Need help creating a workflow - Monthly payment, Quarterly fulfillment

[winningbynoon]

Hello experts,

Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can create a workflow so I can skip fulfillment on certain months?

We require payment every month (Monthly subscription product), but we only need to fulfill every 3 months (quarterly).

If there is a way to create a workflow where we can add tags on the orders if it's up for fulfillment or not.

Ex. 

If customer subscribed on 11/01, he will be charged monthly on 12/01, 01/01, 02/01, and so on. But we do not need to fulfill 12/01 and 01/01.

[paul_n]

Not enough info to answer this question. How are you fulfilling these now? 

[winningbynoon]

Currently, we're doing manual fulfillment for all orders every quarter (extracting all subscriptions and loading that into Zenventory). But we're implementing new changes for next year where we want to have each order fulfilled based on the subscription date.

[paul_n]

Pretend like you are hiring an external developer to build a mini app for you. They need to know a lot of more. 

Flow can call basically any Shopify API at this point, so the main thing to figure out is:
- When would you trigger a workflow to run?
- What API needs to be called to fulfill or skip a fulfillment

I see this API, which allows skipping a billing cycle. I'm not sure how that would affect fulfillment https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/2024-10/mutations/subscriptionBillingCycleSkip