Step based flow stages with meaning

Does anyone know of a way to get useful stage information showing to the user when using the OOTB Step Based Flow?

Whilst it is nice and easy to create a catalog Item and add multiple approvals and tasks, it doesn't update the requestor at all as to what stages their request needs to go through (ie: manager approval, security approval, HR approval, fulfillment task to add part A followed by another fulfillment task to provide part B etc) and certainly doesn't update the requestor at all as each approval or task is requested and completed.

All it gives is -

• Service fulfillment process
• Closed Incomplete
• Completed

Not very helpful when the catalog item has more than 1 step really.

Anyone got an idea/solution other than creating a seperate flow for each catalog item?

Anyone at all?