Every gift Seed places is a real Shopify order, not a spreadsheet row or a third-party system your team has to check separately. This page explains exactly how it gets there.
What happens on submit
When a creator taps Confirm & Submit, Seed:
- Creates a Shopify draft order with the creator's chosen product/variant line items, each carrying a 100% discount ("Influencer Gift"), the creator's typed shipping address, and a $0.00 shipping line (titled "Free Shipping" by default. A campaign can rename or reprice this line).
- Immediately completes that draft order, which converts it into a normal Shopify order and drops it straight into your fulfillment queue, exactly like any order a customer pays for.
The order carries the tag seed-gift plus a tag for the campaign it came from, so you can filter or search for gifted orders in Shopify at any time.
Why $0 and not a coupon code
An earlier approach some tools use is a 100%-off discount code the creator types at a normal checkout. That code can leak. Screenshotted, shared, or found by anyone browsing your store, and then used by people who were never gifted anything. Seed skips checkout entirely: the discount is applied directly on each line item of a specific draft order tied to that one creator's submission, so there's no reusable code to leak in the first place.
A handful of shops need a non-zero declared value
A small number of stores (mostly ones invoicing in a currency where Shopify won't complete a literal $0.00 order) are set up with a tiny minimum charge (a cent or two) on the product line instead of shipping, so the order still declares a real value. This is a beta setting enabled per store; it doesn't apply unless your store has specifically needed it.
If it fails partway through
If the draft order is created but the completion step fails (a rare Shopify-side hiccup), the order is saved without a linked Shopify order and shows up for your review in the app's pending queue rather than silently disappearing, see order didn't appear in Shopify.