Shopify API 2024 – How To Send An Invoice For The Draft Order Using Postman

Send  A Custom Invoice

When the draft order doesn’t contain customer information, you need to send a custom invoice for your customer. Follow the steps below to learn how to do it.

Step 1: Generate API Credentials From The Shopify Admin

If this is the first time you make a call in the Postman, you must generate API credentials from the Shopify admin. Follow the process of How to build a custom app for Shopify in 2022? To know how to access Shopify API. 

• • After creating an app, you must assign “Draft orders” scopes to the admin API scopes. 

• • Remember the Admin API access token and the API key to create a draft order in the Postman. 

Step 2: Send A Customized Invoice For The Draft Order Using Postman

Before sending a customized invoice, you need to get the draft order ID because the send invoice call contains the ID of the draft order.

Example: The #D71 draft order ID = 878550614079

We are ready to send a customized invoice for the draft order using Postman.

• • Log in to your Postman and create a new workspace

• • Create a new POST with this URL:

https://{API_key}:{admin_API_access_token}@{shop}.myshopify.com/admin/api/{api-version}/{resource}.json

1. 1. {API_key} – The API key that you generated.

1. 1. {admin_API_access_token} – The admin API access token that you generated.

1. 1. {shop} – The name of your development store.

1. 1. {api-version} – The supported API version that you want to use.

1. 1. {resource} – A resource endpoint from the REST Admin API.

Or you can copy this example in the Shopify Admin, remember to change {resource} to {draft_orders/draft order_id/send_invoice}:

https://ed86d512a2c95387ffa25f67074a222b:[email protected]/admin/api/2021-10/draft_orders/878550614079/send_invoice.json

• • Paste the URL above.

In the body section, click raw → Choose JSON, then enter the code

{
    "draft_order_invoice": {
        "to": "[email protected]",
        "from": "[email protected]",
        "bcc": ["[email protected]"],
        "subject": "shirt Invoice",
        "custom_message": "Thank you for ordering!"
    }
}

Note: You must have a customer email to enter the code in the body section. 

Then click Send

Response:

The API will return the data like this.

{
    "draft_order_invoice": {
        "to": "[email protected]",
        "from": "[email protected]",
        "subject": "shirt Invoice",
        "custom_message": "Thank you for ordering!",
        "bcc": [
            "[email protected]"
        ]
    }
}

Step 3: Verify the result

In the admin dashboard, go to the orders → Click on drafts

As you can see, the draft order has been sent an invoice successfully. 

After sending the invoice for the draft order, you can make due the invoice later by going to orders, choosing drafts, click on the draft order you just sent the invoice. Then scroll down to the payment area. Click on the payment due later; after that, you can customize the payment term that suits your business.

Hexasync

After the customer pays and the owner accepts payment, the draft order will automatically change to the order on the order page. This order will be easy to manage with one selling channel. But if you have a lot of orders from different multiple sell channels, you will waste a lot of time and money to manage it: Check order information and revenue,… from each channel one by one. 

Thanks to Hexasync, all information about products will be synchronized. You look at all product information on one channel. 

Hexasync will save your business a lot of resources from time to money, and you can completely customize Hexasync’s integration solutions to suit your business.

Final words

Above are all steps to send an invoice for the draft order with Shopify API. Please comment below or refer to our Shopify API documentation if you have any questions.

If you still do not understand the tutorial’s content, you can watch the video below for a more overview.

Hopefully, you can do it!