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fabric Orders is a distributed order management (DOM) platform that helps you manage the order fulfillment process and provide inventory details, order fulfillment, and customer service. The Manage Orders feature helps you to create real-time orders in the orders database, unify order data, get existing order information, track orders, update orders, add additional products to an order, process cancellations, returns, and exchanges. Additionally, you can use this feature to flag fraudulent orders, which then can be either released from hold or canceled.

Order Statuses

You can find the order status on the Orders and Orders > Basic details page. These statuses describe the current status of an individual order within the order lifecycle. The following table describes each order status:

Payment Statuses

You can find the payment status on the Orders page. These statuses describe the current payment status of an order within the order lifecycle. The following table describes each payment status:

Allocation Statuses

Allocations serve as fulfillment location records and are used by Warehouse Management Services (WMS) or Point of Sales Services (POS). If an allocation is not acknowledged, you can use the acknowledge shipment endpoint to set up alerts to warn operators of the issue. You can find the Allocation Status on the Allocation and Orders > Allocations page. This status describes the current allocation status of each individual SKU. The following table describes each allocation status:

Shipment Statuses

You can find the Shipment status on the Shipment, Orders > Shipments, and Orders > Basic details pages. When shipping multiple items from different locations or carriers, each group of items in an order is assigned a separate shipment status.
fabric Shipment APIs rely on the Allocation service to send allocation details to external merchant systems after an order is placed.
The following table describes each shipment status:

Invoice Statuses

You can find the Invoice Status on the Invoice and Orders > Invoices page. When shipping multiple items from different locations or carriers, each group of items in an order is assigned a separate invoice status. The following table describes each invoice status: