When we launched EZ Exporter almost 3 years ago now, it started out as a simple Shopify order exporter app. It only supported CSV format and delivering the exported file to an email address and an FTP/SFTP server.

We've added a lot of features to EZ Exporter since then. In addition to exporting Shopify order data, the app also now supports exporting collections, customers, draft orders, and products. We've also added integrations with Dropbox, Google Drive, and Amazon S3. And …

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We've gotten a few customer questions recently regarding exporting gift card information applied to the Shopify order.

One customer needed to export the last 4 characters of the gift card code that was used to pay for the order and another needed the amount paid by gift card. These data are stored in the order transaction data provided by the Shopify API and our app has functions that can be used in the Calculated Fields to retrieve them, but we …

You can now export the fulfillment location names and IDs at the line item level from your Shopify order data with EZ Exporter.

The fulfillment location IDs had been available at the order level for some time now and but we've recently received a request to be able run sales reports by product and fulfillment location. To do this, we needed to parse the fulfillment data returned by the Shopify API and match them up with the line items …

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