Shopify Order Management & Delivery (2024)

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Boost profits with the best rates Save up to 44% on shipping rates How businesses like yours manage, fulfill, and deliver orders with Shopify Efficiently manage and ship orders Keep tabs on your inventory Create a great post-purchase experience Efficiently manage and ship orders Keep tabs on your inventory Create a great post-purchase experience Featured Merchants PILGRIM WOLFpak Snarky Tea ANIÁN Streamline and speed up fulfillment Smart order routing End-to-end automation Customized order management Say goodbye to over and underselling Keep customers coming back Self-serve returns Retain more revenue with exchanges Built-in marketing tools All features Order management and fulfillment Order management Smart order routing Order index Fulfillment automations Bulk printing and fulfillment Custom saved views Order editing Draft orders Manage subscriptions Order analytics Order notifications Local delivery and pickup Split and merge Marketplace Connect Inventory management Inventory tracking Multi-location inventory Purchase orders Transfers Inventory automations Bulk inventory editor Adjustment reasons Inventory reports Shopify app Unavailable inventory Shipping and delivery Shipping rates Shipping carriers Shipping labels Shipping insurance Shipping label automations Presets Packaging Local delivery and pickup Shipping Analytics Shipping labels page Returns and refunds Customer self-serve returns Return rules Return policy Return management Exchanges Refunds Return status Return reports Sell more products with these additional tools Analytics and reporting B2B on Shopify Start selling with Shopify today

Order management and delivery

From deep discounts on shipping to centralized order management—it’s all included in your Shopify plan.

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Buy shipping labels

Purchase and print discounted labels, negotiated by Shopify.

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Fulfill your orders

Streamlined order fulfillment, no matter where you sell.

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Manage your inventory

Easy, accurate, seamless and real-time inventory control.

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Process your returns

Make the returns experience seamless for customers.

Shopify Shipping

Boost profits with the best rates

That’s why 125+ million shipping labels are purchased on Shopify every year.

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Save up to 44%
on shipping rates

Shopify Shipping negotiates industry-leading rates with top carriers like Sendle. Enjoy unlimited labels included in your Shopify plan.

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We are saving an average of $25,000 per month with Shopify Shipping. That's about $305,000 per year on shipping costs.

  • Snarky Tea
  • Jenni-Lyn Williams — Founder and CEO
  • Read the case study

How businesses like yours manage, fulfill, and deliver orders with Shopify

There’s no need for countless sheets and systems. You can fulfill every order from your admin with Shopify’s built-in capabilities.

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Efficiently manage and ship orders

Manage orders from your online store and sales channels like Instagram, Google, and Amazon, and ship products locally and internationally.

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Keep tabs on your inventory

Track, manage, and replenish inventory from across all your locations and channels from one spot.

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Create a great post-purchase experience

Win customers with real-time tracking, flexible return policies, and self-serve returns.

Efficiently manage and ship orders

Manage orders from your online store and sales channels like Instagram, Google, and Amazon, and ship products locally and internationally.

Keep tabs on your inventory

Track, manage, and replenish inventory from across all your locations and channels from one spot.

Create a great post-purchase experience

Win customers with real-time tracking, flexible return policies, and self-serve returns.

Featured Merchants

Meet the brands putting
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PILGRIM

Tools used

  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (10)Order management
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  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (12)Fulfillment
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I like the simplicity—everything is in one place. . . With Shopify, we're making more money per hour with less friction.

PILGRIM — Simon Paquin, Director of Marketing

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Case study

Pilgrim Saves Time Using Shopify to Streamline Order Fulfillment

Discover how Pilgrim saves time and money managing and fulfilling orders using Shopify.

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WOLFpak

Tools used

  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (16)Order management
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (17)Inventory management
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (18)Fulfillment
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (19)Shopify Shipping
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We are saving about $12,000 per month using UPS through Shopify Shipping.

WOLFpak — Michael Henderson, CEO

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Case study

WOLFpak Grows From Lone Wolf to a Pack of Many Thanks to Shopify

Find out how WOLFpak increases order fulfillment accuracy by using Shopify to manage, fulfill and ship orders.

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Snarky Tea

Tools used

  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (23)Order management
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (24)Shopify Shipping
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (25)Fulfillment
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (26)Inventory management
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (27)Return management
It’s truly a game changer and keeps us from having to spend $250+ a month on an outside system.

Snarky Tea — Jenni-Lyn Williams, Founder and CEO

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Case study

Snarky Tea Brews Success With Shopify’s Built-in Order Management and Delivery Solution

Learn how Snarky Tea scaled its fulfillment operations and saved thousands on shipping with Shopify.

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ANIÁN

Tools used

  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (30)Order management
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (31)Inventory management
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (32)Fulfillment
  • Shopify Order Management & Delivery (33)Shopify Shipping
Having one system to track all outgoing inventory makes it easy to see where inventory moves across our supply chain.

ANIÁN — Paul Long, President

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Case study

Efficiency Meets Ethics: ANIÁN's Inventory Management Strategy for Sustainable Fashion

Discover how ANIAN effectively tracks and manages 10,000+ SKUs across its supply chain, from manufacturer to customer.

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Fulfillment

Streamline and speed up fulfillment

With powerful automations and a customizable orders dashboard, Shopify makes fulfilling orders quicker and more cost effective.

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Smart order routing

Whether you're shipping from a few warehouses nearby or dozens around the globe, smart order routing prioritizes the optimal location to help you fulfill orders more efficiently.

Read about order routing on the blog

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End-to-end automation

From flagging high-risk orders to drafting shipping labels, Shopify Flow helps you cut out time-consuming tasks with automated custom workflows.

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Customized order management

Organize orders from any sales channel by customizing columns, filters, sorting, and searching. Save these custom views to fulfill orders faster.

Inventory management

Say goodbye to over and underselling

Increase profitability by optimizing your inventory with real-time syncing across locations and channels. Know what products are in transit from suppliers, what’s in stock, and what’s running low.

Learn more about inventory management

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Post-Purchase

Keep customers coming back

From package tracking to seamless returns, we’re not sure who will love the post-purchase experience more—you or your customers.

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Self-serve returns

Increase brand trust and repeat purchases by letting customers initiate returns. Get visibility into incoming returned products to help inform inventory decisions.

Learn more about self serve returns

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Retain more revenue with exchanges

Create and track product exchanges across your full catalog without leaving Shopify to retain revenue and streamline returns management.

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Built-in marketing tools

Set up upsell and winback email automation in just a few minutes to boost sales and customer engagement.

All features

Order management and fulfillment

Order management

Manage orders with Filter, sort, search, tag and add notes. Keep track of delivery status, making it easy to follow up on failed or delayed deliveries.

Smart order routing

Use different criteria to prioritize and allocate orders to the optimal location with order routing, whether you fulfill from your own locations, use a 3PL, or both.

Order index

View all your orders in one place. Organize orders based on criteria that help you fulfill and ship them sooner, such as delivery destination and method, fulfillment status, product SKUs, and more.

Fulfillment automations

Save time and reduce errors by automating and streamlining fulfillment processes with Shopify Flow, a workflow automation tool.

Bulk printing and fulfillment

Create, buy, and print multiple shipping labels, packing slips, and custom forms at once. Use bulk actions to fulfill, request fulfillment, or cancel multiple orders at the same time.

Custom saved views

Filter, sort, and select relevant columns for your order index so it’s custom to your business. Save your preferred views so they’re ready the next time you access your orders.

Order editing

Make your customer experience easy to manage and make fewer fulfillment mistakes with the ability to edit any order before it’s shipped.

Draft orders

Create orders and invoices from anywhere that can be emailed to your customers and paid for online or in person.

Manage subscriptions

Run your entire subscription business with apps that are built for Shopify.

Order analytics

Use the Orders page to gather real-time insights. Always know how many orders are placed, open, fulfilled, delivered, and returned.

Order notifications

Give customers real-time visibility of their orders. Send order updates to customers automatically with the Shop app or via email with branded order notification emails.

Local delivery and pickup

Allow local customers to choose between local delivery or in-store pickup at checkout, and easily manage those orders directly from your admin.

Split and merge

Use split and merge to fulfill partial orders, fulfill items across multiple locations, and break large orders into multiple shipments.

Marketplace Connect

Connect, manage, and fulfill orders effortlessly across Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Etsy. Expand your reach and boost sales with a single app that synchronizes listings, orders, inventory, and performance metrics.

Inventory management

Inventory tracking

Accurately track and manage on hand, available, committed, unavailable, and incoming stock quantities in one place.

Multi-location inventory

Efficiently allocate inventory across up to 1000 warehouses, fulfillment centers, and stores.

Purchase orders

Track incoming inventory, get insight into your spending, and make better ordering decisions by creating purchase orders for your suppliers.

Transfers

Move inventory between warehouses and sales locations.

Inventory automations

Use Shopify Flow to automate inventory management tasks. Hide products on your site when they’re out of stock, get notified when inventory is low, and more.

Bulk inventory editor

Edit, customize, and manage inventory for multiple products across fulfillment locations at once with bulk editing actions.

Adjustment reasons

Assign adjustment reasons to track changes to your inventory. Provide reasons such as “Damaged” or “Returned” to identify non-sellable items.

Inventory reports

Report on inventory quantities and understand the value of your inventory.

Shopify app

Use the built in scanner to track and count quantities, receive transfers from suppliers and locations, and manage your inventory on your mobile device.

Unavailable inventory

Easily mark inventory as unavailable for sale and categorize it as Damaged, undergoing Quality Control, held as Safety Stock, or for other specified reasons.

Shipping and delivery

Shipping rates

Choose the shipping strategy, model, and pricing that works for your business and easily integrate it with Shopify Shipping or with your existing provider directly in Shopify.

Shipping carriers

Shopify Shipping offers pre-negotiated rates and built-in integrations with trusted local and international carriers such as UPS, USPS, DHL Express, Canada Post, and more.

Shipping labels

Use Shopify Shipping to purchase and print up to 100 labels in bulk and work more efficiently.

Shipping insurance

Get $200 embedded insurance against damage, loss, and theft with each eligible label bought through Shopify Shipping.

Shipping label automations

Save time by setting up workflows to auto-draft shipping labels.

Presets

Apply a set of saved attributes to multiple orders at once, so you can save time and effort when buying shipping labels.

Packaging

Save packaging preferences for each carrier and fulfill orders more quickly with automatic package suggestions.

Local delivery and pickup

Let local customers choose local delivery or in-store pickup at checkout.

Shipping Analytics

Optimize your shipping strategy with a deeper understanding of shipping costs and total savings over time.

Shipping labels page

Use the shipping labels page to keep track of labels purchased and printed, create manifests, schedule carrier pickups, and track delivery status by label.

Returns and refunds

Customer self-serve returns

Let customers initiate returns from your online store and get visibility into incoming returned products.

Return rules

Set up a custom return window, restocking fees, and product-based and final-sale exceptions with return rules to avoid ineligible returns.

Return policy

Create a flexible return policy and display it clearly on your checkout footer to limit unnecessary returns and refunds.

Return management

Easily create returns, track shipping, restock inventory, manage return fees, and send automated customer notifications.

Exchanges

Create, track, and manage exchanges for any order in Shopify across your full product catalog.

Refunds

Issue partial or full refunds on canceled or returned orders.

Return status

Keep track of the status of returns and see in progress and completed returns directly in the Orders tab.

Return reports

Use reports to understand which products sell best and which get returned most often.

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Analytics and reporting

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