Automating Shopify Fulfillment Network tasks with Flow

Shopify Flowis a free ecommerce automation platform that allows you to automate tasks and processes within your Shopify store and across your apps. You can use Shopify Flow to automate certain tasks between your Shopify Admin and Shopify Fulfillment Network (SFN). You caninstall Flowfrom the Shopify App Store, orcontact SFNto receive access.

Setting up Flow workflows for SFN

You can automate common tasks done in Shopify bycreating workflowsin Flow that have triggers, conditions, and actions. To optimize how you use Shopify and SFN, you can set up many常见的我们rkflowsusing Flow. For example,low inventory notificationsorplacing an order on hold.

Due to the way that SFN processes orders, some workflows can cause disruptions between Shopify and SFN. Avoid setting up the following workflows in Flow:

• Workflows that delay payment capture for orders in Shopify.
• Workflows that modify orders assigned to SFN after fulfillment delay. For example, adding items to an order.

Create a workflow for low inventory notifications

Low inventory notification workflows help keep your SFN inventory in stock. When your total inventory levels are starting to run low, this workflow lets you receive notifications outside of your Shopify admin. For example, notifications can be sent to Slack or as an email message.

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. ClickBrowse templates.

6. SelectInventory and Merch, and then selectGet notified when product variant inventory is low.

7. ClickInstall.

8. Optional: If you want the inventory notification to apply only for a specific product, then you canadd the product as a criteria.

9. To start using your workflow, switch the toggle fromOfftoOn.

Create a workflow to hold high risk or high value orders

Hold order workflows allow you to place an order on hold so that you can review the order before a fulfillment request is sent to SFN. Workflow templates are available that will place an order on hold based on either the order risk level, or the total order value.

For total order value, the default amount is set to 1000 USD. You can adjust this value to an amount that makes sense for your business.

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. ClickBrowse templates.

6. Select所有, and then selectHold fulfillment based on risk levelor selectHold Fulfillment based on Total Order Value.

7. ClickInstall.

8. Edit the template as needed.

9. To start using your workflow, switch the toggle fromOfftoOn.

Add an item as a Flow workflow criteria

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

2. From theApps and sales channelspage, clickShopify Flow.

3. ClickOpen app.

4. Click the workflow that you want to edit.

5. ClickCheck if, and then clickAdd criteria.

6. Add the criteria that you want to use for selecting your items.

   • If you want to add a single item, then clickProduct Variant, and then clicksku. In theSkubox for the criteria that you just created, enter the SKU information.
   • If you want to add a product with variants, clickProduct, and then clicktitle. In theTitlebox for the criteria that you just created, enter the product title.

7. Click anywhere outside of the input to confirm.

8. ClickApply changes, and then clickApply.