Introduction

Orderkraft is a Shopify app for merchants who sell made-to-order products: things that get built when a customer buys, not pulled off a shelf. It connects the production side of your business to the storefront, so the delivery date a customer sees on the product page is one your shop floor can actually hit.

What Orderkraft does today

Orderkraft adds four things to a Shopify store:

• A way to mark Shopify products as made-to-order, with a bill of materials, a production time, and a dock-to-stock time
• A catalog of raw materials and components inside Orderkraft, which become the inputs to a bill of materials
• A theme app block that shows the lead time on the product page so customers see the realistic shipping window before they check out
• A Shopify fulfillment constraint that ships stocked items immediately and made-to-order items once production wraps

There’s also a dashboard with MTO revenue, MTO orders, and average lead time over the last 30 days, with comparison against the previous 30.

Who Orderkraft is for

Orderkraft fits Shopify merchants whose products are built per order: furniture, apparel made to spec, equipment with build options, anything where the unit being sold doesn’t exist when the order is placed.

If your inventory is stable and you ship from stock, Orderkraft won’t add much. If you’re patching Shopify with spreadsheets, automations, and someone in ops who knows what to do when, it’s likely worth a look.

What’s not in here yet

These docs cover what Orderkraft is, how it fits with Shopify, and how to set it up. They don’t cover advanced production planning, capacity, or scheduling, because those aren’t features today. The docs will grow with the app.