Shopify Order Tags

Timesact automatically tags pre-order orders in Shopify. Those tags let you filter your Orders list down to just pre-orders and save that as a permanent view, so you can find and work them in one place instead of hunting through every order. This is all in Shopify.

The tags Timesact adds

When a pre-order is placed, Timesact tags the Shopify order automatically, you do not add these by hand:

• Pre-order — added to every order that contains a pre-order item.
• Partial Pre-order — added in addition to Pre-order when the order was paid with a partial payment, so it still has a balance owing.

These are standard Shopify order tags. They appear on the order, and you can use them in filters, in saved views, in Shopify Flow, and in order exports.

Filter your orders by the tag

1. In your Shopify admin, go to Orders.
2. Click Add filter.
3. Choose Tagged with, then select the tag, for example Pre-order.
4. The list now shows only orders with that tag. You can stack filters, for example add Unfulfilled to see pre-orders still to ship, or filter on Partial Pre-order to see only those with a balance owing.

Save it as a view

So you do not have to rebuild the filter each time:

1. With the filter applied, click Save as at the top of the Orders list.
2. Give the view a name, for example "Pre-orders" or "Partial pre-orders".
3. Save. It now appears as its own tab at the top of the Orders page, one click to open anytime.

What you can do with this

• Keep a "Pre-orders" view to pull up everything waiting on stock, then fulfill them together when the stock lands.
• Keep a "Partial pre-orders" view to see at a glance which orders still owe a balance to collect.
• Because they are real tags, you can also trigger Shopify Flow automations on them (for example, act on every Pre-order tagged order) and filter by them when exporting orders.

Important

• The tags are applied by Timesact at the moment the order is created. If you remove a tag manually, you lose it from that order, so leave them in place if you rely on the views.
• Timesact also tags orders for its other features (for example an In-stock tag), so to build a pre-order-only view, filter specifically on Pre-order rather than a broader tag.

Updated on: 07/01/2026