When importing orders, it's important to link the line items on your orders to the products you have set up in your Shopify admin.  Shopify does this for you when orders are purchased from your cart.   When creating orders from external sources, you may want to match the line item on your orders to its product.

EZ Importer allows you to do this by the product and variant ID or the product SKU.  With our latest release, you can now …

With our latest release of EZ Importer, you can add PO Numbers to your order and mark orders tax-exempt.

Add PO Numbers To Your Orders

There is a new field, po_number, on the Order Details tab of your data mapping.  You can map this field to the column in your file with your PO Number.  This field was recently added to Shopify's Order API and is currently displayed on the orders timeline (although this could change in the future).   …

Today, we're excited to announce that EZ Fulfill now has built-in templates to make it easier to get started.  If you're familiar with EZ Exporter and EZ Importer, then you've had experience with our built-in template system and are probably familiar with how much time this feature could save you.

You can download the template file, which will be in CSV or Excel format (depending on the template you are using), or use the template to create a data feed.  …

EZ Importer, our Shopify app that allows you to import orders from CSV files to Shopify, now allows you to add order Metafields to your orders.  Adding Metafields to your order is a configuration option similar to the way you replace values in your file or if you want to add default fields.

Data Mapping Configuration

To add Metafields to your order, open the Metafields Configuration section of your data mapping and add the Metafield you want to add, …

You can now release orders on hold using EZ Fulfill.  Releasing orders can be done by enabling the Release Orders On Hold Data Feed configuration.  We've set this up as a configuration as some merchants may not want orders released based on the presence of the order in their uploaded file.  

Configuring Orders To Be Released

Releasing orders that are on hold in your Shopify admin is straightforward.  Go to the Data Feed you're using to fulfill your orders …