Notes from the Altera team on Altera - Matrixify-Compatible Import & Export Tool for Shopify

How to Import Orders to Shopify: A Complete CSV Guide

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

You went looking for Import orders in the Shopify admin and there isn’t one. Shopify imports products, customers, inventory, and gift cards, but not orders. The reason isn’t a missing feature. Orders touch customers, products, inventory, payments, and notifications, so a sloppy import touches all of them, and Shopify would rather force you to choose your tooling than ship a half-safe button.

This guide covers the most common version of the job: moving order history from one Shopify store to another with a CSV.

Shopify Variant Inventory Policy: Continue vs Deny Explained

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +0000

You opened a variant in the Shopify admin and saw a checkbox labeled Continue selling when out of stock, tucked away under More details. Or, worse, you exported a CSV and saw a column called Variant Inventory Policy with the values continue and deny, and Shopify’s own documentation barely explains what either one does.

It’s a small setting with a big consequence: whether your store can sell what it doesn’t have. Here’s what each value actually does, when to use which, and how to flip it across the whole catalog without spending an afternoon clicking through variants one at a time.