Can Shopify integrate weather forecasts into customer orders?

[Fish-Tank]

Hello,

I am in the tropical fish industry and we sell our fish online using the Shopify platform. Does Shopify have an app that can integrate weather forecasts into customer orders (EX: based off of zip code). With cooler temps ahead, we are looking for a quicker way to get weather forecasts than doing individual searches for each order going out. Ideas and suggestions are appreciated.

[mabelbrooks]

I don't think there is. But there's a solution, as a Shopify developer, I can easily code a custom section in your Shopify store so you can add the weather forecast to any page of your choice.

[Fish-Tank]

Thank you for your response. 

I should have noted above that in the colder times of year we include heat packs with our orders. The number of heat packs used with a shipment is based off of a temperature range (EX: 49 degrees F to 20 degrees F gets two heat packs ). Anyways, our Shopify store is integrated with ShipStation. We create pull-lists and shipping schedules by exporting info from Shopify orders on ShipStation, creating CSV files. I would need these weather forecasts to be included with each order on the pull-list. I hope that makes sense.

[mabelbrooks]

Yes, it all makes sense and I get your point.

But with this new instruction, just simple coding won't work. At this point, you'd need a custom Shopify app of yours to perform this function and I can help you develop one.

Can I have your store URL for starters?

[Anto_S]

Hi @Fish-Tank

We may be able solve this with a custom solution on the Sheet Master app https://apps.shopify.com/sheet-master. Please send us an email on support@comstack.co and we will set you up with a trial solution.

Thanks

Anto

[Christoph_EG]

Hi @Fish-Tank,

Thank you for sharing this exciting use case here in the Shopify community. 👍 We've included this as a possible enhancement to our Weather Forecast Product Reco App.

If any other merchants have a similar use case, feel free to get in touch here or contact us so we can sharpen up a possible implementation for the app. Many thanks to you in advance. 🤗

[NicholaTGray]

Our company also ships heat sensitive products, and we are looking for an app that can help us use delivery destination heat information to inform shipping method. We would 100% be interested in this capability.

[carltoni]

The WeatherIShip app on Shopify does exactly this!

Checks weather forecast for the destination, and tells you if its safe to ship or not

[carltoni]

Link to WeatherIShip