I am trying to establish if it is possible to query for Orders resources that match metafield values. I know that I can query single order using orderByIdentifier query ( Working with custom IDs ) and I tried that and it succeeds. However, I need a solution to query for multiple values of a single me…

This is impossible at the moment.

Hi Leon, From digging into this - it does seem that this isn’t currently possible. I’ve connected with the custom data team to see if there is a plan for this ability to be available in the future. The only workaround I can think of is to query all orders along with their metafields and then indepe…

Thanks. I will need to resort to free-format tags as a workaround.

Searching Orders by metafield values using GraphQL

GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting

madfcat October 3, 2025, 1:56pm 5

It works in 2025-07but there is a bigger problem with graphql query using order query by metafield giving loose results.

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Searching Orders by metafield values using GraphQL

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