recommended way to fetch newly created FulfillmentOrders

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What is the recommended way to fetch newly created FulfillmentOrders?

there is no “fulfillmentOrders/created” webhook and the “orders/created webhook” doesn’t include them (probably because they must be routed to the correct FF service first). There is the webhook

“fulfillment_orders/order_routing_complete”,

but for some reason, it only includes two fields (id and status); meaning I still have to fetch other fields over a GraphQL/REST API call.

According to this Guide, there should be a new recommended webhook “fulfillment_orders/ready_to_fulfill” in the unstable version of the API. I’ve tried using the unstable version but the webhook doesn’t exist. was it removed? is the Guide outdated?!

https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/fulfillment/order-management-apps/third-party-marketplaces#best-practices

I’m following this Guide to implement the fulfillment orders based workflow.

And my goal is to basically fetch/receive newly created FulfillmentOrders, so that I can start requesting fulfillment on them.

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

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Hi there :waving_hand:

This guide may be closer to what you are hoping to accomplish. This guide is for Order Management Apps.

You will fetch the fulfillment orders with GET https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/{api_version}/orders/{order_id}/fulfillment_orders.json .

And then you can create fulfillments for the fulfillment orders: POST https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/{api_version}/fulfillments.json

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Hi @lizk ,

Thanks for your reply!

I’ve reviewed the provided guide already and it did answer some of my questions. However, one of my concerns remains unanswered – when should I fetch fulfillment orders?

Currently, my approach involves fetching them immediately when an order is created. Basically when an order-created webhook is triggered. But, this Guide (under Best practices) advises against this, and I suspect it’s because a worker needs to create/route the fulfillment orders in the background. This could explain why the Fulfillment Orders are not included in the payload of the order-created webhook?