Creating draft shipping labels automatically using Shopify Flow

You can use Shopify Flow to create draft shipping labels automatically.

Before you begin, verify that theShopify Flow appis installed in your store.

After you install Shopify Flow, you can install and edit apre-made template, orcreate your own workflowmanually.

Learn more about Shopify Flow.

Creating a workflow manually

You can create a Shopify Flowworkflowmanually to automatically prepare draft shipping labels. When an order is ready for fulfillment in your store and meets the conditions that you set, draft shipping labels are automatically prepared for that order.

If this is your first time using Shopify Flow, you might want to start byusing a templateinstead of creating one manually.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, clickSettings>Apps and sales channels.

2. From theApps and sales channelspage, clickShopify Flow.

3. ClickOpen app.

4. ClickCreate workflow.

5. ClickSelect a trigger, and then select theOrder ready to fulfilltrigger.

6. ClickOutputto create a new step.

   1. ClickCondition.
   2. Select theconditionthat must be met before any actions can be run.

7. ClickThento select the action to be taken if the condition you set is true.

   1. ClickActions.
   2. Select thePrepare shipping labelsaction.

8. Optional: Select thepackageto use when creating the shipping label from a list of your saved packages.

9. Optional: Enter the total weight of the package, including the weight of the package the order is sent in and the contents inside.

10. Select a shipping service from the list of available services.

11. Optional: ClickOtherwiseto add additional conditions or actions to your workflow if the condition that you set is false.

12. ClickNew Workflow, and then enter a title for your workflow.

13. To start using your workflow, clickTurn on workflow.

Creating a workflow using a template

Templates are pre-made Shopify Flowworkflowscreated by Shopify that you can customize and use. Several templates are available to automatically prepare draft shipping labels:

• Prepare draft shipping labels for orders
• Prepare draft shipping labels for orders fulfilling from the United States
• Prepare draft shipping labels for orders fulfilling from Canada
• Prepare draft shipping labels for orders fulfilling from Australia
• Prepare draft shipping labels based on product
• Prepare draft shipping labels based on weight
• Prepare draft shipping labels based on customer's shipping method

Review and purchase shipping labels

When a draft shipping label is prepared for an order by a workflow, theAutomationtag is applied to the order and a notification appears in the order timeline. The orders appear in the newAutomationsorder viewin theOrderspage.

To view theAutomationsorder view, go in your Shopify admin toOrdersand clickAutomations. This view includes theLabel statuscolumn, which indicates one of the following for each order:

• No label- a label was voided or no label has been created for this order
• Draft created- a draft label has been created for this order
• Partially purchased- one or more labels have been purchased, but not all fulfillments for this order have labels
• Purchased- all fulfillments for this order have labels purchased
• Printed- all purchased labels have been printed

TheAutomations如果你命令视图不能自动恢复delete it. If you delete theAutomationsorder view, then you can recreate it.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go toOrders.
2. ClickFilterand then selectTagged with.
3. ClickSelect valueand then enterAutomation.
4. ClickColumnsand then selectLabel status.
5. ClickSave as, enter a name for the order view, and then clickSave view.

Review and purchase shipping labels individually

Before you purchase a shipping label, ensure that you've reviewed the process ofbuying a shipping label.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go toOrders.
2. Optional: ClickAutomations.
3. Click the order.
4. ClickCreate shipping label.

Review and purchase shipping labels in bulk

You can buy and print up to 20 shipping labels at a time from theOrderspage in your Shopify admin. If you're in the United States, then you can buy and print up to 50 labels at a time. Before you purchase shipping labels, ensure that you review the orders and are familiar with the process ofpurchasing shipping labels in bulk.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go toOrders.
2. Optional: ClickAutomations.
3. Select the checkbox next to each order that you want to create a shipping label for.
4. ClickCreate shipping labels.