Manual order confirmation
When an order is pending (for example, waiting for payment or manual processing), you can confirm it manually from the admin portal. This is useful when you’ve resolved a payment issue outside the normal flow, completed manual processing, or the customer has paid via bank transfer.Where to find it
The Confirm action is available in two places:- Order detail page: Open the order and click Confirm in the actions area
- Subscription page: In the orders table, use the dropdown menu on a pending order and select Confirm

Cancel an order after a failed payment
When an order is still pending because its payment failed, you can cancel it from the admin portal. This is useful when the order should no longer be shipped or retried. You can only cancel an order this way when its payment has failed and the order is still pending. Fulfilled or already cancelled orders cannot be cancelled this way. The Cancel order action is available in two places:- Order detail page: Open the order and click Cancel order in the actions area
- Subscription page: In the orders table, use the dropdown menu on a pending order with a failed payment and select Cancel order
Shopify order cancellations
When an order is cancelled in Shopify, Firmhouse automatically marks the matching order as cancelled too. This keeps the order status aligned between Shopify and Firmhouse, so teams can avoid shipping or following up on orders that were already cancelled in Shopify. Firmhouse only cancels orders that have not already been fulfilled. If the Firmhouse order is fulfilled or already has a fulfillment timestamp, it keeps its fulfilled status.Ship products immediately
From a customer’s subscription page, you can create an order immediately in two ways:- Use Ship now at the top of the Active products section to ship all active products and pull the subscription’s billing cycle forward.
- Open an individual product’s actions menu and select Ship now to create an extra order containing only that product. This does not change the product’s shipment date or the subscription’s next billing date.
Automatic inclusion of one-off add-ons
When orders are created, one-off add-on products are automatically included. These are products that have been added to a subscription with the one-off add-on type.How it works
- One-off add-on products are automatically pulled into regular subscription orders when they’re created
- This happens for both native subscriptions and Shopify contracts
- The products don’t need a shipment date - they’re included whenever the next order is generated
- After the order is created, the one-off add-on is automatically removed from the subscription
Order creation
Orders are created in several ways:- Scheduled orders: When a subscription’s scheduled shipment date arrives, an order is automatically created
- Ship all active products: When you manually pull the subscription’s billing cycle forward
- Shopify billing attempts: When a Shopify subscription contract triggers a billing attempt