Order Fulfillment - API Question

Technical Q&A
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We are a 3PL and I’m working on creating an App to automatically pull orders to our WMS, confirm fulfillment and then update inventory quantities. Building a Fulfilment Service seems like the best option.

I have successfully Created a Fulfillment Service
My Location displays under App Locations
I am able to assign inventory to my App Location
I create a test order and it is assigned to my App Location

I never Receive fulfillment requests to the URL i configured.
I used GraphQL to request the first 10 assignedFulfillmentOrders and my order did not display.
If I go back to the Order, I can select “Request Fulfillment” and then my order moves to In Progress. If I request the assignedFulfillmentOrders via API, the order now displays.

Is there a way to automate this without affecting other locations?

If I go to Settings > General > Order Processing, I can update the account to “Automatically fulfill the order’s line items”. When I do this, it automatically does the step above, which is what I want. The problem is that my customer has other locations that are not App Locations and it automatically fulfills them. I do not want this.

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Hi @MonicaG10 :waving_hand: the logistics apis can be a bit byzantine so off the top of my head you’ll probably have to go through fulfillmentOrderSubmitFulfillmentRequest - GraphQL Admin and or need to either use:
assignedFulfillmentOrders > FULFILLMENT_UNSUBMITTED to get the locations orders
or also need to be an order management app??

Also recheck the docs and look over the fulfillment status labrythn map; or print it out even.
:bomb: Note that shop.assignedFulfillmentOrders was deprecated to QueryRoot.assignedFulfillmentOrders

Alternatives to automate fulfillment requests

In some cases Fulfillment constraints may be applicable

Or set the merchant up with a automation using flow in shopify-flow(free app) to set fulfillment status for orders that meet the criteria; there is an app integration for flow
Or other automation apps like mechanic e.g. https://tasks.mechanic.dev/?q=auto-fulfill

If this doesn’t move the project forward I’d cross post this on the dev forums ,