I don't understand what FullfillmentOrders means to me

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Hi all,

I received an email recently telling me I needed to migrate from the Fulfillments API to the FulfillmentOrders workflow. Folks, I’m a simple person and I do one simple thing on Shopify - I sell keys to digital software. I implement my fulfillment (key creation and emailing) in a totally separate cloud function that retrieves a list of unfulfilled orders with a query to /admin/api/2019-10/orders.json (I know, old api version), and a bit later I mark those orders as fulfilled (by posting to “orders/{order.Id}/fulfillments.json”).

I don’t have the time to study inventory management or learn sophisticated fulfillment patterns. Can someone point me to a reasonably succinct explanation of what I need to do in order to keep operating my simple business?

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Since you have the orders, you can get a list of fulfillment orders for an order using this API:
https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/2023-01/resources/fulfillmentorder#get-orders-order-id-fulfillment-orders

You can then create fulfillments for those fulfillment orders using:
https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/2023-01/resources/fulfillment#post-fulfillments

This is covered in detail here:

https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/fulfillment/order-management-apps/manage-fulfillments