Run the back office
Every order, from charge to doorstep.
A full order lifecycle with fulfillment, tracking, and customer emails built in.
Orders in Shepherd carry the complete story: a nine-state lifecycle, the immutable checkout snapshot, payment records, tax and shipping detail, tracking numbers, and the emails your customers expect, with ShipStation export for high-volume fulfillment.
9
Order states, from pending to refunded
Auto
Fulfillment for digital & license items
1 click
Tracking and cancellation emails

A lifecycle that matches reality.
Orders aren't just 'paid' or 'not paid'. Shepherd tracks draft, pending, completed, expired, unresolved, resolved, cancelled, pending refund, and refunded, driven automatically by payment webhooks and polling, so the dashboard always reflects the truth.
- Nine-state lifecycle synced from your payment provider
- Pending orders auto-expire when payment windows lapse
- Dispute-friendly states for unresolved and resolved payments
- Refund states tracked end to end
Fulfillment that starts itself.
The moment payment completes, Shepherd decrements inventory, dispatches digital and license fulfillment handlers, updates customer lifetime metrics, and sends confirmation emails. No one has to push a button.
- Automatic inventory decrement per SKU on completion
- Digital download and license-key delivery fire automatically
- Customer order count, total spent, and AOV update in real time
- Templated customer confirmation and merchant notification emails
Ship at any volume.
Add tracking entries with carrier and service per shipment, send tracking emails with one click, and plug into ShipStation for batch label workflows. Export paid orders to ShipStation and tracking numbers flow back automatically via webhook.
- Multiple tracking entries per order (carrier, service, number)
- One-click tracking and cancellation emails
- ShipStation order export feed built in
- Tracking webhook updates orders when labels are created
Answers for every 'where's my order?'
Each order stores the contact info, billing and shipping addresses, tax rate snapshot, shipping detail, raw payment response, and the immutable cart-at-charge-time record. Support has everything in one screen; customers see their history in their account.
- Complete order record: addresses, contact, tax, shipping, payment
- Immutable checkout snapshot for disputes and audits
- Customer-facing order history API for your storefront
- Human-readable invoice IDs on every order
Everything included.
Order dashboard
Sales, AOV, completed/pending/refunded counts, and conversion, with period-over-period deltas.
Manual capture
Authorize at checkout, capture from the order when you're ready to ship.
Cancellations
Cancel from admin with an optional templated email to the customer.
Abandoned carts
See open carts and conversion rate straight from the dashboard.
Customer metrics
Lifetime value rollups update automatically as orders complete.
Tax & shipping snapshots
The exact rates charged are stored on the order forever.
ShipStation loop
Export orders out; tracking numbers come back via webhook.
Order history API
Authenticated customers fetch their orders and submit product reviews.
Status polling
Crypto and async payments confirm automatically in the background.
Easy for your whole team.
For ops teams
Batch fulfillment, zero re-keying
Orders flow to ShipStation, labels get made, tracking flows back, customers get emailed. The loop closes itself.
For store managers
The dashboard tells the story
Sales, refunds, conversion, and abandonment, with comparisons to the previous period, without exporting a single CSV.
For support
One screen per question
The full order record, including what the cart looked like at charge time, lives on one admin page.
How it compares.
Order management is table stakes everywhere. The difference is what you pay for the automation around it.
| Capability | Shepherd.Commerce | Shopify | BigCommerce | WooCommerce |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automated digital/license fulfillment | Built in | Apps required | Basic digital built in | Paid extensions |
| Fulfillment partner integration | ShipStation loop included | Built in + apps | Apps | Free/paid plugins |
| Customer lifetime metrics | Built in | Built-in reports (higher tiers for depth) | Built-in analytics | Extensions |
| Order data access | Direct DB + REST API, no limits | API with rate limits | API with limits | Direct DB + REST |
Competitor details compiled from public sources for general comparison; verify current terms with each provider. Third-party names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Works with the tools you already use.
ShipStation
Batch fulfillment & tracking sync
Stripe
Payment status webhooks
Shepherd.Commerce is not affiliated with the providers above. We integrate with their services using your own accounts and credentials.
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Automated fulfillment, tracking emails, and a dashboard that answers before anyone asks.