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This is a detailed article about **the test order on Shopify**.

As we all know, Shopify is becoming more and more popular and is an ideal e-commerce platform for many sellers to open their stores. Wishing that shop owners can run a successful business, Shopify provides them with a helpful feature called **placing test order** so they can test the order function of the website. Thanks to this, the shop owner can offer a functional online store to clients for a better experience.

Let learn more about **how to do a test order on Shopify** below.

**Table of contents**

- [What is the test order on Shopify?](#what-are-large-packages)
- [How much does test order cost on Shopify?](#what-is-the-cheapest-way-to-ship-large-packages)
- [Conclusion](#conclusion)

## What is the test order on Shopify?

### What is the test order on Shopify?

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A test order will help you simulate a transaction, which shows you how the checkout looks like for your donors or clients. This helps you determine whether all processes including order processing, payment, inventory, email notifications, taxes, and shipping are all correct or not.

If all works as you expect, it's great to start to pop the champagne. However, if some things still do not meet your requirements, you will be able to improve them before creating a bad customer experience.

Shopify has made the place a test order method convenient for the seller. You will not only find it easy to follow but also you won't have to spend anything. This encourages every online shop owner to be free to run as many tests as they want.

You can use one of the following **three methods to place a test order**:

- Use a real payment provider, then cancel immediately and refund your order.

- Use Shopify's Bogus Gateway to simulate transactions.

- You can also check your configuration by turning on these instructions if you are using Shopify Payments.

### What you can benefit from the test order?

One of the biggest problems store owners may encounter is that they are not sure if their payment gateway will work. Luckily, there is a super-easy way to solve this problem. You can test Shopify's checkout process before anything goes wrong with your customers when they decide to pay for the product they intend to buy.

{% include image.html src="https://cdn2.avada.io/media/resources/JOlHFqY.jpg" alt="An example of Shopify's checkout process" caption="An example of Shopify's checkout process" %}

Besides the above benefits, a test order on Shopify will help you feel secure instead of always restless and worried that your customers will encounter some obstacles when they experience order processing. In particular, you can verify all your shipping details have been provided and your customers are clearly informed in the transactions. Important information such as your tax details and inventory can also be carefully checked.

After you have reviewed all of the above matters, you will definitely have a clearer picture of what needs to be modified if you find anything wrong. Therefore, you should do at least one test order when setting up a store or whenever you change your payment setting.

## How much does test order cost on Shopify?

You will not be charged any fee as long as you immediately cancel and refund the order. Make sure you do this as quickly as possible then a test order will definitely cost zero.

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However, if you see after you have placed a trial order that your payment cycle is closed, but before you cancel it, a transaction fee will appear on your invoice. If that happens, a refund will be sent to you as a trading credit on your account. You can then apply as a transaction credit for your future transaction fees.

When you set up the store, test orders play a vital role in running a functional and successful store. Therefore, make sure everything is working smoothly and efficiently to give customers the best possible experience. Customers will take your store very seriously if they find your orders and checkout process convenient and easy. Building trust in customers and creating credibility will be the key to success.


## Conclusion

Shopify is an ideal environment for online shop owners to bring their products to customers easily and quickly. Therefore, to stand out and be trusted by many customers, taking care of the payment and ordering process is indispensable. **A Shopify order test** will help you ensure there are no problems with your customers while buying your product. This is both beneficial to you and your customers.

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How to Place a Test Order by Simulating Transaction on Shopify

To be distinct from the intense competition in the eCommerce market, and more specifically - [the Shopify platform](https://avada.io/resources/what-is-shopify-how-shopify-works.html), you might need to consider creating great blog posts. And once you have started to create one, you might wonder **How to configure Shopify blog settings?**.

We will help you figure out a simple answer to this question, so please read our article carefully. Let's get started!

**Related posts:**
- [How to Edit the Search Engine Listing for a Blog Post on Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-edit-search-engine-listing-blog-post-shopify.html)
- [How to Create a New Blog Template on Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-create-new-blog-template.html)
- [How to Set a Specific Publish Date for a Blog Post on Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-set-specific-publish-date-blog-post.html)

**To configure Shopify blog settings:**
- [Why you should add a blog on your Shopify store?](#why-you-should-add-a-blog-on-your-shopify-store)
- [Shopify blog basic settings](#shopify-blog-basic-settings)
  - [Edit a blog name](#edit-a-blog-name)
    - [Step 1: Click Blog Posts](#step-1-click-blog-posts)
    - [Step 2: Tap on `Manage blogs`](#step-2-tap-on-manage-blogs)
    - [Step 3: Click the blog name to adjust](#step-3-click-the-blog-name-to-adjust)
    - [Step 4: Type in a new name in the Title section](#step-4-type-in-a-new-name-in-the-title-section)
    - [Step 5: Tap on `Save`](#step-5-tap-on-save)
  - [Edit blog’s SEO](#edit-blogs-seo)
    - [Step 1: Click Blog Posts](#step-1-click-blog-posts)
    - [Step 2: Tap on `Manage blogs`](#step-2-tap-on-manage-blogs)
    - [Step 3: Click the blog name to adjust](#step-3-click-the-blog-name-to-adjust)
    - [Step 4: Tap on `Edit website SEO`](#step-4-tap-on-edit-website-seo)
    - [Step 5: Type in a descriptive title](#step-5-type-in-a-descriptive-title)
    - [Step 6: Type in search engine listing's description](#step-6-type-in-search-engine-listings-description)
  - [Edit blog’s URL](#edit-blogs-url)
    - [Step 1: Open the Search engine listing preview](#step-1-open-the-search-engine-listing-preview)
    - [Step 2: Adjust the URL and handle section](#step-2-adjust-the-url-and-handle-section)
    - [Step 3: Tap on `Save`](#step-3-tap-on-save)
- [Shopify blog advanced settings](#shopify-blog-advanced-settings)
  - [Create a custom template to layout a blog](#create-a-custom-template-to-layout-a-blog)
    - [For a blog](#for-a-blog)
    - [For an individual blog post](#for-an-individual-blog-post)
  - [Set specific publishing date for blog posts](#set-specific-publishing-date-for-blog-posts)
    - [Step 1: Click Blog Posts](#step-1-click-blog-posts)
    - [Step 2: Click on the post](#step-2-click-on-the-post)
    - [Step 3: Tap on `Set a specific publish date`](#step-3-tap-on-set-a-specific-publish-date)
    - [Step 4: Choose the post's publishing date and time](#step-4-choose-the-posts-publishing-date-and-time)
    - [Step 5: Tap on `Save`](#step-5-tap-on-save)
  - [Publish/Unpublish blog posts in bulk](#publishunpublish-blog-posts-in-bulk)
    - [Step 1: Click Blog Posts](#step-1-click-blog-posts)
    - [Step 2: Click on the post](#step-2-click-on-the-post)
    - [Step 3: Tap on `Actions`](#step-3-tap-on-actions)
    - [Step 4: Choose `Publish selected blog posts` or `Unpublish selected blog posts`](#step-4-choose-publish-selected-blog-posts-or-unpublish-selected-blog-posts)
- [Conclusion](#conclusion)

## Why you should add a blog on your Shopify store?
First of all, let’s take a look at how you can benefit from it integrates your blogging with your eCommerce store.

[Shopify blogs](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-add-blog-shopify.html) can assist you a great deal in attracting the audience to your online store and retain them. Blogging also helps you keep a coherent and consistent sense between your store and blog; these are only different pages on the same site, with the same user interface. Not only that, with only one admin tool, it also enables you to control and sustain the content so that you can have a constant update for your store and blog.

## Shopify blog basic settings

### Edit a blog name
To change a blog name, check out the simple steps below:

#### Step 1: Click Blog Posts
In your Shopify admin, head to the **Online Store** section, then click  `Blog Posts`.

![Step 1: Click Online Store > Blog Posts](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/1dGs7V8.jpg)

#### Step 2: Tap on `Manage blogs`

![Step 2: Tap on `Manage blogs`](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/uSGnRCb.jpg)

#### Step 3: Click the blog name to adjust

#### Step 4: Type in a new name in the Title section
From the **Edit blog** page, type in a new name you intend to change for your blog in the **Title** section.

![Step 4: Type in a new name in the **Title** section](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/hcPLCoS.jpg)

#### Step 5: Tap on `Save`

![Step 5: Tap on `Save`](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/llOO8zJ.jpg)

### Edit blog’s SEO
You can adjust the text that shows up in search engine results for a blog. To make it easier for a new customer to find your online store and entice them to click on the link, you can make use of a descriptive title and description.

Not only that, to do this, you can also [preview your blog's search engine listing](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-edit-search-engine-listing-preview-shopify.html) and make any necessary modifications.
Check out the following steps: 

#### Step 1: Click Blog Posts
In your Shopify admin, head to the **Online Store** section, then click  `Blog Posts`.

![Step 1: Click Online Store > Blog Posts](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/1dGs7V8.jpg)

#### Step 2: Tap on `Manage blogs`

![Step 2: Tap on `Manage blogs`](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/uSGnRCb.jpg)

#### Step 3: Click the blog name to adjust

#### Step 4: Tap on `Edit website SEO`
From the **Search engine listing preview** section, tap on `Edit website SEO`

![Step 4: Tap on `Edit website SEO`](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/hsyqxgu.jpg)

#### Step 5: Type in a descriptive title
From the **Page title** field, type in a descriptive title. It will appear as a link in the search engine results. The maximum characters of the title can be up to 55.

![Step 5: Type in a descriptive title](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/pY4uV3Z.jpg)

#### Step 6: Type in search engine listing's description
In this step, you should guarantee that you enter relevant keywords to make it easier for your new customers to spot your link, and to add your brand. The maximum characters of the description can be up to 320.

![Step 6: Type in search engine listing's description](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/TLNqO7Y.jpg)

Bear in mind that if you type in more text beyond the two character limits above, then your page title and description will be cut short in the search engine results. Furthermore, to know how to apply SEO for your eCommerce site, read our post: [Ecommerce SEO: An A-Z Guide to Increase Organic Traffic Growth](https://avada.io/resources/ecommerce-seo-guide.html).

### Edit blog’s URL
From the **Edit blog** page's **[Search engine listing preview](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-edit-search-engine-listing-preview-shopify.html)** section, you can edit your blog's web address. The creation of a blog will lead to the automatic creation of URL and handle. You may need to adjust or shorten the web address, but you may not affect the default.
To edit a blog's web address, you can:

#### Step 1: Open the Search engine listing preview
From the **Edit blog** page, tap on the `Edit website SEO` to open it.

![Step 1: Open the Search engine listing preview](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/hsyqxgu.jpg)

#### Step 2: Adjust the URL and handle section
From the **Search engine listing preview**, edit the URL and handle field.

![Step 2: Adjust the URL and handle section](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/KC9P57p.jpg)

If you want the original blog URLs to redirect your customers to the new URLs, then you can leave the options for redirects checked.

#### Step 3: Tap on `Save`

![Step 3: Tap on `Save`](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/RbSmOdt.jpg)

## Shopify blog advanced settings

### Create a custom template to layout a blog

#### For a blog
To customize the layout of individual blog posts, you can build a template. For instance, you could create a template for posts that will feature many images. However, you might only need to use them for a few posts in a blog. In this case, you must know something about coding.

In your Shopify admin, head to the **Online Store** section, then click `Themes`.

![For a blog](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/DA5XEmU.jpg)

Look for the theme you intend to adjust, tap on `Actions`, then click `Edit code`.

![For a blog](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/GV6cKn6.jpg)

Below the **Templates** folder, tap on `Add a new template`.

![For a blog](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/t0LmHYq.jpg)

From the drop-down menu, choose the **article** option, and then give a name to your template.

![For a blog](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/4EDF5PX.jpg)

Then, you can tap `Create a template`.

![For a blog](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/5Uiq1hg.jpg)

From the online code editor, you can modify the template to customize the blog post style until you are satisfied.

After you make any modifications, tap on `Save`.

#### For an individual blog post
Once you have added more than one new template, you can apply a template to an individual post. Only the posts having the template applied will show following the template that you have set. With blog post templates, you can possess a shortcut to customize a blog post to your needs without affecting other posts in the blog.

To create a custom template to layout a blog for an individual post, you can:

Go to your Shopify admin, then click `Blog Posts` in the **Online Store** section.
![Imgur](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/1dGs7V8.jpg)

Then, you can click the blog post that you intend to adjust.

After that, choose a template from the **Template** drop-down menu.

Tap on `Save`.

### Set specific publishing date for blog posts
You can have a choice to set a specific publish date for your blog. For instance, you can set a post to be published on the date when you introduce a new item. What's more, you can backdate a post. 

To set a specific publishing date for blog posts, you can follow the steps below:

#### Step 1: Click Blog Posts
In your Shopify admin, head to the **Online Store** section, then click  `Blog Posts`.

![Step 1: Click Online Store > Blog Posts](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/1dGs7V8.jpg)

#### Step 2: Click on the post
From the **Blog posts** page, tap on the post that you intend to publish on a precise date.

#### Step 3: Tap on `Set a specific publish date`

![Step 3: Click Set a specific publish date](https://imgur.com/WLPHkhi.jpg)

#### Step 4: Choose the post's publishing date and time

![Step 4: Choose the post's publishing date and time](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/VYsVRq9.jpg)

#### Step 5: Tap on `Save`

![Step 5: Tap on `Save`](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/OILO59s.jpg)

### Publish/Unpublish blog posts in bulk
To publish or unpublish multiple blog posts at once and make them visible or hidden on your online store, you can make use of a bulk action:

#### Step 1: Click Blog Posts
In your Shopify admin, head to the **Online Store** section, then click  `Blog Posts`.

![Step 1: Click Online Store > Blog Posts](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/1dGs7V8.jpg)

#### Step 2: Click on the post
From the **Blog posts** page, tap on the post that you intend to publish on a precise date.

#### Step 3: Tap on `Actions`

#### Step 4: Choose `Publish selected blog posts` or `Unpublish selected blog posts`

Note that unpublishing selected blog posts will not delete the blog posts from Shopify.

## Conclusion
Now that you have a better understanding about the importance of adding a blog on your Shopify store and have figured out **How to configure Shopify blog settings?** We hope that you could manage your online store more effectively.

Furthermore, if you find the creation a customized blog template not as easy as you imagine, you should check out our post: [How to Create a New Blog Template on Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-create-new-blog-template.html) to work it out.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below or directly contact us.


Configure Shopify blog settings

This writing is all aboout shipping policy: what a shipping policy is, templates, examples, and tips to create a perfect shipping policy for your store.

Shipping Policy: Templates, Examples and Everything You Should Know

Use Oberlo with Shopify


Are you currently running an online business on the [Shopify platform](https://avada.io/resources/what-is-shopify-how-shopify-works.html)? If yes, I assume that you have to try every single day to improve your store and enhance customer experience as well. **[Shopify Robots.txt](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/robots-txt.html)** is a great tool for that. It aims to access and arrange content and bring that content to the users.

To learn more about details of this file, please take a look at the following article **Shopify Robots.txt: Everything You Need to Know**. 

Let’s get started now!

**Table of contents**

  * [Shopify Robots.txt: An Overview](#shopify-robotstxt-an-overview)
    * [What is Robots.txt File?](#what-is-robotstxt-file)
    * [Why is Robots.txt File Necessary?](#why-is-robotstxt-file-necessary)
    * [Where Can You Find Shopify Robots.txt?](#where-can-you-find-shopify-robotstxt)
    * [Can You Edit Shopify Robots.txt File?](#can-you-edit-shopify-robotstxt-file)
  * [How to Hide a Page on Your Shopify Store from Search Engine](#how-to-hide-a-page-on-your-shopify-store-from-search-engine)
  * [Conclusion](#conclusion)
  
## Shopify Robots.txt: An Overview

![Shopify Robots.txt: An Overview](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/CO4YpDW.jpg)

Shopify Robots.txt has a significant influence on [Search Engine Optimization (SEO)](https://avada.io/resources/shopify-seo-guide.html). It is the file that helps merchants a lot in controlling search robots. 

### What is Robots.txt File?

Robots.txt is a text file created by webmasters to tell web robots (usually search engines) which pages on your site to crawl and which pages not to crawl. The robots.txt file is included in the robots exclusion protocol (REP), which is known as a group of web standards. These standards show how robots crawl the web, process and index content and bring that content to users. In the REP, there are also directives such as meta robots, page-, subdirectory-, or site-wide directions for how search engines should treat links, for example: “follow” or “nofollow”.

In practice, robots.txt files are used to tell if certain user agents can or cannot crawls the web. These crawl directions are designated by “disallowing” or “allowing’ the behavior of user agents. 

Robots.txt file is located at the root directory of your Shopify store's primary domain name. Hence, it is the first document that spiders or crawlers open when entering your site. Nevertheless, the file does not take control of crawling. It’s possible for you to integrate a link to your sitemap, which provides search engine spiders with an overview of all current URLs of your domain. 

So how to generate a robots.txt file? Don’t worry. Shopify will automatically create a robots.txt file for you if you run an online store on this platform. 

### Why is Robots.txt File Necessary? 

Robot.txt files aim to manage spiders access to certain areas of your website. Although it is not very safe if you unintentionally disallow Googlebot from crawling your whole site, you still can take advantage of robots.txt files in some situations:

  * Avoiding same content from appearing in SERPs (notice that meta robots are often a better option for this)

  * Maintaining entire sections of a website private

  * Keeping internal search results pages from appearing on a public SERP

  * Defining the location of sitemaps

  * Avoiding search engines from indexing certain files on your sites such as photos and PDFs

  * Designating a crawl delay to prevent your servers from being overloaded when spiders load a number of pieces of content at the same time

### Where Can You Find Shopify Robots.txt?

The robots.txt file is stored at the root directory of your Shopify store’s domain name. 

### Can You Edit Shopify Robots.txt File?
Sadly, you can’t. However, you should notice that the content of your store’s robots.txt file blocks from search engines. For instance, the shopping cart page is blocked from search engines as you want customers to go to your site first rather than the cart page. 

## How to Hide a Page on Your Shopify Store from Search Engine

In order to hide a page that is not included in your robots.txt file, customize the <head> section of your store’s theme.liquid layout file. You also have to enter some code to noindex certain pages. 

### Step 1. Enter `Themes` section

In your Shopify admin, go to `Online Store` and then `Themes`. 

![How to Hide a Page on Your Shopify Store from Search Engine](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/NgFbJr1.jpg)

### Step 2. Edit code

Choose the theme you want to edit, click on `Actions` and then click `Edit code`.

![Hide a Page on Your Shopify Store from Search Engine](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/R73xORi.jpg)

### Step 3. Choose the `theme.liquid` layout file

Click the `theme.liquid` button.

![How to Hide a Page on Your Shopify Store from Search Engine](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/9QPsd6F.jpg)

### Step 4. Enter code to exclude the search template

Type the following code in the <head> section.
```
{% raw %}
{% if template contains 'search' %}
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
{% endif %}
{% endraw %}
```

### Step 5. Enter code to exclude a specific code

Write the following code in the <head> section. 
```
{% raw %}
{% if handle contains 'page-handle-you-want-to-exclude' %}
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
{% endif %}
{% endraw %}
```
 
Remember that you replace page-handle-you-want-to-exclude with the exact page handle.

### Step 6. Save 

Click on `Save` button. 

For more detailed instructions, please check out at the article [How to Hide a Page From Search Engines on Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-hide-page-from-search-engines-shopify.html). 

## Conclusion

That’s all. Through this article **Shopify Robots.txt: Everything You Need to Know**, I hope you can understand deeply about robots.txt file and what it can benefit your business on Shopify. In case you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave a comment for us. We will not let you wait for our replies. 

Thank you for reading! 


Shopify Robots.txt: Everything You Need to Know

As the digital world is increasingly becoming popular, which enables you to purchase online, receive your receipt via email, and have the ability to access your complete buying history all on your Shopify platform. So, in order to run your business more smoothly, fulfilling orders quickly and accurately is an important factor in running an online business. That's why **Packing Slip was invented as a customizable sheet** to indicates what and how many items are in a shipment to help to communicate what has been sent to the customer.

However, consumers and merchants nowadays have paid less attention to the [Packing Slip on Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/shopify-packing-slip.html), but I still think it is still a common part of the packing process in many eCommerce shipping operations. So, I have this article today to carefully provide **all necessary information that you need to know about Packing Slip**, how to deal with it as well as its role in your eCommerce Shopify store.

**Table of contents**
- [What is Shopify Packing Slip?](#what-is-shopify-packing-slip)
- [Why is Packing Slip Important?](#why-is-packing-slip-important)
   - [Make sure the shipment has everything](#make-sure-the-shipment-has-everything)
   - [Track all items in the order](#track-all-items-in-the-order)
   - [Identify damaged items](#identify-damaged-items)
   - [Confirm that all items were received](#confirm-that-all-items-were-received)
   - [Enable estimating the value of a shipment](#enable-estimating-the-value-of-a-shipment)
- [How to Print Packing Slips on Shopify](#how-to-print-packing-slips-on-shopify)
   - [Print packing slips before buying a shipping label](#print-packing-slips-before-buying-a-shipping-label)
     - [Step 1. Navigate to Orders](#step-1-navigate-to-orders)
     - [Step 2. Choose the order](#step-2-choose-the-order)
     - [Step 3. Click Create shipping label](#step-3-click-create-shipping-label)
     - [Step 4. Click Mark as fulfilled](#step-4-click-mark-as-fulfilled)
     - [Step 5. Choose Print packing slip](#step-5-choose-print-packing-slip)
     - [Step 6. Choose to print](#step-6-choose-to-print)
   - [Print packing slips while buying a shipping label](#print-packing-slips-while-buying-a-shipping-label)
     - [Step 1. Navigate to Orders](#step-1-navigate-to-orders)
     - [Step 2. Select the order](#step-2-select-the-order)
     - [Step 3. Click Create shipping label](#step-3-click-create-shipping-label)
     - [Step 4. Click Buy shipping label](#step-4-click-buy-shipping-label)
     - [Step 5. Select Print packing slip](#step-5-select-print-packing-slip)
     - [Step 6. Click Print](#step-6-click-print)
- [How to Edit Packing Slips on Shopify](#how-to-edit-packing-slips-on-shopify)
- [Conclusion](#conclusion)

## What is Shopify Packing Slip?
A Shopify Packing Slip is created as a complete list of all items included in a shipment order, which is sent to the shipping department to instruct the buyers to add the inventory needs to be sent out to complete the order. A packing slip is different from an invoice as it is normally used to denote the physical goods being received. Meanwhile, an invoice shows the financial document of the order, which has information like how much money each product was sold for, the payment terms, payment method, and many more.

Specifically, packing slips is what keep you organized no matter you are shipping one order at a time or multiple. Normally, when you prepare the orders that are ready to ship, then you need to print the packing slip to note everything that the customer ordered, also the shipping label for them. Next, you need to pick the items in the orders, pack them up, and then just ship it. 

![What is Shopify Packing Slip?](https://imgur.com/6Oh4eff.png)

On Shopify, a packing slip is normally printed in two sizes, either 4x6 or 8x11. It can be customized to include your store name, logo, or additional notes for customers. Also, Shopify notifies that they will add more features like multiple template support and bulk printing for Packing Slip in the days to come. 

## Why is Packing Slip Important?
### Make sure the shipment has everything
As you can see, while fulfilling an eCommerce order, merchants should check and double-check it during the process before they seal and label a box. Then, in that process, the packer takes charge of verifying the quality of items inside to be exactly like what the customer ordered including the counts of multiple SKUs. So, in this case, merchants should have a packing slip to reflect every detail of all ordered items, as well as record the physical items of those products. When all things are verified, the packing slip can be placed in the orders' box and retailers can ship them. 

![Why is Packing Slip Important?](https://imgur.com/QQfcgFH.png)

### Track all items in the order
In some cases, the size of the order and products and the location of different SKUs among different locations might split an order by putting some items in different boxes to send to customers at different times. So, in case there are multiple boxes being separated, a packing slip is what you need to track all the items and help you and your recipient stay organized instead of being worried.

### Identify damaged items
With the Packing slip, when there is a damaged item happens, then it will help to identify and sort the item out easily. A Packing slip will confirm whether a fragile item is broke or the entire package was damaged in transit. Then, it will show up as a backup to help speeding up the package's refund or to resend the procedure.

### Confirm that all items were received
As you can see, packing slips helps a lot in identifying missing items, then it also is so useful in ensuring that all ordered items were received as well. It is like a paper trail or record of what is included in the shipment, then, when you can see the eCommerce order tracking to confirm whether they are all been delivered.

![Confirm that all items were received](https://imgur.com/KqWP9yU.png)

### Enable estimating the value of a shipment
This would be helpful for international shipments. As in this case, the buyers often utilize the packing slip to calculate the value of a shipment. Nevertheless, in this case, a commercial invoice that has the description of goods, their value, the seller’s and shipper’s shipping destinations, and so on will be more preferable by customers. 

## How to Print Packing Slips on Shopify
After starting with the fulfillment process, the Packing slips should be print out. These should include all the items being sent in a specific shipment. Even when you have many shipments for an order, you will have to print packing slip separately. I will present two sections of printing packing slips on Shopify as the process will differ before and while purchasing a shipping label.
### Print packing slips before buying a shipping label
#### Step 1. Navigate to Orders 
When you have already been in your Shopify admin, click on the `Orders` button to open it.
#### Step 2. Choose the order
After that, just click on the order that you want to print a packing slip for, you can choose multiple orders at the same time.

![Print packing slips before buying a shipping label](https://imgur.com/k8fS5YG.png)

#### Step 3. Click Create shipping label
In case you are using Shopify Shipping, which is created especially for stores based in the United States or Canada, then just click on the `Create shipping label` button, which is shown in the Unfulfilled section.
#### Step 4. Click Mark as fulfilled
In case you are not using the Shopify Shipping, choose the `Mark as fulfilled` button below the products.

![Print packing slips before buying a shipping label step 4](https://imgur.com/Au3DBkt.png)

#### Step 5. Choose Print packing slip
Subsequently, just hit a click on the ` Print packing slip` button.
#### Step 6. Choose to print

![Print packing slips before buying a shipping label step 6](https://imgur.com/6Oh4eff.png)

Finally, simply click `Print` to print the Packing Slips.

### Print packing slips while buying a shipping label
#### Step 1. Navigate to Orders 
When you have already been in your Shopify admin, click on the `Orders` button to open it.
#### Step 2. Select the order 
Next, just select on the order that you want to print a packing slip for by clicking it, you can choose multiple orders at the same time.

![Print packing slips while buying a shipping label](https://imgur.com/k8fS5YG.png)

#### Step 3. Click Create shipping label
In case you are using Shopify Shipping, which is created especially for stores based in the United States or Canada, then just click on the `Create shipping label` button, which is shown in the Unfulfilled section.
#### Step 4. Click Buy shipping label
After that, hit a click on the `Buy shipping label` option.
#### Step 5. Select Print packing slip
Choose `Print packing slip` to finish the next step.
#### Step 6. Click Print
Finally, click `Print` to get your packing slips printed.

![Print packing slips while buying a shipping label step 6](https://imgur.com/qbhhWfS.png)

## How to Edit Packing Slips on Shopify
There is a template language called Liquid created by Shopify, which is utilized by your packing slips. If you are the person who can do well with HTML, CSS, and Liquid, then the packing slips variables are what you need to adjust your packing slip template on Shopify.

![How to Edit Packing Slips on Shopify](https://imgur.com/w1lH0w8.png)

The method is simple, you just need to open the `Packing slips` section from your shipping settings on Shopify. After that, click the `Edit` button to adjust the packing slip templates. At the same time, you can just click the `Revert to default` button to be able to revert the packing slip back to the default template while editing. In case you want to insert the logo to your products or delete the product images from your packing slips or any other customizations, just edit the template code to do so.

## Conclusion
In conclusion, **Shopify Packing Slip** is what represents the valuable opportunities to connect with your customers. It can fully be leveraged to drive future sales, also to manage customer expectations as well. 

Hopefully, the article today can help you in **understanding Shopify Packing Slip** in some ways. So, it's time for you to start creating your own store's packing slips for every order. However, if you still have something in your mind, just inform us so that we will clearly explain it to you. 

Don't forget to visit our [AVADA](https://avada.io/) website regularly to get more useful knowledge while selling and shopping on Shopify. 


Shopify Packing Slip: Everything You Need to Know


When you have already been running your online store for a while, you will have to concern about driving targeted traffic to your products and start to sell some. Then, you will have to invest a large amount of time and money to get started during this process, and this could be tough to figure out the next steps to further grow your business here. Then, there is an effective tool, which is called **[affiliate marketing](https://avada.io/resources/maketing-strategies-to-grow-business.html#4-affiliate-marketing)**, that is often overlooked by sellers. 

As a matter of fact, when you figure out the way to create an affiliate program, your customers and advocates will then do your marketing for you. So, in this article today, I will show you all the essentials as well as the way to **add affiliate products** to your Shopify store.

Learn more: [How to Sell Affiliate Products on Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/sell-afiliate-product.html)

**How to add affiliate products to Shopify**
 - [What is affiliate Marketing?](#what-is-affiliate-marketing)
 - [Pros and cons of an affiliate store](#pros-and-cons-of-an-affiliate-store)
     - [Pros](#pros)
     - [Cons](#cons)
 - [Why Affiliate Marketing is good for eCommerce business?](#why-affiliate-marketing-is-good-for-ecommerce-business)
 - [How to add affiliate products to Shopify?](#how-to-add-affiliate-products-to-shopify)
     - [Replace “Add to cart” button with a product link](#replace-add-to-cart-button-with-a-product-link)
        - [1. Create a new product template](#1-create-a-new-product-template)
        - [2. Hide the Add to cart button](#2-hide-the-add-to-cart-button)
        - [3. Add an email link or contact form ](#3-add-an-email-link-or-contact-form)
           - [Email link](#email-link)
           - [Contact form](#contact-form)
        - [4. Assign your new template to a product](#4-assign-your-new-template-to-a-product)
     - [Using Spreadr App to curate products from Amazon](#using-spreadr-app-to-curate-products-from-amazon)
        - [Step 1. Copy the Amazon product page link](#step-1-copy-the-amazon-product-page-link)
        - [Step 2. Paste the link](#step-2-paste-the-link)
        - [Step 3. Click Add Product](#step-3-click-add-product)
        - [Step 4. Click View](#step-4-click-view)
        - [Step 5. Choose View on Amazon](#step-5-choose-view-on-amazon)
 - [Best Shopify Affiliate apps for your store](#best-shopify-affiliate-apps-for-your-store)
   - [1. Refersion](#1-refersion)
   - [2. LeadDyno](#2-leaddyno)
   - [3. Omnistar](#3-omnistar)
   - [4. Affiliatly](#4-affiliatly)
   - [5. Enlistly](#5-enlistly)
 - [Summary](#summary)

## What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is defined as a reward-based system, which is created to encourages partners to promote your products in exchange for a commission. You can understand affiliate marketing is like a partnership between a publisher who creates content and a seller who has the affiliate program hosted by an affiliate tracking platform. 

When the publishers are approved to the affiliate program, that person can log in to the retailer’s affiliate platform to obtain unique product tracking links, which is now called affiliate links.

There are about 31 methods to run and get profit via affiliate links. You can put them within the written content, or utilize them to invent product listings, talk about them on podcasts, or even insert them into banner advertisements. When there is a visitor who clicks on one of those affiliate links, and then buys products from that merchant's website, then, the publisher of this link will be given the commission from the seller for assisting them to sell a product.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/EQbUzwA.png)

When a visitor clicks on a link, there will be a tracking cookie, which is located on the visitor’s web browser, notifies the seller which publisher sent the visitor to their site. However, these mentioned cookies are only valid in a period of time depending on the retailer's decision. 

Then, the publisher will only be paid in case the visitor buy that store's products within that time period. Normally, one affiliate program will be paid through the flat dollar amount or the percentage of that store's total sale. Also, the tracking behind affiliate links will be recorded automatically by the retailer’s affiliate platform.

## Pros and cons of an affiliate store
According to the 2016 research from Business Insider, affiliate marketing has successfully driven up to 16 percent of all U.S. eCommerce sales. But the pros also comes with the cons. Here, I will present to you what are those benefits and drawbacks that an affiliate store might have:
### Pros
- **More Affordable**: When looking at the investment that you have to spend to build, publish and develop a normal eCommerce store, you will see a big amount of money that you have to pay here. Then, when looking at the fact that you almost don't have to pay a thing to create your affiliate store because the affiliate programs are free, and there is no product inventory requires you to invest in.
- **Less Customer Service**: When your customers get in any troubles, the affiliate retailers that you partner with will handle them all. These could be the shipping, returns, or general inquiries. As a result, you will not have to spend much time dealing with these customer services.
- **Brand Recognition**: When you have your affiliate products from well-known brands in your store, then you will be able to enhance the trust from buyers as well as gain a bigger opportunity to turn your visitors into buyers.
- **More Offerings**: When you insert the affiliate products into the mix of your existing eCommerce store, you will be enabled to enhance the product offerings and revenue as well even when you don't have to invest much for expanding your product line.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/Q4HdXe3.png)

### Cons
- **Lower Margins**: You know that the commission rates here are provided by most physical product affiliate programs, which will not have the Wow factor for you in terms of generosity. Consequently, you might earn less on each sale than when you sell your own products.
- **Disjointed Experience**: In case you have your products handled by more than one retailer on your site, then you will need to send visitors to multiple sites while they are completing their check out with different products. Then, there might have disjointed experience here. As a result, your customers might be frustrated, and your conversion rate can be severely hurt.
- **No Guarantees**: On the other hand, when the number of brands that your affiliate store promotes is not diversified, then your income might bring a drastic hit in case your main retailer deletes you or decides to close down their affiliate program.
- **Product Upkeep**: Although the fact that there are so many tools that you can utilize, but you are also required to do some manual work to keep your product links, descriptions, and images accurate and up to date as well.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/8pNQX9K.png)

## Why Affiliate Marketing is good for eCommerce business?
In 2016, there was a research from Business Insider, they stated that the U.S eCommerce sales had been driven to increase 16 percent by affiliate marketing. At the same time, there is also evidence that affiliate marketing has helped the Wirecutter create 150 million dollars in its online sales in 2015 by only utilizing the referral links for a large collection of products that they feature. The fact has been proved, an eCommerce business can gain more profits with the Affiliate Marketing program. 
## How to add affiliate products to Shopify?
First, you should know about what the affiliate store is. In that store, there will be the publisher’s content with product listings that looks like a real eCommerce store. But instead of listing out that store's products for sale, the publisher needs to list other merchant’s products and then redirect visitors to their sites using his affiliate links. And there are two main ways to insert the affiliate products to your Shopify store. 
### Replace "Add to cart" button with a product link
The first method is to replace the `Add to cart` button with an email link or a contact form. There are four main big steps that you need to do:
#### 1. Create a new product template
The very first step is to create a custom product template for your product.
* **Step 1. Open Themes**

First, of course, you have to log in to your Shopify admin account. From the main page, navigate to your `Online Store`, and choose to open `Themes`.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/GTHpUIq.png)

* **Step 2. Choose Edit code**

Then, just select the theme that wants to make changes here by clicking on the `Actions` button, and choose for the `Edit code` option after that.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/JKSl9PB.png)

* **Step 3. Select Add a new template**

You will be directed to the `Templates` section, it's where you need to hit a click on `Add a new template` button.

* **Step 4. Create the product template**

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/zBT0buj.png)

In the end, you need to finish creating a new product template section by filling the information including selecting `product` from the drop-down menu. And then, name your template `requires-contact`. Lastly, choose the `Create template` button.
#### 2. Hide the Add to cart button 
Next, you have to hide the `Add to cart` button of your store. Basically, you will have to open your `product-template-requires-contact.liquid` section file and find the code and then make some changes. There has already been an article on our website that instructs you to [Hide the Add to cart button in Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/devdocs/how-to-hide-add-to-cart-button.html). The detailed process is all here for you to follow. 
#### 3. Add an email link or contact form 
In this section, you have to input any content that you want to show instead.
* **Email link**

**_Step 1: Add the HTML code_**

Below the Liquid `{% raw %}{% endcomment %}{% endraw %}` tag that you added in the last step, you need to insert a new line to be inserted the HTML code for an email link: 
```
{% raw %}
<a href="mailto:{{ shop.email }}">contact us</a> if you are
interested in this product.
{% endraw %}
```
**_Step 2: Click Save_**

That's it, then just choose `Save` to finish adding an email link here.

* **Contact form**
**_Step 1. Choose page.contact.liquid_**

Open the `Templates` directory, then choose the `page.contact.liquid` button.

**_Step 2. Find the Liquid tag_**

In the file which is shown, you must find for the Liquid `{% raw %}{% form 'contact' %}{% endraw %}` tag by typing its name in the searching bar.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/VQF9q50.png)

**_Step 3. Copy all of the code_**

From the Liquid `{% raw %}{% form 'contact' %}{% endraw %}` tag to the Liquid `{% raw %}{% endform %}{% endraw %}` tag, which is shown on the screen, just copy these lines and include the Liquid form tags in the code that you copy.

**_Step 4. Open your new product.requires-contact.liquid file_** 

Then, open the `Templates` directory to go back to your new `product.requires-contact.liquid` file.

**_Step 5. Paste the code_**

From here, you need to find the closing `</form>` tag in this file. Then insert a new line below it in order to paste the code for your contact form.

**_Step 6. Copy and paste the div tag code_**

Next, just copy the code that you have just pasted in the HTML div tags. There is the class attribute that is included in the div tag code. By doing this way, it can make sure that you have your contact form renders correctly on the page.
- For the new line above `{% raw %}{% form 'contact' %}{% endraw %}`, just paste this code line:
  `<div class="form-vertical"></div>`
- For the new line below `{% raw %}{% endform %}{% endraw %}`, just paste this code line:
  `</div>`

**_Step 7. Click Save_**

In the end, don't forget to click `Save`.
#### 4. Assign your new template to a product 
When the template is finished, then you should assign it to these products that you want to hide the **Add to cart** button.

* **Step 1. Open Products**

Go back to your Shopify admin, and open the `Products` section.
* **Step 2. Choose the product**

Choose the product that you want to hide the `Add to cart` button by clicking on its name.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/SbhfwZS.png)

* **Step 3. Select your new requires-contact template**

Under the `Theme templates` on the product page of your Shopify admin, find and select your new `requires-contact` template from the `Template suffix` drop-down.

* **Step 4. Click Save**

Finally, it's done! Just click the `Save` button and now you have successfully added the affiliate products to your Shopify store. 
### Using Spreadr App to curate products from Amazon
This Spreadr App is created by the Thalia team to dropship Amazon products or earn affiliate commissions. This app would work best for importing products from Amazon to your Shopify store with just some clicks. From over a million products available on Amazon, you will be able to import any product to your product catalog. 

As a result, you will be able to have the complement of your store and make it bigger and more valuable. At the same time, it can help your visitors view and buy the products, or orders completed by Amazon. Also, you will be able to track orders and commissions on the dashboard on your own here.

When you have decided to install Spreadr, and having completed the installing part, here are some steps you should take to curate products from Amazon to your Shopify store. 
#### Step 1. Copy the Amazon product page link
First, you should open the Amazon product page and copy its Affiliate link here on the link bar.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/dNE1Kb8.png)

#### Step 2. Paste the link
Then, navigate to the Home page, there will be a section for you to paste the link in. 

#### Step 3. Click Add Product
Simply hit a click on the `Add Product` button to continue the adding process. 

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/VvIAvPT.png)

Then, it will take some time to load. Wait until it informs you that the process is successful.
#### Step 4. Click View
From here, you have successfully added your product from Amazon to the Shopify store. Your product will be displayed here, you can click to the `View` button to see how it is shown. 

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/Jvyyhzl.png)

#### Step 5. Choose View on Amazon

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/g3yk7I0.png)

Then, you can choose the `View on Amazon` button to see what it looks like on Amazon.
### Best Shopify Affiliate apps for your store
There are multiple affiliate apps that can be installed to take you through a process of running an affiliate program offered to your business. I will show you some recommendations for the affiliate marketing apps available in the Shopify App Store to consider installing.
#### 1. Refersion
The  <a href="https://avada.io/shopify/affiliate/#refersion,-inc." target="_blank">Refersion: Affiliate Marketing</a> app, which is created by Refersion, Inc as an incredibly powerful  tool to manage, track, and grow your affiliate marketing program. This app is a fully-loaded affiliate, also an influencer marketing platform that enables you to launch in just a couple of minutes. 

Plus, it is such a referral platform with more than 100 reviews and many five star ratings, which makes it become one of the apps that you should have. What is more, your business can be scaled with this app as you can start out on a free plan, then calculate the demand to expand your affiliate offerings, and upgrade to a paid plan after that.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/qYbsSlh.png)

#### 2. LeadDyno
The  <a href="https://avada.io/shopify/affiliate/#leaddyno" target="_blank">LeadDyno Affiliate Marketing</a> app is absolutely an easy Influencer and Affiliate Marketing app designed by LeadDyno. With this app, you will be helped in setting up Affiliate Website right away to start bringing affiliates onboard, at the same time, start to recruit eCommerce affiliates and influencers without any cost. 

Plus, this app is integrated with your Shopify store and highly customizable as well. You can choose to pay for your affiliates automatically or get the "one-click" approval using PayPal, Dwolla or even Coinbase.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/u6wYlkf.png)

#### 3. Omnistar
The <a href="https://avada.io/shopify/affiliate/#omnistar-affiliate-software" target="_blank">Omnistar Affiliate Software</a> app is what will help you increase your traffic and sales with the affiliate software made easy. There are thousands of business owners currently utilize Omnistar as their preferred affiliate software. 

It also has the 15-day free trial option to test the efficiency of Omnistar. Best of all, you will have the support from the support team of this app as their goal is to ensure that you are successful with your affiliate and referral marketing programs.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/NoyctB4.png)

#### 4. Affiliatly
The <a href="https://avada.io/shopify/affiliate/#overcode" target="_blank">Affiliatly Affiliate Marketingby overcode</a> is such a Affiliate tracking app with great price for users. It is designed with an incredibly clean interface, and the ability to customize everything about the app to realize your ideas and make the program your own. Moreover, there is also the Affiliatly's 30-day free trial available to bring you a feel for how it works. Best of all, the created team is now constantly improving the app and adding new functionalities to bring you a more amazing affiliate program to perfectly suit your needs.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/h8zhPi0.png)

#### 5. Enlistly
The <a href="https://avada.io/shopify/affiliate/#enlistly" target="_blank">Enlistly</a> app is another popular affiliate program app for your Shopify store to managing affiliate easily. On Enlistly, you will be fully supported with things like custom commission rates based on affiliate, as well as the transaction type. This app only requires you to pay 9.99 dollars to get a clean interface, Unique Affiliate URLs as well as the unique affiliate registration URL to share everywhere.

![how to add affiliate products to shopify](https://imgur.com/ooItdl6.png)

## Summary
On the whole, understanding the **effectiveness of your affiliate program** is essential for any sustainable success. Beginning with an affiliate store can save more to generate a traditional eCommerce one nowadays. Just simply remember to pick a niche, optimize your website and market your store to your own prospective customers, then the more traffic you can direct to retailers, the more commission you will earn.

The content above is all I want you to know about in **adding affiliate products to your Shopify store**, it's your turn to get started! If you have any troubles happens while practicing, just let us know so that we can try our best to help you fix that. 


How to add affiliate products to Shopify

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Before you establish your store or once you have modified your checkout settings, it is crucial to place a test order from the storefront. By doing this, you can guarantee that everything performs properly according to your plan. You can also gain insight into your customers’ shopping experience. 

Therefore, you should figure out **Test Shopify orders with REST Admin API**. We will provide a step-by-step guide to help you do that. Let's get started right now!

**Related posts:**
- [How to Do a Test Order on Shopify store](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/test-order.html)
- [How to Place Test Order on Shopify by Simulating Transaction](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-place-test-order-by-simulating-transaction-shopify.html)
- [How to Create a Draft Order on Shopify](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-create-draft-order-shopify.html)

**Shopify Order API: Test Shopify orders with the REST Admin API:**
- [About Shopify Order API](#about-shopify-order-api)
  - [What is the order?](#what-is-the-order)
  - [What is API?](#what-is-api)
  - [What is API testing?](#what-is-api-testing)
- [How to test Shopify orders with the REST Admin API?](#how-to-test-shopify-orders-with-the-rest-admin-api)
  - [Step 1: Creating a Shopify order](#step-1-creating-a-shopify-order)
  - [Step 2: Getting a transaction ID](#step-2-getting-a-transaction-id)
  - [Step 3: Capturing the transaction](#step-3-capturing-the-transaction)
  - [Step 4: Confirming the test order](#step-4-confirming-the-test-order)
- [Conclusion](#conclusion)

## About Shopify Order API

### What is the order?
An order is a customer's completed request to buy one or more items from a store. The creation of the order happens once a customer completes the checkout process-when they provide an email address or phone number, billing address, and payment information.

Via the API, orders can be created, but without any collection of payment information and any performance of the transaction. Also, you can have the option to mark the order without any payment status.
Alternatively, you can enable retailers to produce orders manually by the use of the draft order resource.

### What is API?

![What is API](https://cdn4.avada.io/media/shopify/m1RiuPL.jpg)

As mentioned above, orders can be created through the API. So what exactly is an API? Well, an API is a set of programming code that allows data transmission between one software product and another. It also includes this data exchange's terms. 

Application programming interfaces contain two parts. The first one is technical specification representing the data exchange options between solutions with the term presented in the form of a request for processing and data delivery protocols.
The second one is the software interface, which is written to the term that portrays it.

The software that requires to access information (i.e., X hotel room rates for certain dates) or functionality (i.e., a route from point A to point B on a map based on a user’s location) from another software, calls its API while determining the requirements of how data or functionality should be rendered. The other software will give back the data/functionality requested by the former application.

Also, note that the interface by which these two applications communicate is what the API specifies.
The Red Hat specialists note that APIs are occasionally regarded as contracts, where documentation is an agreement between the parties: *“If party first sends a remote request structured a particular way, this is how the second party’s software will respond.”*

For developers, the API documentation is a hand-operated that contains all the information needed so that they can know how to work with the API and get the most out of the services it offerers to them. The documentation will be dug in more in each upcoming section.

Each API includes and is performed by function calls that are language statements requesting software to implement specific actions and services. As described in the API documentation, function calls are phrases consisting of verbs and nouns, for instance: start or finish a session, get amenities for a single room type, and restore or retrieve objects from a server.

APIs can be very helpful in multiple aspects. In general, they can make software development much more simple and speedier. Developers can include more functionality such as recommender engine, accommodation booking, image recognition, and payment processing from other providers to current solutions. Not only that, they can have the option to develop new applications by making use of the services provided by the third-party. 

From these outstanding features, source code will not be a big deal to specialists anymore. And they do not have to struggle to know the operations of other solutions. All they have to do is simply connect their software to another one. Put another way, APIs can be considered an abstraction layer between two systems, covering the complexity, and working details of the latter.

### What is API testing?
API testing concentrates on the so-called business layer of the application. It means that the testing methods will be completely different from the standard GUI testing. Hence, rather than making use of keyboard strokes and mouse clicks as standard input, in API testing, it will be necessary to use some other testing patterns, use some testing tools, or your code to check these APIs by doing a test. 

It is also important to validate the responses (output) from these APIs to confirm whether or not they are performing well. The awareness of the response that an API creates is crucial to grasp what to look for.

An API response will be a status message or Boolean value (for instance, success/error, or true/false, etc.) that will represent the API call's status. It will also serve as a flag (true/false), and then the update of the Presentation layer or the Database layer will occur. Alternatively, an API response will also be a set of data that is to be passed on to the following API, the GUI, or the Database.

## How to test Shopify orders with the REST Admin API?

### Step 1: Creating a Shopify order
The first step is to create an order with an authorization transaction by sending a POST request to the Order resource. By doing this, you will be able to test orders. You can add the object of the transactions in the body of the request:

**POST** `{% raw %}https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2021-01/orders.json{% endraw %}`

```
{% raw %}
{
  "order": {
    "email": " ",
    "financial_status": "pending",
    "line_items": [
      {
        "title": "Big Brown Bear Boots",
        "price": 100,
        "grams": "1300",
        "quantity": 2,
        "tax_lines": [
          {
            "price": 13.5,
            "rate": 0.06,
            "title": "State tax"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "transactions": [
      {
        "kind": "authorization",
        "status": "success",
        "amount": 200
      }
    ]
  }
}
{% endraw %}
```

### Step 2: Getting a transaction ID
Once you have created the order, the returned Order object will contain an ID. After that, you can make use of the order ID to return the transaction and its ID. You can send a GET request to the Order Transaction resource to recover the transaction:

**GET** `{% raw %}https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2021-01/orders/{order_id}/transactions.json{% endraw %}`

### Step 3: Capturing the transaction
ow that you have returned the transaction, you can generate a capture transaction to capture payment by making use of its ID. To do this, you can send a Transaction object in the body of a POST request to the Order Transaction resource with the authorization's transaction ID as the parent_id and the test property set to true:

**POST** `{% raw %}https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2021-01/orders/{order_id}/transactions.json{% endraw %}`

```
{% raw %}
{
  "transaction": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "amount": "200.00",
    "kind": "capture",
    "parent_id": 1458851250232,
    "test": "true"
  }
}
{% endraw %}
```

### Step 4: Confirming the test order
If you successfully follow the three simple steps, then you can proceed to the last step: Confirm the test order. To confirm that it is in test mode, you can retrieve the order. The response will contain the test property set to true if the order is a test order.

**GET** `{% raw %}https://{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/2021-01/orders/{order_id}.json{% endraw %}`

## Conclusion
To conclude, we have described to you the definition of the order, API, API testing, and **How to test Shopify orders with the REST Admin API**. We hope that by this step-by-step guide, you will be able to test your order effortlessly.

Also, if you need to check the performance of your checkout process and settings for order processing, inventory, shipping, and taxes; then you can place a test order by imitating a transaction on Shopify. For more details about this process, you can visit our post: [How to Place Test Order on Shopify by Simulating Transaction](https://avada.io/shopify/docs/how-place-test-order-by-simulating-transaction-shopify.html).

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