Draft Orders

Excel Sheet Name

Draft Orders

Columns Available For Export And Import

Base Columns

Column Allowed Values Description / Example Value
ID Number ID is automatically generated number by Shopify to identify the item.
It is filled in by an Export.
When creating new Draft Orders, leave this value empty.

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Name Text Name of the Draft Order.

Shopify is always generating its own Draft Order name and doesn’t allow you to assign any specific custom Name to it.

Anyway, when you create new Draft Orders, you need to specify any unique Name for each Draft Order so that the app can distinguish which rows belong to which Draft Order.

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Command
  • NEW
  • UPDATE
  • REPLACE
  • DELETE
 When importing Draft Order, it tells the app, what to do with it.

  • NEW: will try to create a new Draft Order with the provided details. If such Draft Order will already exist (with the same ID or same Name), the Draft Order creation will fail.
  • UPDATE: Allows to update some of the existing Draft Order attributes. Here is the list of what can be updated.
  • REPLACE: at first, if such Draft Order with provided ID or Name exists, then the app will delete it. After that, it will create a new one. If an existing Draft Order will not be found, then still the app will create a new Draft Order.
  • DELETE: the app will delete the existing Draft Order, which is found by ID or Name. If such Draft Order will not be found, then this item import will fail. This DELETE command can be very handy when Draft Orders need to be deleted in bulk, or when such Draft Orders need to be deleted, which cannot be deleted through the Shopify Admin.
REPLACE
Order ID
 Number ID of the real Order which was created from this Draft Order.

If this cell is filled, this means that the real Order exists from this Draft Order.

If this cell is empty, this means that real Order is not yet created.

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Status
  • open
  • invoice_sent
  • completed
 Only exported – shows the current status of the Draft Order.

Possible values are:

  • open: Draft Order is created but it doesn’t have an invoice sent, and no real order was yet generated. All importable fields can be updated at this stage.
  • invoice_sent: invoice was sent to the customer of this Draft Order. All importable fields can be updated at this stage.
  • completed: real Order was created from this Draft Order. You can see the ID of the real Order in the “Order ID” column. Only Tags can be updated – any other fields cannot be updated anymore.

To change the Status, you need to use the respective command columns “Send Invoice” and/or “Complete“.
Note Text Draft Order notes.

Can be a large text going over several lines.

Here I can write any notes I need for the Draft Order.
Tags Comma Separated List Tags allow you to add additional elements or “properties” to your order, which you can use for filtering in Admin.

If Draft Order is in “complete” status, Tags is the only field which can be updated.

Urgent, To Review
Created At Date & Time This column will only be exported.

It will be automatically set to the time when the Draft Order was actually created. When migrating from another store, this time will always be the time of migration.

2018-02-06 23:03:00 UTC
Updated At Date & Time This column will only be exported.

It will be automatically updated, whenever you change the Draft Order data.

2018-02-06 23:03:00 UTC
Currency Currency code in ISO 4217 format Currency of the Draft Order.

USD
Weight Total grams Total weight of the ordered items, in grams.

Calculated automatically from Line Items.

Only exported.

4000
Price: Subtotal Currency Value of the order, including discounts, but before shipping and taxes.

Only exported.

1000
Tax 1: Title
Tax 2: Title
Tax 3: Title
 Text Title of each applied tax.

Each Draft Order can have up to 3 different taxes applied, therefore all those are split into separate tax columns.

Only exported. To import Taxes – fill those for the Line Items.

VAT
Tax 1: Rate
Tax 2: Rate
Tax 3: Rate		 Number The rate of the tax applied.

Only exported. To import Taxes – fill those for the Line Items.

0.21
Tax 1: Price
Tax 2: Price
Tax 3: Price
 Currency The calculated tax in the Draft Order currency.

Only exported. To import Taxes – fill those for the Line Items.

210.00
Tax: Included
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
 Tells whether the Draft Order subtotal has taxes included or not.

Cannot be updated, can be only set when creating a new or replacing the Draft Order.

TRUE
Tax: Total Currency Total amount of the tax applied to the Draft Order.

300.43
Price: Total Currency Total amount of the Draft Order, including line items, discounts, shipping cost, and taxes.

1300.43
Additional Details Lines of “name: value” Additional details collected on the Draft Order from the customer – either from the product page or from the checkout page.

Each added property will be shown as “<name>: <value>”, and will include all of those properties as several lines inside the Excel cell.

When prepared in the same format, those details also can be imported.

Those are visible in Shopify Admin, on each Order, section “Additional Details”. This section shows only if there are any details added, otherwise it’s not visible there.

Read more about collecting additional data for orders:

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Door code: 1234

Customer Columns

Each Draft Order can have one customer or no customer at all.

When importing Draft Orders with Customer data, Excelify will link them by Email or by Phone to existing customers, or create new Customers if such customer doesn’t exist yet.

If you need to change the fields of existing Customer, you cannot change them through Draft Order – you need to import the update through the Customers sheet.

If you are about to send the invoice to the customer, you can skip filling the customer columns – because the customer who will receive the invoice, will fill their customer data themselves.

Column Allowed Values Description / Example Value
Customer: ID Number Shopify generated Customer ID. If specified existing customer ID from that store, Draft Order will be linked to that customer.

If you don’t have an ID, then leave it empty, and Excelify will link to existing customer by Customer Email or Phone – whichever is found first.

Cannot be updated, can be only set when creating a new order or replacing one.

1234567890
Customer: Email E-mail Customer e-mail.

The app will link to existing store Customer by this e-mail or Phone number if e-mail is empty. If the app will not be able to find existing customer to link to, it will create a new customer.

Shopify is very strong about validating e-mail addresses – it is checking if e-mail actually exists in real life. If you import e-mails and get the error that Email is not valid then first you should check that this e-mail is really correct. If it happens to be some old customer Email which you still need to import then you can move that Email value to Note field and leave this Email field empty.

When updating – will update only contact information on the Draft Order, but will not change the data of the Customer.

[email protected]
Customer: Phone Phone Number Phone number must be full – with the country code and must be valid for the respective country.

You can prefix phone numbers with ‘ (apostrophe) to allow Excel to show the + (plus) sign. But the + (plus sign) is not required.

The app will clean out any non-digit characters from the Phone field.

If e-mail is empty, the app will search existing customer by Phone number – and if will find, then will attach this order to that customer.

To change for an existing Draft Order – change the data of the Customer.

'+15417543000
Customer: First Name Text The first name of the Customer.

To change for an existing Draft Order – change the data of the Customer.

John
Customer: Last Name Text The last name of the Customer.

To change for an existing Order – change the data of the Customer.

Smith
Customer: Note Text Whatever is written on the Customer card, accessible from Shopify Admin.

To change for an existing Order – change the data of the Customer.

Your notes go here.
Customer: Orders Count Number Total count of orders made by this Customer.

Only exported.

100
Customer: State
  • disabled
  • invited
  • enabled
  • declined
 The Customer status – one of those:

  • disabled: customers are disabled by default until they are invited.
  • invited: the customer has been emailed an invite to create an account.
  • enabled: the customer accepted the email invite and created an account.
  • declined: the customer declined the email invite to create an account. If Customer has declined your invitation, you cannot generate new Account Activation URL.

To change for an existing Draft Order – change the data of the Customer.

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Customer: Total Spent Amount Total amount the customer has spent at the moment of the export.

Only exported.

1024.99
Customer: Tags Comma Separated List Tags allow you to add additional elements or “properties” to your Customer, which you can use for filtering, for developing some additional logic for those Customers in your Store Theme.

To change for an existing Draft Order – change the data of the Customer.

Friend, Migrated
Customer: Accepts Marketing
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
 Whether Customer accepted that he can be sent Marketing e-mails.

To change for an existing Draft Order – change the data of the Customer.

TRUE

Customer Billing Address Columns

All the following fields will be shown in the Draft Order in the Billing Address block. When imported, will be added as one of the addresses for the Customer, too.

Column Allowed Values Description / Example Value
Billing: First Name Text The first name of the Customer in the Billing Address.

John
Billing: Last Name Text The last name of the Customer.

Smith
Billing: Company Text Company name, if the billing address is a company.

Smith Inc.
Billing: Phone Phone Number Phone number to use for this address.

'+15417543002
Billing: Address 1 Text Address 1st line.

Calvin Street 5
Billing: Address 2 Text Address 2nd line.

2nd Floor
Billing: Zip Zip Zip number of the address. Shopify doesn’t check its correctness.

ZIP-1234
Billing: City Text City name. Is not checked, so it’s possible to enter any city name.

Dough
Billing: Province Province Name Province names are checked against Shopify geographic classifier. If provided province will not be valid, then Shopify will accept it, but it will be empty on the customer card.

If you are not sure, what are available values, go to Shopify Admin, edit the Address, and click the drop-down to choose the Province for chosen Country.

If the Province Code is filled, this can be left empty, then Province will be set from there.

Ontario
Billing: Province Code Province Code In Shopify classifier there are Province Codes. If provided province code will not be valid, then Shopify will accept it, but it will be empty on the customer card.

If Province is filled, this can be left empty, then Province will be set from there.

ON
Billing: Country Country Name Country names are checked against Shopify geographic classifier. If the provided country will not be valid, then Shopify will accept it, but it will be empty on the customer card.

If you are not sure, what are available values, go to Shopify Admin, edit the Address, and click the drop-down to choose the Country.

If Country Code is filled, this can be left empty, then Country will be set from there.

Required Country or Country Code. If empty, the address will not be created.

Canada
Billing: Country Code Country Code Country international code, consisting of 2 letters.

If Country is filled, this can be left empty, then Country will be set from there.

CA

Customer Shipping Address Columns

All the following fields will be shown in the Draft Order in the Shipping Address block. When imported, will be added as one of the addresses for the Customer, too.

Those columns are the same, as for Billing Address, just the column name starts with “Shipping: …”, so those will not be repeated here.

Line Item Columns

Each Draft Order must have at least one line item.

Column Allowed Values Description / Example Value
Line: Type
  • Line Item
  • Discount
  • Shipping Line
 Draft Order consists of “Line Items”, where each of them as a certain line type. That allows to group items together in a fashion that can be reconciled with actual draft order data, and most importantly – cross-check that all amounts match.

Some of the line types will have details in the Line Item columns, but some will have details in their own respective columns.

  • Line Item: Draft Order line item.
  • Discount: Discount which is applied to the whole order. A Draft Order can have only one discount line.
  • Shipping Line: Shipping cost of the whole order. A Draft Order can have only one shipping line.
Line Item
Line: Product ID Number ID of the line item Product – if the line item is a product.

Line items can be custom, without a link to the Product, in that case, the Product ID will be empty.

When importing a Draft Order, can have a real product ID from the store. If such ID will not be found in the store (e.g. when copying Draft Orders from another store), then the app will try to match it by “Line: Product Handle” column value.

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Line: Product Handle Text Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: this is the secondary way how to identify the product if it can’t be found by Product ID. It is used in cases when copying Draft Orders from one store to another, which have the same Products – then the right product will be linked to the Draft Order by the Handle.
  • Discount: ignored
  • Shipping Line: Shipping service Handle.
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Line: Title Text Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: the title of the Draft Order line item. When importing, even if the actual linked product will have a different title, the Draft Order line item title will be set to this one.
  • Discount: “percentage” or “fixed_amount”. To set the discount value, see the column “Line: Quantity”.
  • Shipping Line: the shipping title written in free form.
Tshirt With Picture Of Me
Line: Name Text Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: full name of the Draft Order line item, which includes the variant title. Formatted as <product title> – <variant title>. When importing – it will be saved, but will not be visible anywhere on the Draft Order screen.
  • Discount: the free text comment that was written for the discount. If the discount code was used, then it will be here.
  • Shipping Line: the shipping code, usually has value “custom”.
Tshirt With Picture Of Me - Red / XS
Line: Variant ID Number Variant ID of the line item Product variant – if the line item is a product.

In case of the custom line item (not related to a real product), this ID will be empty.

When importing a Draft Order, can have a real variant ID from the store. If such ID will not be found in the store for that product (e.g. when copying Draft Orders from another store), then the app will try to match it by “Line: SKU” column value.

1834691428367
Line: Variant Title Text Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: the title of the product variant included in the line item.
  • Discount: ignored
  • Shipping Line: ignored
Red / XS
Line: SKU Text Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: the SKU of the product variant included in the line item.
  • Discount: ignored
  • Shipping Line: ignored
SKU-1234567
Line: Quantity Number Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: the quantity of the line item purchased.
  • Discount: the value of the discount applied. If “Line: Title” is “percentage” then this will be the percentage number. If “fixed_amount” then the value of the fixed amount discount.
  • Shipping Line: ignored
100
Line: Price Currency Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: the price of one line item purchased.
  • Discount: ignored
  • Shipping Line: the price of the shipping applied to the order.
5.49
Line: Discount Currency Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: line item level discount amount. Always expressed as a fixed value, regardless if percentage or fixed amount is used.
  • Discount: the whole Draft Order level discount amount. The amount is negative.
  • Shipping Line: ignored

Amounts in this column are organized so that you can sum all discount column per order, and get the correct total discount value for that Draft Order.

49.00
Line: Total Currency Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: line item total as Quantity * Price + Discount (because Discount is negative).
  • Discount: the whole Draft Order level discount amount total. The amount is negative.
  • Shipping Line: the same as “Line: Price”. Ignored when imported.

Amounts in this column are organized so that you can sum all Line Totals per order, and get the correct total value for that Draft Order.

500.00
Line: Grams Number Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: weight per line item sold in grams (weight of one item). To get the weight of the whole line item – multiply this by “Line: Quantity”.
  • Discount: ignored
  • Shipping Line: ignored
250
Line: Requires Shipping
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
 Has a different value, depending on the Line Type:

  • Line Item: TRUE if the line item requires shipping.
  • Discount: ignored
  • Shipping Line: ignored
TRUE
Line: Vendor Text Vendor name of the product purchased.

Puma
 Line: Properties  Lines of “name: value” Additional details collected on the Draft Order from the customer about the line item – either from the product page or from the checkout page.

Each added property will be shown as “<name>: <value>”, and will include all of those properties as several lines inside the Excel cell.

When prepared in the same format, those details also can be imported.

Those are visible in Shopify Admin, on Draft Order, for each Line Item. Those properties show only if there are any added, otherwise, they are not shown here.

Read more about collecting additional properties for order line items:

Color: Red
Engraving: My Name
Line: Gift Card
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
 TRUE if the line item is a gift card. Can only be exported.

FALSE
Line: Taxable
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
 TRUE if the line item is taxable.

TRUE
Line: Tax 1 Title
Line: Tax 2 Title
Line: Tax 3 Title		 Text Title of each applied tax.

Each order can have up to 3 different taxes applied, therefore all those are split into separate tax columns.

VAT
Line: Tax 1 Rate
Line: Tax 2 Rate
Line: Tax 3 Rate		 Decimal Number The rate of the tax applied.

0.21
Line: Tax 1 Price
Line: Tax 2 Price
Line: Tax 3 Price		 Currency The calculated tax in the order currency.

105.00
Line: Fulfillable Quantity Number The quantity of the line item that is still left to be fulfilled.

Only exported. For import this is calculated from actual line items.

50
Line: Fulfillment Service
  • manual
  • amazon
  • shipware
  • <other privider handle>
 Service provider handle who is doing the fulfillment.

To find out the handle, easiest is to enter one through the Shopify Admin, and then look in the export file.

If empty, will be assumed as “manual” by default.

Invoice Columns

You can instruct the Shopify to send an invoice for the Draft Order to the customer – by importing those invoice columns.

Column Allowed Values Description / Example Value
Send Invoice
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
 If setting this to TRUE, it tells the Excelify app to send the invoice for this Draft Order.

The link received by the customer will take them to the Checkout page. Once they will complete the checkout, the Draft Order will get completed – it will create the real Order.

When importing new Draft Order with this set to TRUE, at first the Draft Order is created and instantly the invoice is sent to the customer.
Send Invoice: To E-mail E-mail address of the invoice recipient.

If left empty, the invoice is being sent to the Customer which is the “Customer: Email”.
Send Invoice: From E-mail Sender e-mail address which will show for the customer who received the invoice.
Send Invoice: Bcc E-mail “Blind carbon copy” of the e-mail – which means, additional recipients of the invoice. Their e-mail addresses will not be visible by e-mail receivers, hence the “blind”.
Send Invoice: Subject Text The e-mail subject.

If left empty, the Shopify will put its own default e-mail subject.
Send Invoice: Message Text The message of the invoice e-mail.

HTML code is allowed.

If empty, then the default Shopify e-mail message will be used.

Completion Columns

You can instruct the Shopify to complete the Draft Order – thus making the real Order from the Draft Order.

Column Allowed Values Description / Example Value
Complete
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
 If setting this to TRUE, it tells the Excelify app to generate the real Order from this Draft.

When importing new Draft Order with this set to TRUE, at first the Draft Order is created and instantly the real Order is generated.
Complete: Payment Pending
  • TRUE
  • FALSE
 If setting this to TRUE, the created Order will have the payment status as “Payment Pending”.

If this will be empty or FALSE, then the real Order will not have the payment pending.

Metafields

You can import and export Metafields for Draft Orders the same way as for any other items.

the Read more detailed documentation on Metafields page.

Good To Know

  • If you need to update something beyond that is allowed to update, please use the REPLACE command and replace the whole Draft Order with another – that will allow you to set any data at the moment of draft order creation.
  • To import several line items to Draft Order, just repeat the row with the same ID or Name.
  • When importing Draft Orders from scratch, start by the minimal fields, and grow it up from there, using the REPLACE command.
  • Minimal fields are: Name, Line Item Title, Price and Quantity.