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Daily Orders Brief

/orders-today  A morning brief of what needs doing in orders: new, to fulfil, on hold, returns pending, and anything odd.

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Add opens your Shopify admin with the skill prefilled; review it there and click Add. If nothing appears, use Copy and follow the steps below.

The skill

Suggested shortcut: /orders-today
Give me today's orders brief, shop timezone.

## Steps
1. Count orders placed since midnight yesterday, orders paid and unfulfilled, orders on hold, orders with a return requested or in progress, and orders awaiting payment.
2. List orders that need a decision today: unfulfilled for more than 2 days, high risk, address problems, or notes from the customer.
3. Flag anomalies: an order over 3 times the average order value, a customer with more than 3 orders today, or a product that sold out overnight.

## Output
Five counts on one line, then a short table of orders needing a decision with order number, reason, total. Then anomalies or "None."

Do not change any order in this skill.
How to add it to Sidekick
  1. Click Add to Sidekick above. Your Shopify admin opens with the skill ready to review. Click Add. Done.
  2. If the button does nothing in your store: click Copy skill, open Sidekick in your admin, type /, choose Create new skill, name the shortcut orders-today, paste the text as the instructions, and save.
  3. To run it, type /orders-today in Sidekick. Sidekick keeps up to 25 skills; manage yours from the skills menu.

What you get

A brief that replaces clicking through five order filters every morning.

When to use it

First thing each day, before fulfilment starts.

Variations

  • “Include yesterday’s sales line” merges it with /yesterday-sales.

Limits

Return requests only appear if you use Shopify’s returns feature; app-based returns are not visible.

Status: Written for Sidekick but not yet run on a live store. Results may need a second prompt. Time saved: about 10 min / day.

Author: MerchantSkill · License: CC0, no attribution needed · Updated: 19 Sept 2026 · Raw markdown

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