Create the Shopify draft order

Creating the draft order is the last step, and the only one that writes anything to Shopify.

What has to be true first

The action becomes available when three things are done:

• No blockers remain.
• Every warning has been checked, and acknowledged where it offers that.
• Every price difference has been acknowledged, line by line.

The warnings section says it plainly — required details are resolved, and these should be checked against the source before you go on. Inventory warnings are the exception: they never hold the order up.

Acknowledging a price difference

Where a line’s purchase-order price differs from Shopify’s, you are asked to Acknowledge calculated price for line N before continuing.

This is a separate click on purpose. Pricing the order through Shopify is what reveals the difference, so the acknowledgement has to happen after that and before the draft is created.

Create it

Choose Create Shopify draft order.

One action does both halves: the order is priced through Shopify — catalogue prices for that company location, the chosen delivery rate, taxes — and then the draft is created from exactly those numbers.

There is no separate Calculate button. It was split in two once, and the gap between the clicks was where acknowledged price differences went missing.

On success the screen changes to the created state, with a link through to the draft in your Shopify admin.

What lands in Shopify

An ordinary Shopify draft order, carrying:

• The line items, in whole Shopify units. A line ordered as 3 cases of 12 arrives as 36 of the variant.
• The purchasing entity — the company, location and contact you settled.
• The shipping address, and the delivery rate chosen from Shopify’s own options.
• The payment terms you selected.
• Prices from Shopify, unless you chose the purchase-order price for a line.

From there it behaves like any other draft order. Complete it, send an invoice, or edit it in Shopify.

If it fails

The failure is shown with Shopify’s own explanation rather than a generic message, because the wording usually tells you what to fix. See A draft order wasn’t created.

The most common case is not a failure at all: if something in your store changed while you were reviewing — a variant archived, a delivery rate changed — the order returns to review with that one decision reopened, rather than being created on stale information.

After it is created

The purchase order keeps its link to the Shopify draft so you can get back to it. An order that has produced a draft will not produce another.