About order status pages

Customers can visit the order status page to check the progress of their order as it's fulfilled. The order confirmations that you send by email, SMS, or through theShop appcan include a link to the order status page.

The type of notification the customer receives depends on the contact information they enter at checkout. If the customer enters a phone number at checkout, then they receive an order confirmation by SMS. If a customer enters an email at checkout, then they receive an order confirmation by email, followed by order and shipping updates. Order and shipping updates are not sent by SMS. You can give customers who enter a phone number at checkout the choice to opt-in to receive order and shipping updates by email.

If you want to send your customers order status updates by email, then you needset up your email templatesto automatically include a link to the order status page.

You might also considercustomizing your order status page显示特殊notes and messages.

Real-time shipping updates

If you ship through asupported carrier, then the order status updates in real time and the shipment location is shown on a map.

The order status page updates in real time as the status of the shipment changes. Possible statuses are:

• Confirmed- A customer created an order, but you haven't shipped or fulfilled the order yet. This is a good time tocapture payment.
• On its way- Youmarked the order as fulfilled or partially fulfilledin your Shopify admin, and the shipment is in transit.
• Out for delivery- The shipment arrived in your customer's area and will be delivered to your customer soon.
• Delivered- The customer received their shipment.
• Attempted delivery- The carrier attempted to deliver the shipment to the destination address, but was unsuccessful.

If you use an unsupported shipping carrier, then the order status page has a tracking number that links to the shipping carrier's website. From the carrier's website, your customers can get more information about the status of their order. The order status isn't displayed, and the pin on the map doesn't update in real time.

Orders with multiple shipments or carriers

订单状态页面使用partial fulfillments, even if they're made through different shipping carriers. Shopify creates new sections on the order status page for multiple fulfillments.

Customer privacy

Although the link to the order status page seems like a publicly accessible URL, your customers' shipping and billing addresses are safe, and aren't visible to anyone else.

When someone accesses an order status page from a device other than the one used to complete the checkout, there is a login requirement to secure the customer's information. To access the page, your customer needs two credentials:

• the order number (which they can retrieve in their emails)
• the email address used to complete the checkout

Your customers can share their order status page to let friends know about their purchases. When customers share the order status page, it doesn't show private information like payment method or addresses.

View an order status page

You can visit a customer's order status page from your Shopify admin.

Steps:

1. From theOrderspage, open the order that you want to track.
2. ClickMore actions>View order status page.