How to Fulfill Part of an Order Manually on Shopify

Fulfillment order is the process of shipping the products to the customers in Shopify. You can choose to fulfill it automatically or manually based on your purposes. For manual fulfillment, you can select to fulfill all products at once or fulfill part of the order. In case one or more of your products are out of stock or the order includes pre-order items, the partial fulfillment is more convenient than the remaining. Therefore, if you wonder how to fulfill part of an order manually on Shopify, keep reading to discover it.

Step 1: Select Orders

After signing in Shopify account, go to Orders in the menu on the left of your screen.

Step 2: Pick an order

The list of all orders will appear that you have to select the one you want to fulfill partially. For example, the picture below describes my orders list and each order is shown in number instead of name. I want to fulfill the order #1001 then I will press on its number.

Step 3: Click on Create shipping label

In the detail page of the order, choose Create shipping label under the Unfulfilled section.

Step 4: Choose number of products to fulfill

The page will move to another one called Fulfillment page then you need to select how many products you want to fulfill in the Items part.

Step 5: Decide shipping method

In the Shipping service, there are a number of shipping providers for you to choose. It also provides their corresponding fee then you can decide what to use.

Step 6: Edit Shipping date

If you want to inform your customer about the shipment immediately, you can tick on the Email shipment details to customers now in the Shipping date section. However, be noted that this option does not work for all cases but appears only when you have your customer’s email address.

Step 7: Press on Buy shipping label

Below the Shipping date is the Summary part, you will see the total amount you have to pay and if you are satisfied with it, click on Buy shipping label button end the process.

How to fulfill part of an order manually for others, not Shopify Shipping use

• Step 1: Select Orders
• Step 2: Pick an order
• Step 3: Click on Marked as fulfilled
• Step 4: Choose quantity of products to fulfill
• Step 5: Fill in the tracking number
• Step 6: Notify customer of shipment
• Step 7: Press on Fulfill items
• Step 8: Choose Add tracking

Step 1: Select Orders

This step is similar to step 1 when you use Shopify Shipping that head to the Orders from the Shopify admin.

Step 2: Pick an order

Look for the order which has fulfillment status as Unfulfilled or Partially fulfilled and press on it to open.

Step 3: Click on Marked as fulfilled

You will see the detailed information of the chosen order appear on your display with the first section is Unfulfilled. Below the unfulfilled items, there is a Marked as fulfilled button then press on that.

Step 4: Choose quantity of products to fulfill

Change the quantity for each product in such a way that the number of the item you don’t want to fulfill is equal to 0.

Step 5: Fill in the tracking number

Enter the tracking number given by your shipping provider in the Tracking information. If you don’t remember, you can leave it to fill in later.

Step 6: Notify customer of shipment

Under the Tracking information, you can see the NOTIFY CUSTOMER OF SHIPMENT section and the option Send shipment details to your customer now. You can choose to tick or untick it based on whether you want to inform your customer or not.

Step 7: Press on Fulfill items

After completing all the above steps, you can click on Fulfill items to finish.

Step 8: Choose Add tracking

In step 5, if you haven’t added the tracking number yet, you can insert it by selecting Add tracking in the Fulfilled section.

Conclusion

In short, that is all about the process of how to fulfill part of an order manually on Shopify. The writing is quite long but it is very easy to understand and informative that it will help you a lot in managing your fulfillment. Hope that you have good experiences and earn benefits from this post.

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