What's New + What's Coming for Order Automator

June 10, 2025

Author: Joe

Shopify Expert, store owner for 7 years, app developer, former eCommerce marketer and consultant

Order Automator is a high rated Shopify app, recommended by Shopify staff and partners, that automates tasks + expands your store's functionality.

💎 Order Automator is officially Built for Shopify certified. Apps with the Built for Shopify badge are regularly tested and reviewed by Shopify and required to score highly based on these criteria:

Trustworthy
Fast
Easy to use
Useful

Our goal with both is to make your business life easier, save you and your team time, and provide a nice friendly experience when you reach out for help or ideas.

We take feature requests: a lot of the app features came from ideas from our community. Contact us to make a request or see if the app is good for your store.

What's New with Order Automator

Some highlights from the first half of the year:

New custom notification template editor: Big update to the way you can send custom order notifications, use variables, style emails, highly customizable
Use Order Automator to send emails from your domain: Set custom order notifications to send from your domain, using your branding
Use variables in tag rules: Add dynamic tags to orders and customers, based on order data, using tag variables
Attach a PO to notifications: Attach a PDF of the purchase order, just like you see in the Shopify order details page
Various new rule options: We want you to feel confident you can tag and organize orders however you want. If there is a data point our app doesn't track, we do our best to add it on request
Various UI improvements: Nothing too big here yet, mostly improving details + making the UX better for newer users
Backend optimization + performance increase: Boring stuff from your side but keeping the backend processor up to date and improving the system helps make things easier and faster for you

Coming Soon to Order Automator

Sneak peak at the roadmap for the coming months:

Order logging: Look up logs for any order to see order actions (and reason for in-actions)
More custom notification updates: Smart filter to only show items that matched all rule conditions, more customization and trigger options
Daily Jobs: Run jobs every day, week, month, etc. This will replace the Monitor feature with a more powerful, customizable tool
More rule options: More events, more actions, and ability to customize in the app instead of reaching out to support
Add products to order: Configure products to add to the order post checkout, based on order details
Amazon feature updates: We've been talking to users, getting feedback and will be doing a project to improve and add more functionality to the Amazon feature
Faster bulk jobs: We're going to add more customization when running a batch of jobs in bulk, lowering the processing time per order so your jobs finish faster
More UI improvements: We've collected feedback + analyzed UX designs to map out upgrades to make a better experience for you
More feature tutorials: Learn more about what the app can do for you, easier guides for how the features work and what is their potential
Dabbling with AI: We've been experimenting with AI in other / personal projects, will be looking at how we can add value to Order Automator using AI

🧙‍♂️ If you liked this post please check out our apps Order Automator and Product Automator.

✅ They have a suite of tools to automate tasks + extend Shopify functionality, and they're FREE to try. Our mission is to help Shopify stores and the people that work in them save time and money.

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About the Author: Joe

Joe's a 10+ years Shopify partner, certified Shopify Expert, 7 year Shopify store owner, former Shopify optimization agency owner, creator of Order Automator and co-creator of Product Automator. Outside of tech he's into nature adventures, travel, trees, music, books, and art. 🏕🌎🌞

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About Us

We make Shopify apps, custom plugins, and automated solutions.

We also have years of experience working with and managing Shopify stores.

Our goal is to help Shopify stores be more efficient and more successful with smart solutions.

⚙️ Automation Apps for Shopify Stores

Use Order Automator to automate routine Shopify tasks, connect your store to 3rd party marketplaces (Amazon, TikTok, etc), and save you time and money.

It's customizable too, so you can request specific functionality for your store.

Product Automator has a suite of features to help organize your products and collections, increase your conversion rate, and get operational notifications.

It's a newer app so we're adding new functionality every week. Try it now and contact us to make a request or custom tailor a feature to your store.

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Printful is a free Shopify app that allows you to easily create print on demand products to sell in your store.

You can sell mugs, t-shirts, bags, posters, and a lot more, without storing any inventory or doing any shipping.

They ship globally and give you a quick way to add merch and accessories to your online store.

We've personally used Printful (and still use it) and think it's great. ✊

🚚 Recommended Fulfillment Solutions for eCommerce Stores

ShipBob is a 3rd party fulfillment service that connects easily with Shopify, ships worldwide, and has no minimum requirements.

Connect ShipBob to your Shopify store, send inventory, then your orders will get automatically fulfilled.

Available in the US, UK, Canada, Europe, and Australia

Use Amazon FBA to automatically fulfill your Shopify store orders domestically and internationally.

See How to Automate Shopify Order Fulfillment with Amazon MCF / FBA to learn how to set it up.

Using the Order Automator app connected to your Amazon Seller Central account, you can do things like:

Automatically sync inventory between Amazon and Shopify
Automatically fulfill Shopify orders using Amazon FBA inventory
Route Shopify orders to Amazon marketplaces around the world, handling international fulfillment

Fulfilling off-Amazon orders with your Amazon inventory is called MCF. Learn more about Amazon MCF here.

🤖 Cool AI Apps for Shopify Stores

Zipchat is an AI chatbot that automates sales and support. Visitors can ask questions on your site and get instant answers based on information from your site + additional details you feed it.

We tested it and instantly found a few use cases to automatically answer common questions, like shipping and product recommendations.

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