View, Search, and Sort Orders – ShipStation

Methods for managing the list of orders in the Order grid with controlling the view, sorting or using search.

This article contains:

Explanation of Order Statuses
How to search orders in ShipStation
- Use Quicksearch orders in ShipStation
How to sort orders in ShipStation

Once you have orders in ShipStation, you can view and manage them in the Orders tab.

Closeup of Toolbar. Red box highlights Orders tab.

ShipStation offers several ways to view, search, and sort your orders so you can find the orders you need when you need them. This article discusses viewing your orders based on order status, using the search tool, and sorting methods available in the orders grid.

To learn how to use filters, review the Filter Orders article.

The left-hand sidebar displays the various order statuses available to your orders. ShipStation displays Awaiting Shipment orders by default. Review the Order Statuses section below for a more thorough explanation of your ShipStation order statuses.

Order Statuses

A reference list of the various order statuses found on the ShipStation orders tab and their definitions.

Order statuses indicate the state your order is in. If the order is paid for and ready to ship, the status of the order in ShipStation should be Awaiting Shipment. Most of your orders will import directly into this status.

Red box highlights list of all Orders tab statuses

Depending on the stores you connect, orders can also import into other statuses.

Status	Details
Awaiting Payment	Any order indicating it is unpaid will import into Awaiting Payment. Not all stores support importing unpaid orders. Check our Integrations Help articles for order import details specific to your selling channels. ShipStation will update the order status to Awaiting Shipment when the store sends updated information indicating the order has been paid for. Or, you can manually mark the order as paid. You cannot create labels for orders that are in the Awaiting Payment status!
On Hold	On Hold orders are orders that you wish to move out of the Awaiting Shipment status so your shippers don't accidentally ship them before they are ready. For example, if an order contains an item for an out-of-stock product or has a fraud alert, you can move it to On Hold until you are ready to ship it. You can manually put orders on hold at any time, or use an automation rule to move orders to the On Hold status when they import. A few stores, like Magento, do support an On Hold status and can send that status to ShipStation as well. Check our Integrations Help articles to see specific details about your selling channel.
Awaiting Shipment	Ready to ship orders will import into the Awaiting Shipment status. This is where most of your order management will take place.
Pending Fulfillment	Orders that are sent to fulfillment but not yet fulfilled will move to Pending Fulfillment. Additionally, Amazon Seller Fulfilled Prime orders will import as Pending Fulfillment, unless Amazon Buy Shipping has been enabled in the ShipStation account.
Shipped	Once you print a label for an order, ShipStation will move the order into the Shipped status to indicate no more work needs to be done on this order. Also, orders will move here when you mark them as shipped. ShipStation can import Shipped orders from your store so you can have a complete reporting of shipped orders in ShipStation.
Cancelled	Any order you cancel in ShipStation will be moved to the Cancelled status. ShipStation can also import cancelled orders from your store so you can have a complete reporting of cancelled orders in ShipStation. However, ShipStation does not notify your store when you cancel orders in ShipStation. For this reason, we recommend cancelling orders in your selling channel and then refreshing ShipStation, to ensure the order status matches on both platforms. The exception to this rule for Jet sellers. For orders that imported from Jet.com, ShipStation will notify Jet of the cancelation.

The statuses for orders on your store may not exactly match the statuses ShipStation uses. That's because ShipStation statuses relate directly to your shipping workflow, which might require different statuses than what your store provides. ShipStation uses a process called mapping to determine which store statuses correspond to which ShipStation statuses.

For example, the status on your store for an order that is ready to ship might be Paid, Unfulfilled, or Authorized. ShipStation imports orders with these statuses into Awaiting Shipment.

Once you ship an order or mark it as shipped in ShipStation, however, we send a notification to your store so the store will update the order and the status of the order remains consistent between both ShipStation and your store platform.

Order Statuses in Your Stores

Each store handles order statuses according to their own standards, and not all stores support all statuses.

For details on supported features and statuses, as well as limitations for specific store platforms, review our Store & Marketplace Integrations articles for the stores you connect to ShipStation.

Search Orders

ShipStation has two search options for orders:

Use the Quicksearch field to quickly search for orders based on Recipient Name, Order Item, SKU, Order Number, or other criteria. Quicksearch is a Starts-with style search in the Orders tab, meaning the results of the search are items that start with the search value.
Use the Advanced Search when you want to search across all or specific order statuses by combining filtering options and date criteria. Advanced search is a Contains style search for specific criteria in the Orders tab.

Notes About Using Search

Quicksearch is limited to searching for orders less than six months old.
Advanced Search defaults to searching orders less than three months old, but you can customize the date filter to search orders as far back as when you started your account.

Quicksearch Orders

Use the Quicksearch to locate orders with the following information:

Order Number
Buyer Name
Recipient Name
Company Name
Buyer Email Address
Username (the User's ID from a store or marketplace)
Recipient City
Recipient State
Recipient Address Line 1
Item Name
Item SKU
Tracking Number

Red box highlights Search field at top of Sidebar

To help understand how the Quicksearch function works...

Quicksearch is a starts-with style search. That means, if you get an order from Saul Teesnak, ShipStation will break that name down into Saul and Teesnak. You'd be able to search for this order using Saul Teesnak, Saul, Teesnak, etc. However, you wouldn't find this order by searching for snak because the snak chunk starts with Tee.

The same applies to order numbers separated by dashes. The order number 121-657485676-89705 gets broken down into 121, 657485676, and 89705. You'd be able to find this order by typing in the whole order number, a chunk, or the beginning of any chunk.

You won't be able to Quicksearch for the last few digits of an order number, so use Advanced Search for this instead.

Advanced Search Orders

Follow the steps below to perform an advanced search.

Click Advanced Search in the left-hand sidebar of the Orders grid.
Select the criteria for your search, then click Search.

See the table below for explanations of available search criteria.
Choose Reset to reset all fields and begin a new search, or select Exit Advanced Search and return to the regular view on the Orders grid.

The following table lists the criteria and parameters available in an advanced search.

Criteria	Parameters
Order Status	Awaiting Payment On Hold Awaiting Shipment Pending Fulfillment Shipped Cancelled Note Pending Fulfillment is an option only when you have enabled the Import FBA Orders option in your Amazon Store Settings.
Store	(Any) is the default state, meaning we search all stores. When you expand no stores are selected. When you select your first store, it will change (Any) to that store's name. When you select 2 or more it will update to 2 of x selected
Order #	Acts as a 'Contains' search, not a 'Starts with' search No character limits
Recipient Name or Email search	Acts as a 'Contains' search Email MUST have the @ to search: accounting@ will work, @dundermifflin.com will work, but accounting or dundermifflin.com will not work. No character limits
Item Name	Acts as a 'Contains' search, not a 'Starts with' search No character limits
Item SKU	Acts as a 'Contains' search, not a 'Starts with' search No character limits
Item Option (Value)	This search can only be done in the Advanced Search. It is not an existing filter in ShipStation. Search results display what the customer selected, not the item option name. Item options and their corresponding values work as key:value pairs. Keys (e.g. ‘Flavor’ in red) CANNOT be searched, but the values (‘Peach’ in green) CAN be searched. In searching for your favorite drink, you’d want ‘Peach ’a specific value listed under the broad category of options (key) called ‘Flavor’. In the example shown below, item options like ‘Flavor’ are the key, and the value is ‘Peach’.
Order Date (From and To fields)	By default we fill in the past 3 months. Click the calendar icon by the From and To fields, then select the date, or type the date into these fields.

Sort Orders

Use the column headers in the Orders grid to sort orders by to criteria like Order Date, Age, Recipient Name, or other order information.

Click-and-drag columns to arrange them in any sequence you prefer. Scroll the screen left or right to view all columns.

Click the title text (for example, Age, Item Name, or Store) in a column header to sort that column's contents in either ascending or descending order (alphabetical, chronological, numerical).

GIF shows click on header to sort Age & Item SKU columns. A to Z, & Z to A

If you do not see a column you'd like to view:

Click the Columns drop-down menu.
Select the column(s) you'd like to display in the Orders grid, and deselect any you do not want to see.
Scroll to the right to see the columns added to the grid.

Click and drag to arrange them in your desired sequence.