---
title: "Shopify Draft Order Metafields"
url: "https://michalak.world/posts/shopify-draft-order-metafields/"
description: "Shopify Draft Order Metafields"
summary: "Working with Shopify Draft Order Metafields."
date: 2023-08-03
lastmod: 2026-08-19
tags: ["Shopify","Polaris","Node JS","GraphQL","REST API"]
section: "posts"
author: "Michael Michalak"
site: "https://michalak.world/"
---

# Shopify Draft Order Metafields

Shopify Draft Order Metafields

While trying to track data on draft orders and orders I wanted to use metafields.  This lead me to find out that draft orders cannot have metafields configured. 

These lead me to two options to track data. 
- Note attributes on the order
- A custom mysql database table for my app to track the data.

I've used both depending on the type of data and how store clerks needed to update the data.