Tag Shopify Orders by Delivery or Ship Date

How to Tag Shopify Orders by Delivery or Ship Date for Fulfilment

Learn how to tag Shopify orders with delivery or ship dates to filter, batch, and automate fulfillment.

Jul 16, 2025

Why This Is Useful

  • Helps operations and fulfillment teams sort orders by date

  • Allows batching for delivery or courier prep

  • Enables Shopify Flow or 3PL workflows to run automatically

How to Set It Up in Flare

  1. Enable order tagging in Flare settings

    • Choose between delivery date, ship date, or both

    • Define tag format (e.g. Delivery-2025-08-07)


  2. Tags appear automatically in Shopify

    • Use filters by tag in Shopify's Orders tab

    • Use Flare's shipping calendar to filter, view and manage orders by each delivery or ship date

    • Export tagged orders to CSV


  3. Automate fulfillment with Shopify, Shopify Flow and other integrations


    • Trigger fulfillment rules based on tag (e.g. send orders with Ship-2025-08-08 to 3PL)

    • Enable Flare's hold and release to automatically release orders at the future ship date

    • Connect fulfillment directly with platforms and 3PLs like ShipStation, Utordo, ShipTheory, DPD, UPS and FedEx


Use Cases:

  • Daily delivery batching

  • Setting order limits

  • Per-date pick and pack schedules

  • Export to calendar or ops board for precise order management

  • Auto-fulfillment by ship date

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