Create Orders with Shopify

The Create Order tool is a simple scan-to-order tool that creates a pickup order from scanned products. The tool can help you quickly create orders for in-person or phone sales, at any of your Shopify locations. Created orders will have default taxes applied for the location where the order is made.

Scanning Barcodes

Create Order – Locations and Scan

To begin scanning, select the pickup location from the locations dropdown. Next, click in the Scan Barcode input area. Any item scanned should result in a scanned item row in the area below.

The barcodes being scanned to not need to come from the generated barcodes from the barcodes and label management tool included with the ScanWay app. Barcodes can be any code that is readable by your scanner. The scanned symbol will appear temporarily in the Scan Barcode input area after it is scanned.

The scanned values will be matched with your store’s product and variant SKU or barcode values. The barcode field can scan with any values including UPC, EAN or ISBN values.

Adding More Products

Create Order – Scanned Items

In cases where more than one item is in an order, you can increase the number of items in the order in two ways. If you adjust the number of orders in the Order Quantity field, the number will be updated to that count. Alternatively, you can scan multiples of the same item, and each subsequent scan will increase the quantity by 1.

Creating the Order

Create Order – Create Order Options

Once you’re done scanning items, click the Submit Order button to create the order in Shopify. If you need the order to be opened and completed, check the Open and Complete Draft Order checkbox before submitting. Otherwise, the order will be created as a draft order. A message will appear after the order is created with possible followup actions you may want to take.

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Hopefully this article has inspired you to make improvements to your inventory management systems. If you’re interested in reading more, check out our blog here, or try out the apps today. The ShopifyEcwid by Lightspeed and BigCommerce versions of the app come with a 1 week free trial, so you can test them out, hassle free!

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