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title: "Draft Orders"
metaTitle: "Creating Draft Orders Manually in Vendure"
metaDescription: "Create orders on behalf of customers directly in the Vendure Admin UI for phone orders, in-person sales, quotes, or testing promotions with coupon codes."
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Draft Orders are used when an Administrator would like to manually create an order via the Admin UI. For example, this can be useful when:

* A customer phones up to place an order
* A customer wants to place an order in person
* You want to create an order on behalf of a customer, e.g. for a quote.
* When testing Promotions

To create a Draft Order, click the **"Create draft order"** button from the Order List view.

From there you can:

* Add ProductVariants to the Order using the search input marked "Add item to order"
* Optionally activate coupon codes to trigger Promotions
* Set the customer, shipping and billing addresses
* Select the shipping method

Once ready, click the **"Complete draft"** button to convert this Order from a Draft into a regular Order. At this stage the order can be paid for, and you can manually record the payment details.

:::note
Note: Draft Orders do not appear in a Customer's order history in the storefront (Shop API) while still
in the "Draft" state.
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