This guide covers how to build that logic using three built-in MESA tools: Filter, Paths, and Approvals.<\/p>\n\n\n Table of Contents:<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n![\"shopify](\"https:\/\/www.getmesa.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/shopify-order-routing.png\")
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As soon as you have more than one place orders can ship from, every order becomes a decision. Does this one go to your warehouse or your 3PL? If a product belongs to a specific vendor, does your fulfillment partner even handle it, or does the vendor ship direct? What about high-value orders that someone should review before anything moves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At low order volumes, you make these calls manually. You read each order, figure out where it should go, and send it there. That works until it doesn’t. When order volume increases, someone makes the wrong call, or an order slips through on a busy day and nobody notices until a customer follows up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 3PL market is growing fast. Mordor Intelligence estimates it at over $1.2 trillion globally<\/a> and expanding steadily. That means more stores are adding fulfillment partners and running into this exact problem. Shopify has native order routing<\/a> for assigning orders to locations by proximity or priority ranking. That covers the simple cases. Custom vendor logic, conditional approval flows, and mixed-cart orders require something more flexible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This guide covers how to build that logic using three built-in MESA tools: Filter, Paths, and Approvals.<\/p>\n\n\n Table of Contents:<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n