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Set a production location

This step is optional, but most merchants want it. Telling Orderkraft where production happens keeps made-to-order items from getting tangled up with regular stock, and it’s what makes split shipments work the way you’d expect.

Why it matters

Orderkraft needs to know where your made-to-order items are produced. Without it, every order goes through the same fulfillment path as your stocked inventory. With it:

  • Made-to-order items can be assigned to your production facility instead of your warehouse
  • Your 3PL or WMS doesn’t see the order until production is complete
  • You can run separate KPIs for production locations versus retail or fulfillment ones

If you ship from the same place you produce, that’s fine too. You just mark the location as Fulfillment & Production.

Three location types

Every location in Orderkraft has a type:

  • Fulfillment is a regular Shopify location that ships stocked inventory. This is the default for every location after install.
  • Production is a production-only facility. It doesn’t ship stocked inventory.
  • Fulfillment & Production is both. You produce here and you also ship from here.

The type is stored as a metafield on the Shopify location, so it’s visible to any other app that respects metafields.

Steps

If you already have a Shopify location for production:

  1. Open Orderkraft and go to Locations.
  2. Find the location and click Edit.
  3. Pick the location type (Production or Fulfillment & Production).
  4. Click Save.

If you don’t have a Shopify location for production yet:

  1. Add the location in Shopify first (Settings → Locations → Add location). If you produce out of an existing warehouse, duplicate it and add “(Production)” to the name so it’s distinct.
  2. Wait a moment for it to sync to Orderkraft, then follow the steps above.

You can mark more than one location as Production. Orderkraft will choose between them based on the rules you set for each made-to-order product.

What’s next

If you’d like made-to-order items to ship separately from the rest of an order, enable split shipments.