diff --git a/UNRELEASED.md b/UNRELEASED.md
index 046ab72a948..8714b094dac 100644
--- a/UNRELEASED.md
+++ b/UNRELEASED.md
@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@ Use [the changelog guidelines](https://git.io/polaris-changelog-guidelines) to f
 
 - Moved icons to a separate npm package ([#686](https://github.com/Shopify/polaris-react/pull/686))
 - Added `oneHalf` and `oneThird` props to `Layout` component ([#724](https://github.com/Shopify/polaris-react/pull/724))
-- Added `helpText` prop to ActionList items ([#777](https://github.com/Shopify/polaris-react/pull/777))
+- Added `helpText` prop to `ActionList` items ([#777](https://github.com/Shopify/polaris-react/pull/777))
 - Updated `Page` header layout so actions take up less room on small screens ([#707](https://github.com/Shopify/polaris-react/pull/707))
+- Added `alternateTool` prop to `ResourceList` component ([#812](https://github.com/Shopify/polaris-react/pull/812))
 
 ### Bug fixes
 
diff --git a/src/components/ResourceList/README.md b/src/components/ResourceList/README.md
index 8fe04b7d7fe..7442a5fdeba 100644
--- a/src/components/ResourceList/README.md
+++ b/src/components/ResourceList/README.md
@@ -351,6 +351,66 @@ class ResourceListExample extends React.Component {
 }
 ```
 
+### Resource list with alternate tool
+
+Allows merchants to add an alternate tool in the current sort option location when sort may not be the most relevant action for the current list.
+
+```jsx
+class ResourceListExample extends React.Component {
+  renderItem = (item) => {
+    const {id, url, name, location} = item;
+    const media = <Avatar customer size="medium" name={name} />;
+
+    return (
+      <ResourceList.Item
+        id={id}
+        url={url}
+        media={media}
+        accessibilityLabel={`View details for ${name}`}
+      >
+        <h3>
+          <TextStyle variation="strong">{name}</TextStyle>
+        </h3>
+        <div>{location}</div>
+      </ResourceList.Item>
+    );
+  };
+
+  render() {
+    const resourceName = {
+      singular: 'Customer',
+      plural: 'Customers',
+    };
+
+    const items = [
+      {
+        id: 341,
+        url: 'customers/341',
+        name: 'Mae Jemison',
+        location: 'Decatur, USA',
+      },
+      {
+        id: 256,
+        url: 'customers/256',
+        name: 'Ellen Ochoa',
+        location: 'Los Angeles, USA',
+      },
+    ];
+
+    return (
+      <Card>
+        <ResourceList
+          items={items}
+          renderItem={this.renderItem}
+          resourceName={resourceName}
+          alternateTool={<Button>Email customers</Button>}
+        />
+      </Card>
+    );
+  }
+}
+```
+
 ### Resource list with filtering
 
 Allows merchants to narrow the resource list to a subset of the original items. See the [filter control subcomponent](#subcomponent-filter-control) and the [filtering section of the case study](#study-filtering) for implementation details.
diff --git a/src/components/ResourceList/ResourceList.scss b/src/components/ResourceList/ResourceList.scss
index 359f746d92f..c42a1c64b9e 100644
--- a/src/components/ResourceList/ResourceList.scss
+++ b/src/components/ResourceList/ResourceList.scss
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ $item-wrapper-loading-height: rem(64px);
   }
 }
 
-.SortWrapper {
+.SortWrapper,
+.AlternateToolWrapper {
   position: relative;
   display: flex;
   flex: 1;
@@ -109,6 +110,7 @@ $item-wrapper-loading-height: rem(64px);
     margin-left: spacing();
 
     // stylelint-disable-next-line selector-max-class
+    .HeaderWrapper-hasAlternateTool.HeaderWrapper-hasSelect &,
     .HeaderWrapper-hasSort.HeaderWrapper-hasSelect & {
       padding-right: 0;
     }
@@ -131,6 +133,7 @@ $item-wrapper-loading-height: rem(64px);
   padding-left: spacing(extra-tight);
   align-self: center;
 
+  .HeaderWrapper-hasAlternateTool &,
   .HeaderWrapper-hasSort & {
     display: none;
   }
@@ -138,10 +141,11 @@ $item-wrapper-loading-height: rem(64px);
   @include breakpoint-after(resource-list(breakpoint-small)) {
     // stylelint-disable-next-line selector-max-class
     .HeaderWrapper-hasSelect &,
+    .HeaderWrapper-hasAlternateTool.HeaderWrapper-hasSelect &,
     .HeaderWrapper-hasSort.HeaderWrapper-hasSelect & {
       display: none;
     }
-
+    .HeaderWrapper-hasAlternateTool &,
     .HeaderWrapper-hasSort & {
       display: block;
     }
diff --git a/src/components/ResourceList/ResourceList.tsx b/src/components/ResourceList/ResourceList.tsx
index 800cde3028b..48e9743523f 100644
--- a/src/components/ResourceList/ResourceList.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ResourceList/ResourceList.tsx
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ export interface Props {
   sortValue?: string;
   /** Collection of sort options to choose from */
   sortOptions?: Option[];
+  /** ReactNode to display instead of the sort control */
+  alternateTool?: React.ReactNode;
   /** Callback when sort option is changed */
   onSortChange?(selected: string, id: string): void;
   /** Callback when selection is changed */
@@ -342,6 +344,7 @@ export class ResourceList extends React.Component<CombinedProps, State> {
       showHeader = false,
       sortOptions,
       sortValue,
+      alternateTool,
       onSortChange,
       polaris: {intl},
     } = this.props;
@@ -379,7 +382,7 @@ export class ResourceList extends React.Component<CombinedProps, State> {
     );
 
     const sortingSelectMarkup =
-      sortOptions && sortOptions.length > 0 ? (
+      sortOptions && sortOptions.length > 0 && !alternateTool ? (
         <div className={styles.SortWrapper}>
           {sortingLabelMarkup}
           <Select
@@ -393,6 +396,11 @@ export class ResourceList extends React.Component<CombinedProps, State> {
         </div>
       ) : null;
 
+    const alternateToolMarkup =
+      alternateTool && !sortingSelectMarkup ? (
+        <div className={styles.AlternateToolWrapper}>{alternateTool}</div>
+      ) : null;
+
     const headerTitleMarkup = (
       <div className={styles.HeaderTitleWrapper} testID="headerTitleWrapper">
         {this.headerTitle}
@@ -425,7 +433,9 @@ export class ResourceList extends React.Component<CombinedProps, State> {
     ) : null;
 
     const needsHeader =
-      this.selectable || (sortOptions && sortOptions.length > 0);
+      this.selectable ||
+      (sortOptions && sortOptions.length > 0) ||
+      alternateTool;
 
     const headerWrapperOverlay = loading ? (
       <div className={styles['HeaderWrapper-overlay']} />
@@ -440,7 +450,9 @@ export class ResourceList extends React.Component<CombinedProps, State> {
                 styles.HeaderWrapper,
                 sortOptions &&
                   sortOptions.length > 0 &&
+                  !alternateTool &&
                   styles['HeaderWrapper-hasSort'],
+                alternateTool && styles['HeaderWrapper-hasAlternateTool'],
                 this.selectable && styles['HeaderWrapper-hasSelect'],
                 loading && styles['HeaderWrapper-disabled'],
                 this.selectable &&
@@ -454,6 +466,7 @@ export class ResourceList extends React.Component<CombinedProps, State> {
                   <div className={styles.HeaderContentWrapper}>
                     {headerTitleMarkup}
                     {checkableButtonMarkup}
+                    {alternateToolMarkup}
                     {sortingSelectMarkup}
                     {selectButtonMarkup}
                   </div>
diff --git a/src/components/ResourceList/tests/ResourceList.test.tsx b/src/components/ResourceList/tests/ResourceList.test.tsx
index 5eb7903f004..0b8d800b502 100644
--- a/src/components/ResourceList/tests/ResourceList.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/ResourceList/tests/ResourceList.test.tsx
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ const sortOptions = [
   },
 ];
 
+const alternateTool = <div id="AlternateTool">Alternate Tool</div>;
+
 describe('<ResourceList />', () => {
   describe('renderItem', () => {
     it('renders list items', () => {
@@ -335,6 +337,19 @@ describe('<ResourceList />', () => {
       );
     });
 
+    it('renders when an alternateTool is provided', () => {
+      const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
+        <ResourceList
+          alternateTool={alternateTool}
+          items={itemsWithID}
+          renderItem={renderItem}
+        />,
+      );
+      expect(findByTestID(resourceList, 'ResourceList-Header').exists()).toBe(
+        true,
+      );
+    });
+
     it('renders when bulkActions are given', () => {
       const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
         <ResourceList
@@ -461,6 +476,101 @@ describe('<ResourceList />', () => {
       expect(resourceList.find(Select).exists()).toBe(true);
     });
 
+    it('does not render a sort select if an alternateTool is provided', () => {
+      const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
+        <ResourceList
+          items={itemsWithID}
+          renderItem={renderItem}
+          sortOptions={sortOptions}
+          alternateTool={alternateTool}
+        />,
+      );
+      expect(resourceList.find(Select).exists()).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    describe('sortOptions', () => {
+      it('passes a sortOptions to the Select options', () => {
+        const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
+          <ResourceList
+            items={itemsWithID}
+            sortOptions={sortOptions}
+            renderItem={renderItem}
+          />,
+        );
+        expect(resourceList.find(Select).props()).toHaveProperty(
+          'options',
+          sortOptions,
+        );
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('sortValue', () => {
+      it('passes a sortValue to the Select value', () => {
+        const onSortChange = jest.fn();
+        const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
+          <ResourceList
+            items={itemsWithID}
+            sortOptions={sortOptions}
+            sortValue="sortValue"
+            onSortChange={onSortChange}
+            renderItem={renderItem}
+          />,
+        );
+        expect(resourceList.find(Select).props()).toHaveProperty(
+          'value',
+          'sortValue',
+        );
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('onSortChange', () => {
+      it('calls onSortChange when the Sort Select changes', () => {
+        const onSortChange = jest.fn();
+        const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
+          <ResourceList
+            items={itemsWithID}
+            onSortChange={onSortChange}
+            sortOptions={sortOptions}
+            renderItem={renderItem}
+          />,
+        );
+        trigger(resourceList.find(Select), 'onChange', 'PRODUCT_TITLE_DESC');
+        expect(onSortChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith('PRODUCT_TITLE_DESC');
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('Alternate Tool', () => {
+    it('does not render if an alternateTool is not provided', () => {
+      const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
+        <ResourceList items={itemsWithID} renderItem={renderItem} />,
+      );
+      expect(resourceList.find('#AlternateTool').exists()).toBe(false);
+    });
+
+    it('renders if an alternateTool is provided', () => {
+      const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
+        <ResourceList
+          items={itemsWithID}
+          renderItem={renderItem}
+          alternateTool={alternateTool}
+        />,
+      );
+      expect(resourceList.find('#AlternateTool').exists()).toBe(true);
+    });
+
+    it('renders even if sortOptions are provided', () => {
+      const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(
+        <ResourceList
+          items={itemsWithID}
+          renderItem={renderItem}
+          sortOptions={sortOptions}
+          alternateTool={alternateTool}
+        />,
+      );
+      expect(resourceList.find('#AlternateTool').exists()).toBe(true);
+    });
+
     describe('sortOptions', () => {
       it('passes a sortOptions to the Select options', () => {
         const resourceList = mountWithAppProvider(