On using flow to create an order

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Hi all, will flow support an action of creating an order?

The use case is creating an order with free product.

I just took a quick look and seems the admin api action cannot perform orderCreate mutation yet.

Thanks!

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I think adding a free item to an existing customers order is the more usual pattern here, would that work for you?
Creating a new order means potential inefficiencies when shipping it alongside other items and also deciding which of the customers addresses to ship to :slight_smile:

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Looks like orderCreate was added in 2024-10 and Flow is on 2024-07 (but soon to move to 2024-10).

In 2024-07, to create an order, you create a draft order and then “complete” it to create an order.

But what Jordan says is true…if you just need to add a line item to an existing order, do that instead. WAY simpler

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