How to create a rule
Open Recheck and click on Rules in the left menu.
If you’ve created rules before, you’ll see them listed here with their status and priority order. If this is your first rule, click Create first rule.
Give the rule a name.
This is for your own reference and isn’t shown to customers. A name is required. Keep it short so it stays readable in the rules list. Two to five words works well.
Add one or more conditions.
Conditions decide which orders the rule applies to. Each rule needs at least one. The condition types are listed below.
Set your overrides.
Choose a different editing window for matching orders, and turn specific settings or modules on or off.
How rules are matched
Recheck checks your rules from top to bottom and applies the first one whose conditions match the order. Later rules are skipped for that order. If no rule matches, your global settings and modules apply. The number on each row (#1, #2, and so on) is its priority. To change priority, drag the handle on a row to reorder the list. The new order takes effect right away. Inactive rules are skipped during matching, so you can pause a rule without deleting it. Recheck checks your rules again each time the customer opens the edit page and every time they confirm an edit. Some conditions, like order value, can change while a customer edits, so the rule that matches an order can change part way through. If the newly matching rule blocks the edit the customer started, they’ll see an error when they try to confirm it.Conditions
A condition has three parts: what you’re matching on, an operator, and a value. You can add as many as you need, and each rule needs at least one. The condition types:- Country. Match the order’s shipping country, with is / is not.
- Order value. Match the order total, including tax and shipping, with greater than / less than / equals.
- Order age. Match how long ago the order was placed, in minutes, hours, or days.
- Shipping method. Match the shipping method the customer chose at checkout.
- Day of week. Match the day the order was placed, in a timezone you choose.
- Time window. Match orders placed within or outside a time range, in a timezone you choose.
Combining conditions
When a rule has more than one condition, choose whether the order has to match all conditions (AND) or any condition (OR). You can also add a condition group to mix the two. For example: Country is US, AND Order value is greater than $200, AND a group of (Order age is less than 2 hours OR Shipping method is Express). Groups can be one level deep.Editing window override
By default, matching orders use your global order editing window. Turn on “Override editing window for this rule” to set a different one. The options are:- Until fulfilled. The order stays editable until it’s marked fulfilled in Shopify.
- Until specific time. A recurring cutoff at a set time on the days you choose. For example, a 9:00 AM cutoff on Monday to Friday means an order placed Friday evening stays editable until Monday 9:00 AM.
- Custom. A fixed length of time you set.
- No editing. Turns off editing for matching orders. When you pick this, the settings and modules overrides are hidden, since there’s nothing left to edit.
Settings and modules overrides
Each setting or module you can override has three buttons: Default, On, and Off.- Default follows your current global setting. If you change that global setting later, matching orders follow the change.
- On or Off pins the value for this rule and ignores the global from then on.
Rules can’t override order editing restrictions yet. Those still apply based on your global settings.
Example use cases
- Faster shipping, tighter window. Give Express orders a short editing window so they make the carrier cutoff, and Standard orders a longer one.
- Protect high-value orders. On orders above a set amount, turn off Cancel order and the decrease quantity / remove product modules, and send any refund out as store credit.
- International orders. Lock shipping address edits and self-serve cancellation on orders shipping abroad, and force refunds to store credit.
- Weekend and overnight orders. Keep orders placed outside working hours editable until your team is back online, so fulfillment doesn’t start before someone can catch a customer edit.
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