How can I filter orders without certain tags?

Topic summary

A user needs help filtering Shopify orders to exclude those containing any of three specific tags. They want to search for all orders except those tagged with certain values.

The three tags they want to exclude are:

  • o-custom
  • o-preorder
  • o-regular

The user is struggling to figure out the correct search syntax to accomplish this negative filtering in Shopify’s order search interface. No solutions have been provided yet in the discussion.

Summarized with AI on November 13. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

I need to create a search for orders that don’t contain any one of 3 tags. What’s the correct search for this?

example. Show me all orders except those with any of these tags

o-regular

o-preorder

o-custom

and then also search for orders with and one of 3 different tags. You could use the same tags above

I just can’t figure this out

thanks!