Requires 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.
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
typeis 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
typeis MONTHDAY, then the value must be between 1-31.If
typeis YEARDAY, then the value must benull.The day of the anchor.
If
typeis 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
typeisn't WEEKDAY, then the value must be between 1-31.The month of the anchor. If type is different than YEARDAY, then the value must be
nullor between 1-12.Represents the anchor type, it can be one one of WEEKDAY, MONTHDAY, YEARDAY.