Ability to Cancel Back orders through the API

[SBarnes]

Can SalesOrderPATCHRequest be used to cancel back orders?

And what happens on an update if there is no open snapshot?

[Mike.Sheen]

Can SalesOrderPATCHRequest be used to cancel back orders?

Sure - as long as you provide the appropriate field values, the backorder amount can be moved to the demand amount, indicating a cancellation.

And what happens on an update if there is no open snapshot?

You'll get an exception - at which point you could catch that and create a new snapshot - but we don't have a route out of the box for that, so you'd need to create one.

[SBarnes]

Yeah I was thinking of inventing a route called CreateSnapShot to be called first or create a plugin and attached to the Sales Order deSerialisation start and do the check there

[Mike.Sheen]

Yeah I was thinking of inventing a route called CreateSnapShot to be called first or create a plugin and attached to the Sales Order deSerialisation start and do the check there

That'd be ideal - saves a round trip.