Shopify Order Routing Functions

With more than one warehouse or store, every order raises a question: which location should ship it? Shopify’s built-in order routing covers the basics, like shipping from the closest location or following a fixed priority list. When your rules are more specific than that, a custom location rule Function makes the decision for you.

Rank locations by your own rules

A location rule looks at the items in an order and ranks the locations that could fulfill them. The ranking can take into account the delivery address, the products, whether it is a business order, and data you keep on each location. For example, you could:

• ship from the location closest to the customer
• keep perishable items to locations with cold storage
• route business orders to your wholesale warehouse
• move orders elsewhere once a location reaches its daily capacity

On Shopify Plus, by request

Custom location rules are a Shopify Plus feature, and Shopify enables the API by request. We help with that request, then build and test the rule against your real orders and locations before it goes live.

Routing and constraints work together

Routing picks the best location from the ones allowed. Fulfillment constraints set the hard limits, like items that must ship together. Most multi-location stores need both.