Payment status change forfulfillment apps

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

Clarification request on Shopify’s notifications to fulfillment apps regarding payment status changes.

  • Question 1: If an order is created with payment status “pending,” does Shopify send an HTTP POST to the fulfillment_order_notification endpoint used by fulfillment service integrations?
  • Question 2: When the payment status later changes from “pending” to “paid,” does Shopify automatically send another POST to the same endpoint?

Context: fulfillment_order_notification refers to the webhook-style endpoint that informs fulfillment apps about fulfillment-related events; POST is the HTTP request method used to deliver those events. The goal is to understand whether apps are notified at order creation, at payment capture, or both, to avoid premature fulfillment.

Status: No answers or confirmations provided; the thread remains unresolved. No attachments or code snippets involved.

Summarized with AI on January 22. AI used: gpt-5.
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  1. Will shopify send a POST to “fulfillment_order_notification” for fulfillment apps if an order has an original payment status of ‘pending’?

  2. Will shopify send a POST to “fulfillment_order_notification” for fulfillment apps AUTOMATICALLY when a ‘pending’ payment status changes to ‘paid’?