Admin-created Orders

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I would like to be able to create new Orders from the Admin UI.

Use cases:

• Customer phones up and wants to place an order
• Customer comes in person to place an order
• Put together a special order for a customer manually
• Testing promotions

Describe the solution you’d like In the Admin API there should be a createOrder mutation, followed by the familiar addItemToOrder etc mutations, but with the difference that they would take an order ID rather than using the implicit session-bound Order like in the Shop API.

[cdiban-loads]

Thanks @michaelbromley. This feature is very helpful for us. In our case, we still have the requirement for an arbitrary price.

Again, thanks for all.

[michaelbromley]

@cdiban-loads An implementation of this is coming in the v1.8 imminently. I’ve not included the ability to set an arbitrary price on a variant, because this would add quite a bit more complexity to the implementation and I’d rather introduce these changes in smaller batches.

But the current implementation will use the exact same internal mechanisms as when an order is placed via the Shop API, so any custom calculation strategy should work exactly the same.

Let’s see how this next version fits your needs and let me know if there is still the requirement for arbitrary pricing, as this would then be a separate issue.