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Customer signup email

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Super basic, super useful. :) Get an email alert whenever a customer account is created.

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes to, subject, and body.

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Auto-tag new customers

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task tags every new customer, and it's easy to update it to be more specific about who gets tagged – use that chat button in the corner, and we’ll help!

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes tag.

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Hide out-of-stock products

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Whenever inventory for a product is updated, this task scans all variants and all fulfillment locations, adds up all inventory related to that product, and makes sure the product is hidden if the total inventory meets your "out of stock" threshold. Optionally, it'll send you an email when it does so.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when an inventory level is updated. Configuration includes email notification recipient, only monitor products with these tags, and out of stock inventory quantity.

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Email customers when tagged

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Automatically send out an email to your customers when a tag is added to their account. Useful for sending approval emails, welcome emails if the customer was created with a certain tag, or any other emails related to an update to the customer's status. The most common use of this task is to send out emails to customers when their accounts are approved, but you can use this task to email customers any kind of alert you like, triggered by a simple tag. For example, some themes include an email subscription form that creates a customer record, pre-tagged with "email subscribe", or something to that effect.

Runs when a customer is created and when a customer is updated. Configuration includes tag to watch for, email subject, email body, and email template html.

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Auto-tag customers when they purchase a matching product

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Configure this task with a product title and/or some tags to watch for, and this task will apply the tag(s) of your choice to every customer who makes a matching purchase.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes required product title, required product tags, and customer tags to apply.

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Publish back-in-stock products

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Whenever inventory for a product is updated, this task scans all variants and all fulfillment locations, adds up all inventory related to that product, and makes sure the product is published if the total inventory meets your "back in stock" threshold. Optionally, it'll send you an email when it does so.

Runs when an inventory level is updated. Configuration includes email notification recipient and back in stock inventory quantity.

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Cancel and close unpaid orders after two days

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Clear the clutter in your orders list, automatically! This task checks the order two days after it's created, and cancels and closes the order if its financial status is still marked "pending".

Runs 2 days after an order is created. Configuration includes restock inventory, send cancellation email to customer, and tag to add to the order.

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Email customers after purchasing a certain product

Jed Storie (jed@fortco.tech)

Send an email to the customer with specific information regarding a product they just purchased. Useful for digital products, or anytime you'd like to communicate something extra about a product you offer. (Note: this does not replace the Shopify order confirmation email!)

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes email subject, email body, and product sku.

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Auto-tag new orders based on payment method

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task checks the payment method for new orders immediately upon order creation, and tags the order accordingly. (If you need to tag the order later on, based on updates or when the order is paid, get in touch!)

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes payment gateway name and comma separated tags to add.

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Remind customers daily about unpaid orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task emails customers right away about unpaid orders, and then continues to email them every (x) days until the order is paid. This task shows off Mechanic's ability to perform repeated delayed actions.

Runs when an order is created and 1 days after user/orders/unpaid_reminder is triggered. Configuration includes subject, body, and number of days to wait between reminders.

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Email customer when their order is paid

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Quickly send a thank-you email (or any other sort of follow-up email) to your customers, as soon as their order is paid. And it's super easy to add a delay - set the task to subscribe "shopify/orders/paid+2.days" or "shopify/orders/paid+1.week" instead to create a thoughtful just-checking-back-in-with-you message. :)

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes subject and body.

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Auto-invite customers after an order

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Automatically prompt customers to activate their customer accounts, after placing an order in your store – useful if your online store unlocks special offers, functionality, or content after making a purchase. Optionally, only send invitations if the customer has ordered a product with a specific tag.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes only invite if the order contains a product with this tag, invitation email subject, and invitation email body.

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Ask for reviews a week after order fulfillment

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Follow up with your customers automatically, and establish the purchase -> earn-reviews -> attract-customers cycle. This task comes prefilled with a friendly email that gives the customer direct links to their purchases on your website – customize this email to taste.

Runs 7 days after an order is fulfilled. Configuration includes email subject, email body, and days to wait before emailing.

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Auto-tag orders by product collections

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to automatically tag orders based on what collection(s) the customer has ordered from. Useful for broadly classifying orders according to their contents.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes collections and tags.

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Remind customers after 7 days about unpaid orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task wait for 7 days after an order placed, and – if the order is still unpaid – emails the customer, and optionally adds a tag to the order.

Runs 7 days after an order is created. Configuration includes email subject, email body, and tag to add to the order.

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Email customers when their order is tagged

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Improve your customer relationships without complicated your workflow - use this task to send automatic emails whenever your staff adds a certain tag to an order. (Mechanic will add another tag to your order when the email is sent, for visibility.)

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes tag to watch for, email subject, email body, and email template html.

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Auto-fulfill items that don't require shipping

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Useful for digital products, memberships, or anything else that needs to be fulfilled instantly. This task watches for paid orders, and auto-fulfills all line items that don't require shipping.

Runs when an order is paid.

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Send new customer signups to IFTTT

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Send yourself a text message, or blink your lights, or do whatever you like! This task is an example, more than anything, of what you can do by connecting Mechanic and IFTTT. Follow our guide (in the task documentation) to learn how to set up text message alerts for customer signups, and then customize any and every part of this task to your liking.

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes ifttt event, ifttt key, value1, value2, and value3.

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Flag orders that aren't fulfilled after several days

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

It's critical to stay on top of any orders that aren't properly fulfilled – and your customers care, too! Use this task to auto-tag orders, to email yourself a reminder, and optionally to send customers a little reassurance message, if an order hasn't been fulfilled a configurable number of days after payment.

Runs 2 days after an order is paid. Configuration includes tag to add, staff notification recipient, send the customer an email, customer email subject, customer email body, and days to wait before followup.

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Auto-tag new orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Immediately upon order creation, add one or more tags to the order. Simple as that. :)

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes comma separated tags to add.

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Email your customers after a quiet period of no orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Follow up with your customers – keep those relationships alive, and improve your returning customer rate, by emailing your customers after a few months of no order activity. By default, this task sends an email after 6 months of no order activity, and another 6 months after that.

Runs 6 months after an order is created and 12 months after an order is created. Configuration includes subject and body.

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Remind customers that their order is on the way

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Do you ship custom items, or do you have a lengthy turnaround time on your orders? Use this task to automatically re-assure customers that their order is in the queue, to be shipped as soon as possible. By default, this task sends an email 10 days (or a number you configure) after the order is paid, as long as the order remains fully paid, unfulfilled, and un-cancelled.

Runs 10 days after an order is paid. Configuration includes email subject, email body, and number of days to wait.

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Send email when an order is tagged

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to monitor order tags, and notify staff, vendors, or any other interested parties when an order receives a certain tag. Useful for keeping teams across your business up to date as an order progresses.

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes tag to watch for, email recipients, email subject, and email body.

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Bulk capture orders by order number

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

The merchant who created this task uses another app for validating orders in bulk, resulting in a list of order numbers that should be captured. This task prompts the merchant for a list of order numbers, which Mechanic then captures one by one.

Runs when some text is submitted.

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Auto-tag products when a "compare at" price is added or removed

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task will keep your sale tags in sync, without any manual work. Configure the task with a tag to apply, and Mechanic will take care of tagging products when you give them a "compare at" price, and untagging those products when the "compare at" price is removed.

Runs when a product is created and when a product is updated. Configuration includes product tag.

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Email someone when a certain product is purchased.

Ken Parelius (team@usemechanic.com)

The task allows you to send an email to an address (or addresses) of your choice when a certain product is purchased.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes email address, email subject, email body, reply to email address, and product title.

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Auto-fulfill orders when tagged

Isaac Bowen (isaac@lightward.com)

This task monitors order tags, and when a certain tag is added to an order, it auto-fulfills all unfulfilled items in the order. Optionally, you can choose to notify customers when their order is fulfilled by this task.

Runs when an order is updated. Configuration includes order tag and notify customer on fulfillment.

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Archive orders on delivery

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Don't keep your customers waiting! Stay on top of orders that have yet to be delivered, by auto-archiving every order once every item has reached the customer.

Runs when a fulfillment event is created.

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Fulfillment failure email

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Get an alert email sent to you when your tracking service reports a fulfillment failure. This email contains a link to the order details, so you can jump in and resolve the issue for the customer without losing any time.

Runs when a fulfillment event is created. Configuration includes email recipient.

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Auto-copy notes from customers to their orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Save time jumping between screens, by making sure that the order record has everything you need. Useful for shops that keep important fulfillment information in the customer notes. This task can be run manually to back-fill notes for open orders.

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task.

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Tag customers with product tags from their order

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

When orders come in, use this task to copy product tags from the order to the customer on file. Useful for automatically segmenting your customers based on attributes of their purchases. To keep things tidy, optionally configure this task to only look for a certain set of tags.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes only copy these tags.

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Abandoned cart emails

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Roll your own abandoned cart emails with this task – or, modify it to perform any other actions that your business needs when a cart is let go. :) Out of the box, this task sends customers a recovery link, with an emails subject and message that you can easily customize.

Runs 1 day after user/checkouts/abandoned is triggered, when a checkout is created, when a checkout is updated, and when an order is created. Configuration includes email subject and email body.

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Reset inventory levels daily

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to bring all of your inventory levels to the same place, every night.

Runs every day at midnight. Configuration includes inventory level to apply and collection.

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Keep inventory levels in sync within products

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Useful for selling, say, a limited print with different framing options, this task makes sure that a product's inventory levels, for each variant and location, are all kept in sync.

Runs when an inventory level is updated. Configuration includes filter by these location names and filter by these product types.

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Auto-tag products that are missing costs

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to help you close in on the last few products that are missing cost values. Trigger this task manually to process your entire catalog, or let this task update tags as needed for products you create or update.

Runs when a user triggers the task, when a product is created, and when a product is updated. Configuration includes tag for cost missing.

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Tag orders in bulk by order number

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to rapidly update your order list, by entering a set of order numbers and the tags to apply to those orders.

Runs when some text is submitted.

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Auto-tag orders using the customer's tags

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to apply the same categorizations you use for your customers. Useful for pre-approving customers, and then quickly sorting your orders based on that pre-approval. Optionally, configure this task to only copy certain tags from customers to their orders.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes only copy these tags.

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Automatically send account invite to new customers

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task keeps an eye on customers as you create or import them in Shopify, and automatically sends account invitations to any customers that have an email address.

Runs 1 minute after a customer is created. Configuration includes invitation email subject and invitation email body.

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Maintain a collection of new products

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to maintain a "New Products" collection, specifying either a number of products to include or the number of days to keep each product around. Easy! :)

Runs when a user triggers the task and every day at midnight. Configuration includes number of days to keep a product in this collection, number of products to keep in this collection, and collection.

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Auto-tag orders using product tags

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to tag incoming orders with all the product tags in the order. Optionally, specify a specific list of tags to be copied, and/or a certain tag prefix to watch for.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes copy these tags and copy tags having this prefix.

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Archive free orders on fulfillment

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Does what it says on the tin. :) Any order with a total price of 0.00 will be archived/closed, immediately upon order fulfillment.

Runs when an order is fulfilled.

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Tag online orders by their ?ref= referral codes

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Have your referral partners send customers using ?ref=referral-code-here URLs, then use this task to automatically tag each customer's order according to the ref code they arrived with. (The referral code will be saved in a browser cookie for one year.)

Runs when an order is created.

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Auto-tag customers with the location of their purchase

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

When an order is created, this task adds the location of the purchase to the customer's tags. Useful for stores with multiple Shopify-powered locations.

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes tag for online orders.

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Auto-tag customers based on email domain

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Useful in a million scenarios. The merchant who requested this task has discounts set up based on customer tag, and they're using this task to guarantee that qualifying customers see their discount immediately – even if they just signed up!

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes customer email domains and customer tag to apply.

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Add new customers to GetResponse

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Does what it says on the tin. :) Provide your GetResponse API key (found under the account menu, under "Integrations & API" and "API") and a list token (found in the settings for your list – look for 5-6 letters and numbers), and Mechanic will automatically send each new customer account (full name and email address) over to GetResponse.

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes getresponse api key and getresponse list token.

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Auto-generate SKUs

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Save time by letting this task keep your variant SKUs up to date, generating them based on your product handle, and the initials of each variant option. Useful for large catalogs, or for anyone who has a consistent SKU format. Like all tasks, this one is easy to update for your business's needs - get in touch if you need a hand.

Runs when a product is created and when a product is updated.

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Email a CSV export of products

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task demonstrates Mechanic's ability to compile a CSV export, and send it as an email attachment. In this example, we bundle up a simple export of product titles and IDs, and email it as a CSV attachment.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes email recipient.

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Tag products by their price ranges

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Some themes (like Mogo!) support browsing products by price range. Under the hood, this functionality is powered by tags that look like "rprice-1-100". This Mechanic task watches for new and updated products, making sure that the product range tags stay in sync with prices available for each product. And, if you run the task manually, it'll update the tags for all products in your shop.

Runs when a user triggers the task, when a product is created, and when a product is updated. Configuration includes range maximum, range minimum, and range increment.

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Auto-tag customers with vendors after ordering

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task tags customers with the name of each vendor in their order, as soon as the order is created. Useful for keeping track of which vendors a customer is interested in. :)

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task.

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Delete cancelled orders after 48 hours

Isaac Bowen (isaac@lightward.com)

When an order is cancelled, this task waits 48 hours, and then permanently deletes the order. Simple as that! (Please note: if you only want to archive the cancelled order, not delete it, try a different task!)

Runs when an order is updated and 48 hours after user/orders/delete_cancelled is triggered.

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Email all customers who recently purchased a certain product

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Need to reach customers who purchased something specific? This task scans your order history over the last 60 days, looking for paid orders for the product you specify, and sends each one an email that you can customize.

Runs when some text is submitted. Configuration includes email subject and email body.

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Reset inventory levels when they get too low

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to automatically maintain a minimum inventory level.

Runs when an inventory level is updated. Configuration includes minimum inventory level, location, variant ids to ignore, variant options to ignore, and product types to ignore.

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Email customers when created

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to send a quick welcome email to customers, when they sign up or are otherwise created in your shop. Optionally, filter by customer tag to only send welcome emails to certain customers.

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes required customer tag, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-tag orders that contain bundles

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to automatically detect and tag orders that contain a complete bundle of products. Configure this task with as many bundles as you like, specifying a tag to add and a list of required SKUs.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes tags and required skus.

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Notify a team when a tagged product is ordered

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Quickly route order notifications to whichever teams need be alerted for a given order. Use product tags to mark products according to which team needs the alert, and add multiple copies of this task to alert different teams for different tags.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes required product tag, team email, email subject, and email body.

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Tag orders that have more than x of a certain product

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to monitor for orders that meet a certain quantity threshold of a certain product, configured by SKU. Optionally, send yourself an email notification when such an order comes in.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes skus to monitor, evaluate threshold per line item, quantity threshold for tagging, tag to apply, and staff notification email.

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Archive orders when fulfilled

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Super simple: this task monitors for order fulfillments, and automatically archives orders when they're fulfilled.

Runs when an order is fulfilled and when a user triggers the task.

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Cancel fulfillments when an order is fully refunded

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task monitors for new refunds. When a new refund changes an order's status to fully refunded, this task will cancel all fulfillments for that order. This task supports running manually, to cancel all fulfillments for refunded orders, across your store's order history.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a refund is created. Configuration includes cancel pending fulfillments, cancel open fulfillments, and cancel successful fulfillments.

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Auto-tag customers when their order is paid

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Configure this task with a customer tag, and Mechanic will take care of applying it to your customers as soon as their order payment goes through. Easy as that. :)

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes customer tag.

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Publish a certain collection, daily

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task with the companion unpublishing task (see this task's documentation) to make a certain collection of products available on a schedule, and unavailable on another schedule.

Runs 9 hours after every Monday at midnight, 9 hours after every Tuesday at midnight, 9 hours after every Wednesday at midnight, 9 hours after every Thursday at midnight, 9 hours after every Friday at midnight, 10 hours after every Saturday at midnight, and 10 hours after every Sunday at midnight. Configuration includes collection.

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Manage annual memberships based on order minimums

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to automatically tag customers as members when they purchase a minimum quantity of products. And, check on those customers on a regular basis to ensure that they maintain their order quantity minimums.

Runs when an order is paid and 12 months after user/membership/renewal is triggered. Configuration includes minimum qualifying order quantity, membership tag, months of order history to consider for renewal, minimum qualifying order quantity for renewal, and months between renewal checks.

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Email vendors when an order shipping address changes

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Keep customers happy by making sure your vendors have up-to-date shipping information. This keeps your vendors happy, too!

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes vendor email configuration, email subject, and email body.

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Catalog update email

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Get an email alert whenever a product is created, updated, or deleted. This makes it easy to keep tabs on updates to your catalog – useful if you need a precise audit trail.

Runs when a product is created, when a product is deleted, and when a product is updated. Configuration includes recipient email.

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Create a product inventory feed

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task, paired with the linked instructions, creates a feed of product inventory (optionally filtering by product type).

Runs when a user triggers the task, every day at midnight, and 12 hours after every day at midnight. Configuration includes filter by product type.

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Clean up draft orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to quickly delete draft orders from your account, optionally filtering by status, or by draft order age. Useful for keeping things tidy. :)

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes delete open draft orders, delete draft orders that have invoices sent, delete completed draft orders, minimum draft order age in days, and run daily at midnight.

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Auto-tag customers having a rolling minimum total spend

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to tag customers who reach a certain spending threshold, by scanning a rolling period of order history. Useful for rewarding customers who keep a consistent spend total.

Runs when a user triggers the task, every day at midnight, when an order is created, when an order is updated, and when an order is deleted. Configuration includes minimum total spent, customer tag, and days of order history to consider.

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Get email alerts for FBA failures

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Using Fulfillment By Amazon for your business? Stay on top of your customer experience by getting notified whenever FBA is unable to fulfill your order.

Runs when a fulfillment is created and when a fulfillment is updated. Configuration includes email recipient, email subject, and email body.

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Send email when an order comes in

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to notify staff (or suppliers, or anyone!) of incoming orders. Optionally, choose to only be notified when orders are paid, or only for orders that contain at least one product with a certain tag.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes only for orders including this product tag, email recipients, email subject, email body, and only for paid orders.

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Unpublish a certain collection, daily

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task with the companion publishing task (see this task's documentation) to make a certain collection of products available on a schedule, and unavailable on another schedule.

Runs 18 hours after every Monday at midnight, 18 hours after every Tuesday at midnight, 18 hours after every Wednesday at midnight, 18 hours after every Thursday at midnight, 18 hours after every Friday at midnight, 14 hours after every Saturday at midnight, and 14 hours after every Sunday at midnight. Configuration includes collection.

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Credit customers for sample orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Offer free samples to your customers at a nominal fee, and offer them that value back as a discount on a future order. This task generates a discount code, good for the amount of the sample order, and emails it to the customer.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes sample order total, number of days before discounts expire, email subject, email body, and number of hours to wait.

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Auto-tag orders by shipment status

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Easily segment your orders by shipment status. Tagging your orders as "Delivered", or "Out for delivery", or "Attempted delivery", or any other status, allows you to stay on top of your order flow. And, adding these tags makes it easier to wire up additional automation, keeping the connection live between your customers and their orders.

Runs when a fulfillment is created and when a fulfillment is updated. Configuration includes shipping status tags.

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Send account invites to all customers in bulk

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to send out account invitations to all the customers you already have on file, with the push of a button. Optionally, filter by customer tag.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes invitation email subject, invitation email body, and only invite customers with this tag.

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Delete variants having a metafield date that has passed

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Do you sell tickets to recurring events? Do you use a new product variant for each one? Use this task to regularly scan your catalog for product variants that have a date metafield, and to delete variants when their date has passed.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every day at midnight. Configuration includes date metafield namespace and date metafield key.

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Manage tagging for a time-limited membership product

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to automatically tag customers when they purchase specific a membership product, and then untag them after a certain amount of time has passed! (Optionally, this task can also automatically untag the customer if/when their membership order is cancelled.)

Runs when an order is paid, when an order is updated, and 1 month after user/memberships/expire is triggered. Configuration includes membership product title, membership tag, and remove tag for cancelled orders.

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Delete draft orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to clear out your draft orders, on demand. Filter by draft order status (open, invoice sent, closed), or by draft order tags.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes include open draft orders, include invoice sent draft orders, include closed draft orders, only delete draft orders having this tag, and ignore draft orders having this tag.

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Add Locksmith passcodes to order notes

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to record which Locksmith passcodes your customer used, before placing their order.

Runs when Locksmith sends a session ping and when an order is created. Configuration includes note prefix.

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Set product templates based on product tags

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to automatically select a specific product template for each of your products, based on how each product is tagged. Useful for a set-it-and-forget-it setup. :)

Runs when a user triggers the task, when a product is created, and when a product is updated. Configuration includes product tags and template suffixes.

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Auto-tag orders with chargeback or inquiry activity

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Stay on top of chargebacks and inquiries! Nightly or on-demand, this task will scan the last 60 days of your order records, and apply the tags of your choice to orders with chargeback or inquiry activity, based on what that activity looks like.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every day at midnight. Configuration includes tag for any, tag for open, tag for submitted, tag for won, and tag for lost.

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Send follow-up emails after sending a draft order invoice

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to send a follow-up email, 24 hours after you send out an email invoice for a draft order. Optionally, set this task to continue sending follow-up messages, every day after that.

Runs 24 hours after user/draft_orders/followup is triggered and when a draft order is updated. Configuration includes send daily emails, email subject, and email body.

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Sync a tag for products that have a "compare at" price

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

A quick-and-useful utility task that scans your entire product catalog, adding the tag of your choice to products that have a "compare at" price, and removing it from products that don't.

Runs when some text is submitted.

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Email someone when a certain variant is purchased

Ken Parelius (team@usemechanic.com)

This task allows you to send an email to someone when a certain variant is purchased. Requires the variant ID.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes email address, email subject, email body, reply to email address, and variant.

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Auto-tag customers who purchase an item on sale

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

When a customer orders an item on sale (technically, when the order contains a product variant that includes a "compare at" price), this task automatically adds a tag to their account. Useful for keeping track of customers who take advantage of sale pricing!

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes tag to add.

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Auto-tag products in a manual collection

Isaac Bowen (isaac@lightward.com)

If you prefer to categorize your products using manual collections, but you still need your tags to match up, use this task to monitor your manual collection and automatically tag the products it contains.

Runs when a collection is created and when a collection is updated. Configuration includes collection tag and collection.

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Save Locksmith passcodes to the customer's notes

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Keeps a cached list of all the passcodes associated with a visitor, and upon sign-in or checkout, saves that list to the customer's "note" field in Shopify. (Requires activation of Locksmith webhooks - hit up team@uselocksmith.com to get started with those.)

Runs when Locksmith sends a session ping and when an order is created.

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Rotate products through a featured collection

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task features products on a schedule, optionally publishing/unpublishing as they're featured/unfeatured. Use this task to make available exclusive products on the hourly/daily/etc, or simply to showcase a rotating selection of your best products.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes product ids to be featured, featured collection, number of products to feature at once, manage product publishing, maximum number of times to feature a product, price multiplier for featured products, tag to add after a product has been featured for the last time, run hourly, and run daily at midnight.

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Sync inventory levels to variant metafields

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to easily make your inventory levels available in your online storefront theme. This task monitors for changes to inventory, and copies inventory availability figures to metafields on the related variant.

Runs when an inventory level is connected, when an inventory level is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes metafield namespace and location ids and metafield keys.

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Generate a product discount when a voucher product is purchased

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to sell vouchers for future purchases. Buy a product, receive an emailed discount code for a discount on another specific product.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes voucher product ids and entitled product ids, discount code prefix, discount value, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-connect new products to all locations

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Using Shopify's multi-locations feature, and importing products in bulk? Use this task to automatically connect each new product to every location for your store.

Runs when a product is created. Configuration includes track inventory using shopify and allow orders for out of stock products.

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Import PayPal transactions as Shopify orders

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task when you want to record your external PayPal transactions as Shopify orders. Are you using PayPal subscriptions? Or receiving direct payments you'd like to record in Shopify? Use this task, or file a task request to have it modified for more purpose-specific uses. :) Again, this isn't for PayPal as a Shopify payment provider – it's for any time you might be using PayPal *outside* of your Shopify store.

Runs when user/paypal/ipn is triggered. Configuration includes send receipt, default memo, order requires shipping, mark as fulfilled, and send fulfillment receipt.

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Send an email to all customers

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to easily contact all of your customers at once, optionally filtering by customer tag.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes only send to customers having this tag, email subject, and email body.

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Monitor customer note for certain information

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to keep an eye on the contents of a customer's note. When the text you want to watch for is added (e.g. "Authorization number:", or "VAT Registration Number:", or anything else!), Mechanic will add the tag of your choice to the customer, and optionally send you a notification email.

Runs when a customer is created and when a customer is updated. Configuration includes text to watch for in the customer note, require a case sensitive match, customer tag to apply, and staff notification email recipient.

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Track incoming donations in a store metafield

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task watches for orders for a certain donation product, and tallies up the total donation amount in a store metafield, allowing you to display this value in your online storefront.

Runs when a user triggers the task, when an order is created, and when an order is paid. Configuration includes metafield namespace, metafield key, donation product handle, and recalculate nightly.

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Backfill customer names from order addresses

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

The merchant who requested this task removed the first- and last-name fields from their storefront's registration form, to speed up the customer signup process. This task fills in those blanks by copying the customer's name from the billing or shipping address (whichever is available), upon their first purchase.

Runs when an order is created.

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Auto-publish products tagged with the current day

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to automatically roll out your products on specific days of the week. This task runs every midnight, in your shop's local timezone, and it scans your catalog for unpublished products tagged with the current day of the week (e.g. "Monday", "tuesday", etc).

Runs every day at midnight and when a user triggers the task.

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Activate a discount when ISS passes overhead

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

You know what's worth celebrating? SPACE. Use this task to activate a discount code every time the International Space Station passes over your store (or some other location of your choice), powered by Mechanic webhooks, IFTTT, and NASA. 🚀

Runs when user/space/iss is triggered. Configuration includes discount code, notification email address, and discount percentage.

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Set a default tracking number for new fulfillments

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task is here to illustrate managing tracking numbers. If a default tracking number is right for your orders, you can use this task to make sure that one is added the instant a fulfillment is created.

Runs when a fulfillment is created. Configuration includes default tracking number.

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Raise the price of a product after every sale

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task monitors purchases for a specific product ID, and raises the price every time it's purchased, by the amount that you specify. (To be specific, this task will raise the price on the _individual variant_ that was purchased.)

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes product, increase price by this much, and maximum price.

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Send customers a reorder link X days after ordering

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to make repeat business easy. Set the number of days to wait, then let this task automatically email your customers a one-click reorder link X days after their purchase, sending them straight to checkout with their entire cart pre-filled.

Runs 30 days after an order is paid. Configuration includes order referral code, email subject, email body, and days to wait.

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Capture order payment upon fulfillment

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Short and simple. :) Upon the fulfillment of an authorized order, this task attempts to capture payment for that order.

Runs when an order is fulfilled.

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Auto-update inventory policy based on a "preorder" tag

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task manages your published product catalog, checking for the presence of a "preorder" tag, or a tag that starts with "preorder_" (like "preorder_summer"). If this tag is found, the task updates the product to allow customers to purchase the product after it's out of stock. If no preorder tag is found, the task makes sure customers *cannot* purchase the product if it's out of stock.

Runs every day at midnight and when a user triggers the task.

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Auto-tag orders based on cart attributes

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

Use this task to automatically categorize orders based on the cart attributes configured before checkout. Useful if you allow customers to supply extra information about their order, or if your cart has some hidden coding that adds cart attributes programatically.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes cart attribute to monitor and cart attribute values and tags to add.

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Temporarily add an order note

Isaac Bowen (team@usemechanic.com)

This task looks up orders by their order number, adds the note of your choice to the order record, and removes that same note 12 hours later. A bespoke task for a very specific merchant need, we publish this task as an example of getting creative with Mechanic. :)

Runs when some text is submitted and 12 hours after user/orders/remove_note is triggered. Configuration includes order note to add.

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