Latest archived orders

How to use the Metrics API to get the most recently archived orders

The problem

You want to get the latest 100 orders that have been recently archived, over a selected date and time range, chronologically ordered by date of archival.

The solution

Query

You need to perform a search query setting the required query keys as follows and adding the optional ones based on your needs:

Key	Value
limit	100
sort_by	order.archived_at

If you want to focus on some specific information about the carts you're searching for, just fill in the fields array with the list of attributes you want to get in the response.

Filter

Set the desired date and time range using the date_from and date_to keys and add an additional filter on the line items field to restrict the related search on carts that contain the desired SKU only:

Attribute	Operator
archived	true

As shown in the example below, use archived_at as the date_field in the date filter if you want the results to count all the orders that were archived in the selected date and time range (read more about this).

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Example

Request

The following request uses the Metrics API to get the latest archived orders:

curl -g -X POST \
  'https://{{your_domain}}.commercelayer.io/metrics/orders/search' \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.api.v1+json' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{your_access_token}}' \
  -d '{
    "search": {
      "limit": 100,
      "sort": "desc",
      "sort_by": "order.archived_at",
      "fields": [ "order.id", "order.number", "order.archived_at" ]
    },
    "filter": {
      "order": {
        "date_from": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
        "date_to": "2021-12-31T23:59:00Z",
        "date_field": "archived_at",
        "archived": true
      }
    }
  }'

Response

On success, the API responds with a 200 OK status code, returning the requested fields in the data object and additional information alongside pagination in the meta object:

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "NrnYhAdVXO",
      "number": "2434779",
      "archived_at": "2021-07-15T15:00:49.154Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "NEBrhvrjRO",
      "number": "2431839",
      "archived_at": "2021-04-16T14:29:29.350Z"
    },
    { ... }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "pagination": {
      "record_count": 123,
      "cursor": "LS0tCi0gJzIwMjEtMTItMzFUMjM6NDE6M=="
    },
    "type": "search",
    "trace_id": "fe571ea2-8a4f-4a5e-bd26-ac54651bb2e4",
    "mode": "test",
    "organization_id": "xYZkjABcde",
    "market_ids": [ "yzXKjYzaCx", "..." ]
  }
}

Similar cases

Just changing a couple of query keys and/or filter parameters you can address lots of very similar use cases, such as:

• Latest approved returns over a specific period of time
• Latest returns shipped from a specific country
• Latest placed orders from customer with specific email domains
• Latest created carts containing a specific SKU and associated with a specific market