Improve and Speed Up Shopify Order Picking

Shopify is great for selling, not for picking

Shopify is one of the most popular e-commerce platforms in the world, and rightly so. It is easy to use, looks professional, and scales with your growth. But there is one big gap in the Shopify experience: the warehouse.

Shopify offers no built-in order picking functionality. As soon as a customer checks out, you see an order in your dashboard. But how that order moves through your warehouse — from shelf to packing table — is something Shopify doesn't help you with.

Most Shopify merchants solve this with one of these methods:

• Printing packing slips and checking them off
• Displaying orders on a screen and picking manually
• Using a notebook or whiteboard

This works — until it doesn't. And that moment comes sooner than you think.

When does manual picking go wrong?

The problems usually start at one of these growth milestones:

More than 20 orders per day

Up to 20 orders, you can keep track. But as the flow increases, it becomes difficult to know which orders have already been picked and which haven't. Double picking or skipping orders becomes a realistic risk.

Multiple pickers in the warehouse

As soon as two or more employees pick at the same time, coordination problems arise. Who picks which order? Are they both processing the same order? Without a system, this is uncontrollable.

Similar products

Do you sell products in multiple variants — sizes, colors, flavors? Without barcode verification, it's only a matter of time before an employee grabs the wrong variant. The customer receives a blue shirt instead of a green shirt. Return, costs, dissatisfied customer.

Seasonal peaks

Around holidays, promotions, or product launches, order volume multiplies. Manual processes that normally just suffice collapse under the pressure. Errors triple, delivery times slip.

How OrderPiQR improves your Shopify fulfillment

OrderPiQR picks up where Shopify leaves off. The integration ensures that your Shopify orders are automatically imported into a digital pick queue. From that point, the software guides your employees through the picking process:

Step 1: Automatic order import

New Shopify orders automatically appear in OrderPiQR. No manual copying, no printing. Your picking team opens the app and immediately sees which orders are ready.

Step 2: Guided picking

For each product, the system shows the warehouse location, the product description, and the requested quantity. The employee is guided step by step to the right shelf — even if he or she doesn't know the warehouse.

Step 3: Barcode verification

The employee scans the product with the camera of a smartphone or tablet. Barcode correct? Green checkmark, on to the next item. Wrong product? Immediate warning. The error is intercepted before the product ends up in the box.

Step 4: Status feedback

As soon as the order is fully picked, the status in Shopify is updated automatically. Your customer receives the shipping confirmation without you having to adjust anything manually.

Setting up the integration

Connecting Shopify to OrderPiQR works via the Shopify API or via Zapier. Both options are configured within an hour:

• Shopify API: Generate API credentials in your Shopify admin panel and enter them in OrderPiQR. The most direct and fastest method.
• Zapier: Use Zapier as an intermediate layer if you want to add extra automations, such as notifications or filtering by product type.

See all connections on the integrations page.

What does it deliver?

Switching from manual to digital picking delivers concrete results:

• 80-90% fewer picking errors thanks to barcode verification
• Faster picking through optimized walking routes and clear instructions
• Lower return costs because customers receive the right product
• Faster onboarding of new employees — the system guides them
• Real-time insight into which orders have been processed and which are still open

No hardware, no installation

OrderPiQR runs entirely in the browser. Your employees use their own smartphone or a tablet you already have. No €300+ handheld scanner, no installation, no IT department needed.

This makes it particularly suitable for Shopify merchants who operate lean and don't want to invest in expensive warehouse equipment.

Start for free

The Shopify integration is available in all plans, including the free plan with 50 picks per month. Create a free account and connect your Shopify store today.

Also check the pricing page to see how costs scale with your order volume. Or read more about all available integrations.

Do you also sell on other platforms? Read how to connect WooCommerce to OrderPiQR or pick Bol.com orders automatically.