Orders not show in teeinblue because of missing customization
Updated Nov 11, 2022: New solution recommended: Add warning about missing customization on Cart page
Updated Apr 8, 2022: Released the feature to recover missing customization on all stores. If a customer added to cart through Teeinblue form, but somehow lost the customization, Teeinblue can now automatically recover this customization.
After the update on Apr 8, 2022, if you see a blank order without any information in Teeinblue (or an order without "customization_id" in Shopify), then this order might be placed not through Teeinblue form and cannot be recovered, unfortunately.
When customers place an order with teeinblue product, the order item will be attached with a customization (the data which customers personalize). So normally, in a valid order, it will have a customization ID under each order item.
If an order item doesn't have this line, it means that the order item has an error and cannot sync to Teeinblue.
This issue happens randomly and unpredictable.
The probability of this problem is about 0 - 1%.
Orders missing customization_id can NOT recover its customization, so you need to contact your customers to ask what they personalize.
Orders missing customization_id are NOT recognized as teeinblue orders, therefore they won't be counted in your teeinblue's free orders or usages.
Customers click on Add-to-cart button before personalization form is loaded:
Shopify always load theme's content before app, therefore there's a little delay for Teeinblue to load the personalization form (normally 0.5 - 1s for first visitors, 0.1 - 0.5s for users in the same location) . Your customers might somehow click on the theme's original Add-to-cart button before the form is loaded, so no customization created.
→ Please contact our support team to help you check your product page. We can help you show a loading icon and hide the theme's content on teeinblue's product page.
Customers add to cart from another app
There can be an Add-to-cart button from a 3rd-party app (eg. sticky add-to-cart bar, quick view, upsell app, frequently bought together,...).
→ Please hide all extra buttons not from teeinblue but can lead to add to cart or checkout on teeinblue's product. You can contact our support team to help you check your store.
Redirect problem from 3rd-party payment to Shopify:
If your store is using a 3rd-party payment, not Shopify Payment, then customers usually are redirected to the payment gateway when checking out. After paying, customers will be redirected back to Shopify and will see the Order confirmation page. Sometimes there might be a problem when redirecting to Shopify that might lose the customization.
→ This cause is unconfirmed, but we see some common payment gateway (3-5%) caused the problem.
Using Cart Permalink Method
More information regarding Cart Permalink can be found here.
Basically, you can create a Cart Permalink with the Variant ID, and the Quantity Number and send it directly to Customers via emails.
Unfortunately, this will re-direct the Customers directly to Cart Page, without the customization process at all. So in this case, no customization data will be recorded.
A typical Cart Permalink will have the following format:
36485954240671 is the Variant ID
1 is the quantity number.
For example, if you follow the following link on our Demo Site:
https://teeinblue.myshopify.com/cart/40564303265844:5
In this case, you will be re-directed to the Checkout Page, with the Variant ID of 40564303265844 and the quantity of 5.
Also, no customization data will be stored at all, as you did not actually been through the customization process.
So if you are using any Email Marketing method, please be careful and do not use this method!
Other reason: investigating
This issue does not have a complete solution yet.
Updated Apr 8 2022: We tested a solution on some stores and saw a significant decrease in the number of orders missing customization. Therefore, we have officially released the feature to recover missing customization on all stores. If a customers added to cart through Teeinblue form, but somehow lost the customization, Teeinblue can now automatically recover this customization.
After the update on Apr 8, 2022, if you see a blank order in Teeinblue (or an order without "customization_id" in Shopify), then this order might be placed not through Teeinblue form and cannot be recovered, unfortunately.
From our end, we investigated and tested all aspects, including:
SDK (storefront) loading → ✔️ working normally.
Add to cart → ✔️ still have customization_id in cart & checkout.
Place order → ✔️ working normally.
Our server performance → ✔️ working normally.
Unfortunately this issue happens randomly and we couldn't reproduce this issue. It seems to depend on other factors outside of our control, hope you understand for us.
We will continue to monitor and try several methods to address and solve it, hope we will find its root cause soon.
If you have any clue about this issue, please reach out to our support team.
Updated Apr 8, 2022: Released the feature to recover missing customization on all stores. If a customer added to cart through Teeinblue form, but somehow lost the customization, Teeinblue can now automatically recover this customization.
After the update on Apr 8, 2022, if you see a blank order without any information in Teeinblue (or an order without "customization_id" in Shopify), then this order might be placed not through Teeinblue form and cannot be recovered, unfortunately.
When customers place an order with teeinblue product, the order item will be attached with a customization (the data which customers personalize). So normally, in a valid order, it will have a customization ID under each order item.
If an order item doesn't have this line, it means that the order item has an error and cannot sync to Teeinblue.
Fact
This issue happens randomly and unpredictable.
The probability of this problem is about 0 - 1%.
Orders missing customization_id can NOT recover its customization, so you need to contact your customers to ask what they personalize.
Orders missing customization_id are NOT recognized as teeinblue orders, therefore they won't be counted in your teeinblue's free orders or usages.
Possible Reasons
Customers click on Add-to-cart button before personalization form is loaded:
Shopify always load theme's content before app, therefore there's a little delay for Teeinblue to load the personalization form (normally 0.5 - 1s for first visitors, 0.1 - 0.5s for users in the same location) . Your customers might somehow click on the theme's original Add-to-cart button before the form is loaded, so no customization created.
→ Please contact our support team to help you check your product page. We can help you show a loading icon and hide the theme's content on teeinblue's product page.
Customers add to cart from another app
There can be an Add-to-cart button from a 3rd-party app (eg. sticky add-to-cart bar, quick view, upsell app, frequently bought together,...).
→ Please hide all extra buttons not from teeinblue but can lead to add to cart or checkout on teeinblue's product. You can contact our support team to help you check your store.
Redirect problem from 3rd-party payment to Shopify:
If your store is using a 3rd-party payment, not Shopify Payment, then customers usually are redirected to the payment gateway when checking out. After paying, customers will be redirected back to Shopify and will see the Order confirmation page. Sometimes there might be a problem when redirecting to Shopify that might lose the customization.
→ This cause is unconfirmed, but we see some common payment gateway (3-5%) caused the problem.
Using Cart Permalink Method
More information regarding Cart Permalink can be found here.
Basically, you can create a Cart Permalink with the Variant ID, and the Quantity Number and send it directly to Customers via emails.
Unfortunately, this will re-direct the Customers directly to Cart Page, without the customization process at all. So in this case, no customization data will be recorded.
A typical Cart Permalink will have the following format:
https://my-shop-name.myshopify.com/cart/36485954240671:136485954240671 is the Variant ID
1 is the quantity number.
For example, if you follow the following link on our Demo Site:
https://teeinblue.myshopify.com/cart/40564303265844:5
In this case, you will be re-directed to the Checkout Page, with the Variant ID of 40564303265844 and the quantity of 5.
Also, no customization data will be stored at all, as you did not actually been through the customization process.
So if you are using any Email Marketing method, please be careful and do not use this method!
Other reason: investigating
Solutions
This issue does not have a complete solution yet.
Updated Apr 8 2022: We tested a solution on some stores and saw a significant decrease in the number of orders missing customization. Therefore, we have officially released the feature to recover missing customization on all stores. If a customers added to cart through Teeinblue form, but somehow lost the customization, Teeinblue can now automatically recover this customization.
After the update on Apr 8, 2022, if you see a blank order in Teeinblue (or an order without "customization_id" in Shopify), then this order might be placed not through Teeinblue form and cannot be recovered, unfortunately.
From our end, we investigated and tested all aspects, including:
SDK (storefront) loading → ✔️ working normally.
Add to cart → ✔️ still have customization_id in cart & checkout.
Place order → ✔️ working normally.
Our server performance → ✔️ working normally.
Unfortunately this issue happens randomly and we couldn't reproduce this issue. It seems to depend on other factors outside of our control, hope you understand for us.
We will continue to monitor and try several methods to address and solve it, hope we will find its root cause soon.
If you have any clue about this issue, please reach out to our support team.
Updated on: 21/02/2024
Thank you!