Delivery dates on your orders

When a customer picks a delivery date and completes checkout, AppsTint saves that date on the order so you can see it in your Shopify admin and use it for fulfilment, Flow automations, and exports.

Where the date appears on an order

Open any order in your Shopify admin. The chosen date is saved in two places:

1. Additional details — a note labelled with the calendar's name (for example, "Delivery" or "Frozen"). This is the easiest place to spot the date when picking and packing.
2. Metafields / date field — a proper dated field on the order, named after the calendar. Because it's a real date field, you can use it in Shopify Flow, order filters, and exports (CSV, fulfilment apps, and so on). The field is also readable from your storefront and notification emails, and on the customer's own order page.

Each calendar uses its name for both the note and the metafield, so if you run multiple calendars an order can carry more than one delivery date, each clearly labelled.

The Orders calendar in the app

For day-to-day planning, use the built-in Orders view:

Apps → AppsTint → Delivery Calendar → your calendar → Orders

• A month grid showing how many orders are booked for each date
• Click a date to see the list of orders for that day
• Products are grouped by the calendar they belong to

This is the quickest way to see your fulfilment workload for any day.

When the date appears

When customers pick the date during checkout, it's copied onto the order automatically the moment the order is created, so the date field is populated right away. As a backup, the note is always written too. If you've just placed a test order and don't see the metafield field yet, refresh the order page after a moment.

Check the metafield permissions

AppsTint creates the order metafield for each calendar automatically when you save the calendar. To confirm the options are set correctly in Shopify:

1. Go to Settings → Custom data → Orders.
2. Open the metafield named after your calendar (for example, Delivery or Frozen).
3. Make sure these options are enabled:
   • Copy values from matching cart metafields — so the date chosen at checkout is copied onto the order when it's created.
   • Storefront API access — so the date can be used in your theme, Liquid, and notification emails.
   • Customer Account API access — so the date can appear on the customer's order status page.

AppsTint turns these on for you. If any are off (for example after a manual edit), turn them back on and save.

Check it with a test order

1. Place a test order on your store and pick a delivery date.
2. Open the order in your Shopify admin.
3. Look under Additional details for the note labelled with the calendar's name.
4. Look in the order's Metafields for the matching date field.

If you can see the note but not the metafield field straight away, wait a few seconds and refresh — it's still being saved.

Next step

Make sure customers can't skip the date: Checkout gate →