'order status page' not showing order shipped

[Feemish]

I am in the UK, When I fulfill an order, ship it and send the customer an 'order shipped' email, they receive an email with a link to the 'order status page'.

However, this 'order status page'  never updates beyond 'order confirmed' even after fulfilling the order and sending the order shipped email. It never changes to 'order shipped'

Most of my orders are sent without tracking, but even orders that are sent with tracking (by Royal Mail) and the tracking number and carrier is included in the order details and the email, still do not have an 'order status page' update to show that the order is shipped. It remains on ''We’ve accepted your order, and we’re getting it ready. Come back to this page for updates on your shipment status."

This means I get emails from confused customers saying 'you sent me an email saying the order was shipped.. but the page says you are still getting it ready!'

Support do not seem to appreciate that this is a problem... but it is! Customers think I have not actually shipped the order yet. 

[PluginHive]

Hello @Feemish,

In Shopify, the "Order out for delivery" and "Shipment delivered" notifications will only be sent out when you fulfill orders that have tracking information from USPS, UPS, FedEx, and Canada Post. For other carriers, only the shipping confirmation email will be sent to the customers from Shopify.

As a solution to this issue, you can use the Shipment Tracking & Notify app, which will help you send tracking notifications to your customers whenever there is a change in the order status. The app also allows you to have a "Track Your Order" page within your store, from where your customers can track their orders.

Are you using Parcel Force? Please contact the App support for the integration with Royal Mail / Parcel Force. 

[Feemish]

90% if my orders are of low value and are not shipped with tracked service. They are just sent first class post by Royal Mail.
So I don't believe this app will solve the problem.

I am not using Parcelforce. Just standard Royal Mail.

[PluginHive]

Yes I understand the problem. But, the only way to avoid "We're getting it ready" message is to fullfil the order with the tracking number.

Providing a mechanism for shipments without tracking number is an interesting use case. May be a manual option to update the Shipment status will help the customer to get more accurate shipment status.

Do you think something like this will help you?

[Feemish]

Yes!

It's not just me. Having looked through this forum I can see lots of people are having this issue.

>> But, the only way to avoid "We're getting it ready" message is to fullfil the order with the tracking number.<<

To be clear.. that doesn't work in all cases either.. you need to not only fulfill the order with a tracking number, but with a tracking number from one of the 4 supported couriers.

I've used tracking numbers from Royal Mail (when I've sent tracked) and this still does not update the page.

[PluginHive]

You can do that from the Themes section.

Head to: Online store > Themes > Actions > Edit Language

Now search for "Confirmed description" in the search box. You can find the edit option to change the Order confirmation status.

Alternatively, We can work with you to support Royal Mail Tracking using Shipment Tracking & Notify App if you are looking for an advanced customization in the "Order status" page. You can create a "Track your order" page as well, where your customers can track their order.

[Feemish]

Thanks again Hari_K,

We seem to be having the same discussion on two thread! oh well..

This doesn't solve the problem. The message will not change from whatever you edit in here to 'order shipped' once it is shipped.

The 'order status' page will not show any updated 'order status' for orders shipped without tracking unless Shopify build some kind of way of manually updating the status for people who ship without tracking.

[PluginHive]

@Feemish 

Yes! Lets close the discussion in this thread.

Here is the link to a similar post: https://community.shopify.com/c/Payments-Shipping-Fulfillment/Order-status-page-not-updating-manual-...

[Pandurangaswamy]

I have ordered an laptop on 14-7-2020  still ther is no reply  that website the order number is #1450 there is no from the shipping status so please send me the website dronopraphi contact number, Thank you 

[TheCraw]

Something is really wrong in my opinion with Shopify on this. I have the same issue when people order none tracked packages and this happens a lot (90% of the time). My packages are small and light but for example if I send to Japan the shipping for non tracked air mail is 10 dollars if I go tracked it is like 50. The product is not expensive enough to justify the extra cost. Also does not really get there faster.

What bugs me is that the Post Office knows the mailing label that Shopify generates for mailing (otherwise someone would just keep using the same mailing label when sending multiple times to the same person) so obviously Canada Post knows the label has been used they have to track that. So between Canada Post and Shopify who communicate why can't they simply flag and put through when the dam label was used instead of as so many people point out never updating and creating the customer emails  of " I checked back on your site and indicates that it is still be processed even after they receive it".

This is a huge issue and the information is there if Canada Post and Shopify would get there act together. Also effects even more so orders that come via the Amazon Channel which is a whole lot of more pain but that it is different discussion.

Regards

[David_Renwick]

First up: OPINION:

In my experience and opinion this is something Shopify needs to address. 

So I've experienced the issue when the status page doesn't change at all if you fulfil without a tacking number - that's UNDISPUTEDLY a bug in the core Shopify product. I assume this could be fixed IF YOU are a ShopifyPlus customer and you get access the theme files that build and control that stuff. Alas - I am not. 

Shopify: What is the point of having an Order Status page that clearly isn't working for this scenario. It's not good enough to say that your users don't ship without tracking information and if you apply the same logic you wouldn't allow that option when fulfilling the orders in the first place but at the same time - ITS ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING YOUR CUSTOMERS DO ALL THE TIME. 

I DO use tracking for all my goods so I can mostly dodge this issue. Typically I ship via Royal Mail. Sadly we don't have any integration because we can't get an account that doesn't have unreasonable minimum quantities (Thank you Royal Mail for being 100% unresponsive and setting a unreasonable minimum yearly quantity - that's a different story altogether)

On occasion I do send un-tracked and it was a surprise to me that the order status page was lacking in this area. Chalking up another longstanding bug to my list here. 

Moving on..

POTENTIAL WORKAROUND:

So you DO get tracking information showing up on the Order Status page (in my limited testing with Royal Mail). Problem is that it shows up under the same dumb message as follows;

"Your order is confirmed

We’ve accepted your order, and we’re getting it ready. Come back to this page for updates on your shipment status."

I've been doing a lot of work with ADDITIONAL SCRIPTS (under - Settings: Order Processing). I spotted early on that the status of the fulfilment for each item is sadly lacking from any of the data available to the script (via the checkout or shop objects. Personally I think that is another bug / problem as it limits what you can do with the additional scripts function (possibly deliberate on Shopify part?? I can't decide). 

Anyway what I ended up doing is setting up an addEventListener and waiting for the "DOMContentLoaded" event and then checking for tell-tale signs that the item was dispatched.. These include:

checking for "os-step__title"

checking for "tracking-info" 

There appear under different scenarios (local delivery and or adding the tracking information to the order).

For my purposes I only need to check if the order has shipped so I don't really need to carry out any further checking / testing in order to know understand the actual current status. However, I think you can deduce this by checking.

document.getElementsByClassName('os-step__title').item(0).innerText;

Where you will see "Your order is confirmed"

I believe this will change accordingly for "other" couriers but alas for Royal Mail - this remains stuck at "Your order is confirmed"....

So I've extended the logic to check for "tracking-info__number" and it's it's included in the document I make some changes like;

document.getElementsByClassName('os-step__title')[0].innerText = "Your order has been dispatched"

document.getElementsByClassName('os-step__description')[0].innerText = "xxxx"

It's a bit of a hack but I think it's working well for me at the moment. Interested in any comments here. 

[TheCraw]

I am 100% agreement with you on this. I ship 90% of my items untracked so
get it all the time. I would suggest an alternate way though at least for
me that I wish they would do.

I generate the mailing label through Shopify directly and I know that
shopify gets information back on that label when it is used by the Post
Office (otherwise you could just create a label and keep using it 100''s of
time) so if you think about this. I have a label with a tracking number
(not for tracking place to place but for it being used) and an order that
knows that number so why they don't connect the two things and mark it when
the mailing label is acknowledged is nuts.

They are lucky that they are one of the only deals in town because there
will be other platforms and hopefully ones that understand shipping better.

Good comment though, don't think you will even see them do anything about
it though.

At the very least you would think when I generate the mailing label through
them at the time of buying it they would mark it sent but they don't even
do that.