Hello, please consider adding %orderid% and %orderemail% to the email headers and footers, and %orderemail% to the status email body.

With some javascript, it's possible to populate the order status form (from the querystring) and trigger the submit.
Then in our emails we could have something like
Please check the status of your order anytime at the order status page here https://www.mysite.com/orderstatus.asp?ordid=%orderid%&email=%orderemail%

The result would send them to something like the link in my profile (link is to our development site)