How to Use the Order Fulfillment App

The Order Fulfillment App will be your central dashboard of modules that connect to various platforms where you might be selling your printed products. Its primary function is to allow you to transfer orders from your store to FinerWorks. Modules that are currently under active development will be grayed out and will be available soon.

Table of Contents

  1. Video
  2. Initial Setup
  3. My Company
  4. Ship Preferences
  5. Billing
  6. Virtual Inventory
  7. Modules
  8. FAQs

Video

The FinerWorks Order Fulfillment App is currently available for beta testing. This video provides a general orientation and walks you through of the different features.

Initial Setup

Click the Launch Wizard Setup button to begin setting up your account for Order Fulfillment. Note: You will be directed to log in to your FinerWorks account first.

My Company

Set up your business profile. The logo is optional. Note, non-U.S.-based businesses can still use their company name but will need to use FinerWorks’ or another U.S.-based address in the address fields.

Ship Preferences

Select your shipping preference. Note, these are preferences and are used by our system to determine which shipping method you want us to use. You can easily override these preferences when you import orders.

Billing

Add a Payment method as well as your billing address.

Virtual Inventory

 

For platforms that support exporting your virtual inventory as products, you will be able to select from your virtual inventory and publish it as products to those platforms.

Modules

These are various third-party platforms or storefronts that you can connect to the Order Fulfillment App.

Once setup has been completed, return to the home screen or go to My Stores and click the icon to connect your store. Each platform may have its own unique process. Once connected, you can import orders from those platforms. Note that the Excel option does not require any sort of connection. Platforms that are currently under development to be supported will be grayed out. Once any other 3rd party platform is connected, it will display a connected message.

Documentation for Various Modules

FAQs

WooCommerce

The plugin allows you to sync your WooCommerce store with FinerWorks, enabling automated order fulfillment for your print-on-demand products. When a customer places an order on your site, it can be automatically submitted to FinerWorks for printing and dropshipping.

You’ll need the following:

  • An active WooCommerce store on a WordPress site
  • A FinerWorks account
  • Access credentials (web api key and app key available via your FinerWorks account)

When you set up your billing and payment methods, each time your orders are successfully received by FinerWorks, the payment method you set up within your FinerWorks account will be billed.

You can configure your shipping preferences (how you want us to ship orders to your customers) within the Order Fulfillment App or your WooCommerce Integration. When doing so, we will attempt to ship the order via the method you prefer.

If you have Auto Export configured within the FinerWorks plugin, and your products are synced with your virtual inventory, any new orders will be retrieved based on the schedule you set.

After the order is placed, FinerWorks will update the order with pertinent status information as well as update the order with appropriate shipping information.

Yes, you can choose not to use the Auto Export tool within the FinerWorks plugin and choose the orders you want to export. Alternatively, you can utilize the FinerWorks Order Fulfillment App to retrieve orders from your WooCommerce store.

Only if you want to use the Auto Export tool will syncing your products to your virtual inventory be necessary. Without that, we will not know what products to print and ship. Syncing involved making sure that your Virtual Inventory sku, matches your WooCommerce product sku.

A product code can come in handy when it comes to speeding up the process however, you will need to manually export your orders or use the Order Fulfillment App to select the orders you want us to process.

The plugin is free to download and install. You will only be charged for orders placed for fulfillment.

If you are testing your connection via the plugin and you get a connection failed message, check the logs in the FinerWorks plugin menu. It will usually provide some sort of insight as to why you cannot connect your plugin to FinerWorks.

Here are the most likely reasons:

  • Incorrect / missing web api or app key
  • Business profile incomplete*
  • Billing & payment profile incomplete*
  • Shipping preferences incomplete*

The last three should be completed via the Order Fulfillment App.

If you still have issues connecting, reach out to our customer service team.

Category: WooCommerce

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