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Après la livraison, tu le leur confirmes.

Après la livraison, tu le leur confirmes.
After the delivery, you confirm it to them.
From Lesson 153:Double object pronouns with 3rd person (le lui, la leur)·French

Questions & Answers about Après la livraison, tu le leur confirmes.

Why is the order le leur confirmes instead of leur le confirmes?
When a sentence has two third-person pronouns (like le, la, or les alongside lui or leur), the direct object (here, le) always comes before the indirect object (leur). This is a special rule just for third-person pronouns.
What exactly does le represent in this sentence?
The pronoun le is the direct object meaning 'it.' Because it is masculine, it replaces a specific masculine noun that would have been mentioned earlier in the conversation, such as le paiement (the payment) or le rendez-vous (the appointment). If the thing being confirmed was feminine, it would be la leur confirmes.
Since leur means 'to them', why isn't there an à before it?
The indirect object pronoun leur already has the meaning of 'to' built into it. The verb structure is confirmer quelque chose à quelqu'un (to confirm something to someone). When you replace the people with a pronoun, leur takes the place of both the preposition à and the people.
Should leur have an 's' at the end since it refers to multiple people?
No, not when it is used as an object pronoun like it is here. The pronoun leur means 'to them' and never changes its spelling. You might be remembering the possessive adjective leur or leurs (meaning 'their'), which does take an 's' when it is followed by a plural noun.

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