Tacey is a Shopify app that lets you merge two paid orders from the same customer into one shipment, from Tacey's admin inside Shopify, before either order ships. The absorbed order is cancelled with no refund for its items, the surviving order takes no new charge, and both original payments stand.
14-day free trial on every plan.When the same customer checks out twice for the same address, your warehouse has no way to know the two orders are related. It picks, packs and ships both. Order Merge combines them into one order to fulfill before that happens, so it becomes one shipment, one label.
Merging is something you do from Tacey's admin. It is not something your customer does on their order page.The order that survives gets the absorbed order's items added to it, priced at $0.00. The order they came from is cancelled, without a refund for its items, because it was already paid in full.
Both orders keep the transaction they already had. The surviving order's total does not move, because the added line costs nothing. The cancelled order still shows Paid, because the money was never touched, only the order's own status.An edit to a single order can genuinely need a real charge or a real refund, and that always needs a yes first. A merge is different. The merge itself charges nothing and refunds nothing, because neither order's payment is ever touched. The one thing that can be owed is shipping: if your customer paid shipping on both orders, Tacey shows the duplicate shipping charge as owed back, and you decide when to send that refund. On some orders Shopify can also add a duty or tax when two orders become one parcel; Tacey never collects it and shows it before you merge. True on every plan, and there is no setting that changes it.
Merging is a check the app runs on the pair, not just on one order at a time. If either order fails a check, the merge is refused, with the reason shown next to it, before any change is ever made to either order.