Customer Notifications
EasyRoutes can notify your customers when items are out for delivery, when their delivery has arrived, or if they missed a delivery.
Before making any deliveries we recommend you reviewing the Tracking and Notification settings in your EasyRoutes Settings.
If your customer checked out with Local Delivery, the Local Delivery notifications will be used, otherwise the Shipping notifications will be used. Refer to your store's notification settings for more details.
Note that Draft Orders will use Shipping notifications as at this time Shopify does not allow creating Local Delivery orders. If you wish to test Local Delivery notifications you will have to create a Local Delivery order by checking out using Local Delivery from your store.
Currently, we attempt to send a notification using your Shopify Notification templates for the following events - these events are mapped to states that are a part of a fulfilled order. EasyRoutes currently will attempt to fulfill your order for accessing these notifications.
| Notification | Action | Shipping | Local Delivery |
| Shipping Confirmation | Fulfilling an order with EasyRoutes (e.g. directly with Fulfill Orders button, or as you mark an order out for delivery/delivered/attempted) | ✅ (if Tracking Links are enabled in your Settings) | ✅ (if Tracking Links are enabled in your Settings) |
| Out for Delivery | Start Delivery Route, or "Out for Delivery" under More Actions | ✅ (if enabled in your Shopify Notification Settings)* | ✅ (if enabled in your Shopify Notification Settings) |
| Delivered | Mark as Delivered | ✅ (if enabled in your Shopify Notification Settings)* | ✅ (if enabled in your Shopify Notification Settings) |
| Missed Delivery | "Attempted Delivery" under More Actions | Does not send email (but you can see this status on your route) | ✅ (if enabled in your Shopify Notification Settings) |
*For SMS notifications, here's the article in the Shopify Help Centre on the topic. The Out for Delivery and Delivered notifications through Shopify on SMS are only available to orders that are shipping using Shopify's Local Delivery method.
EasyRoutes will also attach an order tracking status link to orders that are fulfilled by our app. When you Fulfill the orders in your route a tracking number will be included in the Shipping Confirmation email sent to your customers.
When tracking links are not enabled you can configure which notifications EasyRoutes will automatically send to customers during specific delivery events.
Shipping Method
If you do not use Shopify Local Delivery, then we map to these notifications titled "Shipping" under your Settings -> Notifications in your store's Shopify Admin:
- Out for delivery
- Delivered
Note that Out for Delivery and Delivered notifications must be checked and enabled in order for EasyRoutes to send a notification.
If the order was placed with a "standard" shipping method (e.g. a custom shipping method), then we will use the Shipping notifications (i.e,. same ones that a third-party shipper like Fedex / UPS would integrate with to trigger notifications). This also means that "attempted delivery" will only send an email if the order was Local Delivery. There is no Missed Delivery notification template for Shipping.
Local Delivery
If you use Shopify Local Delivery, then we map to these notifications titled "Local Delivery" under your Settings -> Notifications in your store's Shopify Admin:
- Out for delivery
- Delivered
- Missed delivery
Note that Out for Delivery, Missed Delivered and Delivered notifications must be checked and enabled in order for EasyRoutes to send a notification.
For example, if your store is configured with Shopify Local Delivery. And an order was placed with Local Delivery as the shipping method (i.e,. store has it configured), then we will use the Local Delivery notifications.
Clicking this button will update your order status and trigger the Out for Delivery notification email to all the customers in that route and take you to our mobile-friendly driver view. If you do not not want to send this notification, uncheck the "Sent to the customer automatically after orders with tracking information are out for delivery" and "Sent to the customer when their local order is out for delivery" in your Shopify Notifications settings as per above. Similarly, you can customize this for your Delivered and Missed Delivery notifications
Out for Delivery
When you or your driver views a delivery route, they will see a "Start Delivery Route" button at the top-right of their screen. You can skip "Start Delivery Route" by clicking on the "Driver View" button instead and trigger notifications above (e.g. Mark as Delivered) per stop only as you need instead if you want to keep your orders unfulfilled before or during the delivery of your route.
You can also uncheck this under Settings -> Notifications if you do not want your drivers to 'start a route', and you are looking for them to mark each stop as needed:
The Out for Delivery notification can also be sent individually for each order by marking that order as "Out for delivery".
Delivered
When the "Mark as Delivered" button is pressed, your order status will be updated and a "Delivered" email is automatically sent to that customer. 
Attempted Delivery
Missed Delivery notifications are only available for Local Delivery orders. A Missed Delivery email notification is sent when the order has been marked as "Attempted Delivery". 
Viewing what notifications have been triggered
To review what notifications have been triggered for a particular order, review your order's timeline. For more on how to use your Timeline for an order, review this Shopify Help article.
Text / SMS Notifications
For SMS notifications, here's the article in the Shopify Help Centre on the topic. Note: The Out for Delivery and Delivered notifications through Shopify on SMS are only available to orders that are shipping using Shopify's Local Delivery method.
If they originally entered a phone number with their order, then it's already on an SMS notification. If they originally chose email, then your customers can opt in to order tracking with SMS on their order status page, and that's when the SMS notifications are sent:
