Just noticed new tools to arrange orders in batches in my admin ui.
Curious about the planned roadmap for this concept. Will order batches be a new object? reachable by API eventually?
Hey @Daniel_G , There isn’t a public Admin API surface for order batches today, so apps can’t currently query or mutate batches as their own object.
That said, this is an active area for the fulfillment workflow work in Admin. I can’t commit to roadmap timing or the exact API shape from here, but the concept is more closely tied to batching fulfillment work than just grouping Order records directly.
If you’re open to sharing the workflow you’d want to build around this, that would be really useful context. For example: reading batch membership, creating batches from orders, moving items between batch steps, reporting on batch status, or syncing batches into a WMS/3PL. I can get in touch with some folks internally and see if there’s anything more I can share.
Sounds good.
Our wholesale customers send us multiple purchase orders going to the same warehouses. We enter them separately in admin because each needs separate billing, but often we put together several orders into the same shipment. Particularly when shipping palletized.
So it occurred to me that a batch of orders would be the logical structure for a group of separate orders shipping together to the same location. All docs need to be generated from the aggregated data, not individually per order. (Bill of Lading, commercial invoice, packing list, case labels, etc)
We do have a workflow that suits our needs currently, but if order batches get their api we could take advantage of them and improve our handling of consolidated shipments.