SellingPlanAnchor

object

Requires read_products access scope.

Specifies the date when delivery or fulfillment is completed by a merchant for a given time cycle. You can also define a cutoff for which customers are eligible to enter this cycle and the desired behavior for customers who start their subscription inside the cutoff period.

Some example scenarios where anchors can be useful to implement advanced delivery behavior:

A merchant starts fulfillment on a specific date every month.
A merchant wants to bill the 1st of every quarter.
A customer expects their delivery every Tuesday.

For more details, see About Selling Plans.

Anchor to FieldsFields

Anchor to cutoffDaycutoffDay • Int: The cutoff day for the anchor. Specifies a buffer period before the anchor date for orders to be included in a delivery or fulfillment cycle.

If type is WEEKDAY, then the value must be between 1-7. Shopify interprets the days of the week according to ISO 8601, where 1 is Monday.

If type is MONTHDAY, then the value must be between 1-31.

If type is YEARDAY, then the value must be null.
Anchor to dayday • Int!non-null: The day of the anchor.

If type is WEEKDAY, then the value must be between 1-7. Shopify interprets the days of the week according to ISO 8601, where 1 is Monday.

If type isn't WEEKDAY, then the value must be between 1-31.
Anchor to monthmonth • Int: The month of the anchor. If type is different than YEARDAY, then the value must be null or between 1-12.
Anchor to typetype • SellingPlanAnchorType!non-null: Represents the anchor type, it can be one one of WEEKDAY, MONTHDAY, YEARDAY.

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