The Scenario
The shipping manager's team picked and packed 80 orders today. By 4:30 PM, all 80 tracking numbers are entered into an Excel workbook — order ID in column A, carrier in column B, tracking number in column C. Shopify fulfillments need to be created for all 80 orders so customer shipping notifications go out before 5 PM, when the carrier cutoff happens.
The shipping manager has never created fulfillments in bulk before. She tried the Shopify admin. She created three. At this rate, she'll finish somewhere around 7 PM.
The bad version:
- Open the first order in Shopify admin, scroll to the fulfillment section, click Fulfill items, enter the tracking number, select the carrier from the dropdown, confirm, save.
- Navigate back to the orders list, search for the next order ID.
- 80 times. With carrier dropdown hunting on every single one because the default selection doesn't persist.
Customer notifications are tied to fulfillment creation. Every minute of delay is a customer waiting for their shipping email.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the tracking data and submits each Shopify fulfillment via the API — no admin navigation, no dropdown hunting, no session timeouts.
Read my Shipping Manifest Excel sheet and fulfill all Shopify orders in column A with the tracking numbers in column C, using carrier code from column B — write fulfillment status into column D
What You Get
- A Shopify fulfillment created for each order in the manifest, with the carrier and tracking number applied from the workbook.
- Shopify customer shipping notification emails trigger automatically for each fulfilled order.
- Column D updated with "fulfilled" for each success and an error message for any order that couldn't be fulfilled.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
The workbook has orders from multiple warehouse locations that need to be fulfilled at the correct location
Read my Shipping Manifest Excel sheet and create Shopify fulfillments for each row — use order ID (A), carrier (B), tracking (C), and location ID (D) — write fulfillment status into column E
Some orders may already be fulfilled from a partial run earlier today
Read my Shipping Manifest Excel sheet and create Shopify fulfillments for each row where column D is blank — skip any order in column A that is already fulfilled in Shopify — write 'fulfilled' or 'already fulfilled' into column D
A subset of orders needs to be marked as locally delivered with no tracking number
Read my Shipping Manifest Excel sheet and create Shopify fulfillments for each row — if column B says 'local-delivery', set notify_customer to false and skip tracking number — otherwise use tracking in column C and carrier in column B — write result into column D
Skip already-fulfilled, handle local delivery, set location, and write timestamps
Read my Shipping Manifest Excel sheet and for each row where column D is blank, create a Shopify fulfillment — if column B is 'local-delivery', fulfill with no tracking and notify_customer false; otherwise use carrier (B), tracking (C), location from cell G1 — skip orders already fulfilled — write 'fulfilled' and the timestamp into column D
Handling the local delivery edge case inline means you don't need a separate pass for those orders before running the main fulfillment batch.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the daily shipping manifest workbook at 4:30 PM, then ask SheetXAI to create all 80 fulfillments before the carrier cutoff. Tomorrow's pack run will use the same prompt. Also worth reading: how to export order and fulfillment status data for financial reconciliation, or the hub overview for all Shopify workflows.