Link product metafield to Orders -section

[Kjankko-US]

Hello,

We are adding a metafield called "shelf location" to our products. This would make finding the product on the shelf easier when picking orders.

How can we add a metafield to a product that will also be visible with the order in Shopify admin?

Practically speaking, when an order comes in, the packer can see the shelf location of the product on the "Orders" page?

SKU and barcode are already reserved for another purpose.

Do you have any other suggestions for implementing this?

[Sajat]

Hi @Kjankko-US ,

Welcome to Shopify Community.

You can add a metafield, name Shelf Location on variants of the products.

Then, you can add specific shelfs on each variants.

When you receive an order for the variants, you can click on the product and view the shelf data on meta field section (named: Shelf Location in this case).

Is that what you were looking for?

Please let me know if it was something else that you were looking for.

Thank you.

Sajat

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[Kjankko-US]

I added a variant metafield, named "Shelf location".

What should I do to make that Shelf location (=15 106) – visible in the "Orders" section (i.e. "Order note")?

[Kjankko-US]

Forgot to tag you @Sajat.

[wo]

You can find it in the file related to the product page, which may be main-product.liquid or buy-button.liquid
{%- form 'product',
product,
id: product_form_id
-%}
{%- endform %}
Add the code.

{%- form 'product',
product,
id: product_form_id
-%}

<input type="hidden" name="properties[location]" value="{{ product.metafields.custom.shelft_location}}"/>


{%- endform %}

[Kjankko-US]

@wo What does this script do?

[wo]

This code will make the shelf location you filled in appear in the product attributes of the order.

[Kjankko-US]

Okay, that would be great.

What if I don't have that code on my theme? Is there any other place in the product-template where it can be added?

{%- form 'product',
product,
id: product_form_id
-%}
{%- endform %}