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Cancel and close unpaid orders after x hours/days

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Clear the clutter in your orders list, automatically! On a scheduled basis or on-demand, this task scans for orders that are more than x days or hours old, and cancels and closes/archives the order if its financial status is still marked "pending".

Runs every day at midnight and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes only process orders having this tag, ignore orders having this tag, period to wait before checking each order, period to wait is in hours, period to wait is in days, tag to add to the order, void payment when possible, restock line items, send cancellation email to customer, and test mode.

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Email customer when their order is paid

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Quickly send a thank-you email (or any other sort of follow-up email) to your customers, as soon as their order is paid. (Optionally, require one or more order tags to be present, in order for the email to be sent.) 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 required order tags at the time of payment, email subject, and email body.

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Ask for reviews a week after order fulfillment

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Follow up with your customers automatically, and establish the purchase -> earn-reviews -> attract-customers cycle. This task comes prefilled with a friendly, customizable email that gives the customer direct links to their purchases on your website, where they can leave a review using your existing review system.

Runs 7 days after an order is fulfilled. Configuration includes days to wait before emailing, only send to customers who have accepted marketing, customer tag to add after sending, ignore customers having this tag, ignore orders having this tag, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-tag customers when they purchase a matching product

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Configure this task with search terms that describe certain products, and this task will apply the tags of your choice to every customer who purchases a matching product or product variant. Run this task manually to tag all customers who have a qualifying order already on file.

Runs when an order is paid, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes search query, search for products, search for product variants, customer tags to apply, and test mode.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Hide out-of-stock products

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This task monitors inventory updates, and pulls the product from the selected sales channels whenever a product's total inventory meets your "out of stock" threshold. Optionally, it'll send you an email when it does so. This task can also be run manually, to scan all products at once.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when an inventory level is updated. Configuration includes sales channel names, email notification recipient, and out of stock inventory quantity.

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Auto-invite customers after an order

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Automatically prompt customers to activate their customer accounts, after placing an order in your store, by triggering a customizable Shopify-powered email. 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 customer has not yet been invited, only invite if the customer has this tag, only invite if the order contains a product with this tag, invitation email subject, and invitation email custom message.

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Email customers when tagged

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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, when a customer is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes tag to watch for, ignore tag case, autotag customers after emailing, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-fulfill items that don't require shipping

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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. Optionally, choose to wait until other shippable items are fulfilled, if any.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes wait until any other shippable items are fulfilled and ignore products with this tag.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Send recurring reminders about unpaid orders

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This task sends recurring unpaid order reminders to customers, emailing them on a configurable schedule, until the order is no longer "pending" or until the order is cancelled.

Runs every hour. Configuration includes include partially paid orders, limit to orders matching this query, ignore customers having this tag, initial delay period, interval period between emails, periods given are in days, periods given are in hours, email subject, email body, and test mode.

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Email customers when their order is tagged

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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, ignore orders older than this task, and ignore orders having this tag.

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Send a customer signup email

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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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Accept a maximum number of orders per day

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This task works by setting your inventory to zero when the order limit is reached. (Specifically, this means setting inventory levels to 0 for all items that have a greater-than-zero inventory level.) When the limit is reached, your inventory will be dropped to zero. If your store is configured to stop selling out-of-stock products, your customers will be prevented from making additional purchases.

Runs when an order is created and every day at midnight. Configuration includes maximum daily orders, only clear inventory for products with this tag, prepend this html to product description when order limit is reached, restore inventory levels the next day, and restore inventory levels on demand.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Auto-tag orders by product collections

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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 and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes collections and tags.

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Send email when an order is tagged

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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, ignore orders that are older than this task, email recipients, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-tag new orders based on payment method

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This task checks the payment method for new orders immediately upon order creation, and tags the order accordingly.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes payment gateway name and order tag to add.

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Auto-tag orders based on shipping method

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Quickly identify and sort orders based on their shipping method, using automatic order tags. This task supports auto-tagging incoming orders, and can be run manually to tag historical orders.

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes shipping method titles and tags and allow partial matches for shipping method titles.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Remind customers after x days about unpaid orders

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This task wait for a configurable number of days (or hours!) after an order placed, and – if the order is still unpaid – emails the customer, and optionally adds a tag to the order. This task only sends one email – it does not send repeating reminders.

Runs 7 days after an order is created. Configuration includes email subject, email body, tag to add to the order, number of days to wait, and use hours instead of days.

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Auto-tag orders using product tags

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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. Can be run manually, to scan and tag historical orders.

Runs when an order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes only copy these tags and only copy tags having this prefix.

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Auto-tag new customers

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This task tags every new customer, with the same configurable tag. :)

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes tag.

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Publish back-in-stock products

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Whenever inventory for a product is updated, this task compares its available inventory against your "back in stock" threshold. If the product is to be considered back in stock, this task will make sure it's published to the sales channels of your choice. Optionally, it'll send you an email when it publishes your product.

Runs when an inventory level is updated. Configuration includes sales channel names and email notification recipient.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Flag orders that aren't fulfilled after several days

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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 include partially fulfilled orders, 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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Move out-of-stock products to the end of a collection

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This task re-sorts your collections, beginning with the sort order of your choice (alphabetically, best selling first, etc), and then moving all out-of-stock products to the very end of the collection.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when user/reorder_collection/stage_2 is triggered. Configuration includes base sort order, collection titles or ids, run hourly, and run daily.

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Email customers after purchasing a certain product

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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, product sku, and days to wait before emailing.

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Auto-tag products by their options

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Use this task to add tags to your products, based on their options, for easy filtering. A shirt might be tagged with "Color-Blue" and "Size-XL", for example. Optionally, choose to ignore options that only appear on out-of-stock variants, or choose to apply all tags in lowercase.

Runs when a user triggers the task, when a bulk operation finishes, when a product is created, and when a product is updated. Configuration includes product options to consider, option name and value separator, use lowercase tags, ignore variants that are out of stock, run for all products daily, run for individual products when they are created or updated, and run for individual products when their inventory changes.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Delete all products

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Use this task to quickly (and permanently) clear out your product list. Optionally, filter by a specific query, so as to only delete specific products from your store. Supports a test mode, allowing you to see exactly what products you can expect Mechanic to delete.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes query, test mode, and live mode.

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Send a PDF invoice when an order is created

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Automatically generate an invoice PDF, to be emailed to the address on file for the order, if the order has not yet been paid. Useful for working with billing departments, or with anyone else who needs an order summary auto-emailed. :)

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes days to wait before emailing, email subject, email body, pdf attachment filename, and pdf html template.

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Get email alerts for out of stock products

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Use this task to keep you and your team updated when products go out of stock - and, optionally, when they go back in stock. Filter with a simple product search to only track products you care about. Choose a custom stock threshold to get a heads up before the stock level reaches zero.

Runs when an inventory level is updated and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes out of stock inventory quantity, only monitor products matching this search query, send email for out of stock products, send email for back in stock products, and stock update email recipients.

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Email your customers after a quiet period of no orders

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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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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Auto-tag products that have a "compare at" price

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This task will keep your sale tags in sync, without any manual work. Configure the task with a tag to apply (and optionally a tag for products that aren't on sale), and Mechanic will take care of applying and removing tags as appropriate. If you're using Shopify discounts, this can allow you to use automatic sale collections – based on these tags – to control eligibility for your discounts.

Runs when a product is created, when a product is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes tag for sale products, tag for all other products, and sale products must have a price lower than the compare at price.

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Automatically send account invite to new customers

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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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Send account invites to all customers in bulk

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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 only invite customers with this tag, custom subject, and custom message.

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Maintain inventory for a product bundle

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Use this task to automatically sync inventory for a simple product bundle – no theme modifications required. When configured with unique SKUs for the bundle and its components, and with quantities needed from each component for each bundle unit, this task keeps the bundle inventory set to the greatest possible value, given the quantities of its components. It also appropriately subtracts from component inventory whenever the bundle is ordered, and appropriately raises component inventory when a bundle order is refunded.

Runs when an order is created, when a refund is created, when an inventory level is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes bundle product sku, component product skus and quantities per bundle, and inventory buffer quantity.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Remind customers that their order is on the way

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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, tag to add to order, tag to add to customer, and number of days to wait.

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Auto-tag new orders using the customer's tags

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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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Auto-tag products with their vendors

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Use this task to copy each product's vendor to the product's tag. :)

Runs when a product is created, when a product is updated, and when a user triggers the task.

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Auto-tag orders that contain a matching product

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This task watches for incoming orders, and tags them if they contain a product that matches by title or by product tags. Additionally, edited orders will have tags added or removed in line with product additions or removals. Run this task manually to scan your store's order history, tagging older orders that qualify, and untagging those that have been edited and no longer do.

Runs when an order is created, when an order is edited, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes required product title, required product tags, and order tags to apply.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Auto-tag customers based on discount codes used

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Use this task to easily identify customers who used certain discount codes. This task runs automatically on incoming orders, and can be run manually to tag customers based on historical orders. Optionally, choose to remove tags, instead of adding them.

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes discount codes and tags, untag customers instead of tagging them, and allow partial matches when checking for discount codes.

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Email a CSV export of orders

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Use this task to generate and email a CSV of orders, including one row per line item. Filter with a search query or by tags, and auto-tag orders as they're exported. Run the export on demand, and/or nightly. This task is also useful as a template for further development.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes search query for orders, ignore orders with this tag, add this tag after export, export email recipient, export email subject, export email body, export csv filename, and run export nightly.

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Auto-fulfill orders when tagged

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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 to watch for, ignore if this order tag is found, and notify customer on fulfillment.

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Auto-tag new orders

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

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

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Auto-tag orders by discount code

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This task watches for newly-created orders, and copies any discount codes present to the order's tags.

Runs when an order is created.

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Auto-tag customers when their order is tagged

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This task watches for order tags, and adds a corresponding tag to the customer whenever a known order tag is found.

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes order tags and customer tags.

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Sync inventory across product variants

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Useful for multiple price points, or for offering customizations of the same item, this task lets you offer multiple variant listings for what is ultimately the same stock. A purchase of a particular variant results in the inventory for all other variants, for the same product, being lowered by the amount ordered.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every 10 minutes. Configuration includes product types to monitor.

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Auto-verify customer email addresses

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Use this task to perform an extra verification step for your newly-created customers, in which a verification code is emailed to them, along with a link to a form on your online storefront where they can enter the code for verification. Once verified, the customer will be tagged, and sent a confirmation email.

Runs when a customer is created and when user/customers/verify_webhook is triggered. Configuration includes tag to add after verifying, verification email subject, verification email body, verification confirmed email subject, verification confirmed email body, and verification webhook event topic.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Auto-tag orders based on customer account tags

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Use this task to apply certain tags to newly-created orders, based on what tags are on the associated customer. Configure this task with one-to-one mappings of customer tags to look for, connected to order tags to add.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes customer tags to look for and order tags to add.

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Tag products as in- or out-of-stock, by location ID

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Use this task to easily keep an eye on which products are in stock, or out of stock, as established by individual locations. Configure tag prefixes and suffixes to arrive at product tags resembling "location-123456890-instock" or "oos-123456890". Configure this task to run hourly or daily, to keep these tags in sync.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes tag prefix when in stock, tag suffix when in stock, tag prefix when out of stock, tag suffix when out of stock, run daily, and run hourly.

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Auto-tag customers with product tags from their order

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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. This task supports running manually, to scan and tag all customers based on their order history, or a subset of customers by using a query filter.

Runs when an order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes limit to customers matching this query for manual runs and only copy these tags.

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Send an email alert when a variant hits 0 total inventory

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Use this task to receive an immediate email alert, whenever a variant's total inventory hits 0, when added up across all locations.

Runs when an inventory level is updated. Configuration includes email subject, email body, and email recipient.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Receive a nightly out-of-stock report

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Based on an out-of-stock threshold you define, this task sends you an email summary (with CSV attachment) of all variants that are out of stock in any location. Run this task manually to receive the report on demand.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every day at midnight. Configuration includes out of stock quantity, report recipient email, and report subject.

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Auto-tag customers by purchased SKUs

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Use this task to keep customers tagged with the SKUs of the products they've purchased, optionally ignoring product purchases that have been refunded. Add a tag prefix to make SKU tags easy to distinguish from your other customer tags. This task also stores all purchased SKUs in a customer metafield, dodging the 250 tag limit that exists for customers.

Runs when an order is paid and when a refund is created. Configuration includes tag prefix, ignore refunded purchases, enable running manually, customer query when running manually, and test mode.

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Auto-generate SKUs

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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. Configuration includes product options to keep unabbreviated.

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Automatically cancel high-risk orders

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This task immediately cancels orders as soon as Shopify (or another risk-analysis app) determines it to be high risk. Optionally, this task can also auto-tag the order, email the customer, and attempt to void or refund payment.

Runs when an order is updated. Configuration includes cancellation reason, ignore unpaid orders, attempt to void or refund payment for cancelled orders, email customer when cancelling, and add this order tag when cancelling.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Send email when an order comes in

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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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Auto-tag out-of-stock products

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Does what it says on the tin. :) Optionally, emails you an alert when a product goes out of stock.

Runs when an inventory level is updated and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes out of stock inventory level, product tag, and email alert recipient.

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Remove a customer tag when another tag is added

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Does exactly as it says. :)

Runs when a customer is updated. Configuration includes customer tag to watch for, customer tag to remove, and ignore tag case.

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Abandoned checkout emails

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Roll your own abandoned checkout emails with this task – or, modify it to perform any other actions that your business needs when a checkout 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 24 hours 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, email body, and hours to wait before sending email.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Auto-tag new products by age

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This task scans every product in your store, and adds or removes the tags you configure, according to how many days have passed since the product was created. (Or published, if you prefer!)

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes product tags and maximum age in days, use product publish times instead of creation times, run daily, and run hourly.

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Delete cancelled orders after 48 hours

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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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Generate a simple product catalog PDF

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This task is a simple demonstration of pulling product titles and images into a PDF, resulting in a simple catalog of the products available in your store. Use it as a starting point for building something more complex.

Runs when a user triggers the task.

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Auto-tag orders based on cart attributes

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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 order tags to add.

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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Tag online orders by their ?ref= referral codes

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Have your traffic sources refer customers using ?ref=referral-code-here URLs (using the query parameter of your choice), then use this task to automatically tag each customer's order according to the referral value they arrived with. Optionally, tag the customer as well.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes query parameter name, cart attribute name, tag customer with parameter value, and only tag the customer for their first order.

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Sync inventory for shared SKUs

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This task monitors all variants having a SKU that you configure, and ensures that changes to inventory quantity are reflected across all variants sharing that SKU.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every 10 minutes. Configuration includes product skus to monitor.

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Tag products with no images

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Running manually or on a schedule, this task scans all products in your store, and adds a tag to any products that have no images. Optionally, choose to have this task remove that tag from any products that are found to have an image.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes product tag to add, remove product tag if images are found, run every 10 minutes, run hourly, and run daily.

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Capture order payment upon fulfillment

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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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Need additional functionality? Mechanic tasks are made with Liquid, making them approachable for Shopify developers of all levels. Check out any of these tasks to see example code, or see the Mechanic documentation. Then, create your own task. :)

Auto-tag orders by shipment status

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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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Auto-tag products that are missing costs

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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 customers by order tier

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Use this task to tag customers by tier, based on how many orders they've placed or by the sum of all their order totals (i.e. total spend). Optionally, configure a customers query, limiting the set of customers that are processed. You may also configure an order query, specifying for things like a rolling time period, or fulfillment status. This task is useful for rewarding customers who establish or maintain a specific spend level.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes order minimums and customer tags, only keep the customer tag for the highest order minimum, tag customers by number of orders, tag customers by sum of order totals, only process customers matching this query, only count orders matching this query, run hourly, and run daily.

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Auto-tag customers with who have accounts

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This task monitors customer accounts, and applies the tag of your choice to customers that have an enabled account, with a registered email address and active password. It untags customers whose accounts are disabled. This task can be run manually to tag/untag all existing customers.

Runs when a customer is created, when a customer is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes customer tag to apply and test mode.

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Tag products by their price ranges

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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 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 tag prefix, range maximum, range minimum, range increment, use only the single smallest range that applies to each variant, and use every range that applies to each variant.

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Tag orders in bulk by order name

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Use this task to rapidly update your order list, by entering a set of order names (e.g. "#12345", often called order numbers) and the tags to apply to those orders.

Runs when some text is submitted.

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Auto-tag orders by shipping address country

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This task automatically adds the tag of your choice to incoming orders, based on the country in the order's shipping address.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes country code and tag to apply.

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Manage tagging for a time-limited membership product

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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 and when user/memberships/expire is triggered. Configuration includes membership product title, membership tag, days to wait before untagging, and remove tag immediately for cancelled orders.

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Auto-tag orders with their tracking numbers

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Tracking numbers aren't generally searchable within Shopify. Use this task to fix that, by copying all fulfillment tracking numbers over to the order itself, as (searchable!) order tags.

Runs when a fulfillment is created, when a fulfillment is updated, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes.

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Email a CSV export of products

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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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Maintain a collection of new products

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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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Unpublish products that have been out of stock for x days

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This task monitors for inventory changes, and records the time when a product's inventory falls to 0 or less. Then, on an hourly basis, the task will unpublish any products with a recorded out-of-stock time of at least x days ago.

Runs when an inventory level is updated and every hour. Configuration includes number of days to wait before unpublishing, sales channel names, only include products matching this search query, and test mode.

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Auto-tag orders that contain an out of stock item

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This task watches for newly-created orders, and checks each line item for that variant's total inventory quantity. If any are found with an inventory level of 0 or less, the task will add the tag of your choice to the order – and, optionally, will add a tag to the customer and to each product related to an out-of-stock line item.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes apply this order tag, apply this customer tag, and apply this product tag for each out of stock line item.

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Auto-tag orders with UTM parameters

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This task automatically tags incoming orders with the UTM campaign, content, medium, source, and/or term associated with the customer's visit. Run this task manually to tag your existing orders.

Runs when an order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes tag with utm campaign, tag with utm content, tag with utm medium, tag with utm source, and tag with utm term.

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Send an email alert on fulfillment failure

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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-tag orders by sales channel

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Use this task to tag orders as they come in, based on which sales channel created them. Run this task manually to backfill tags for customers based on their historical orders.

Runs when an order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes sales channel names and tags.

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Auto-tag customers having a rolling minimum total spend

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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 to apply, days of order history to consider, and only monitor customers having this tag.

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Auto-tag customers with vendors after ordering

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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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Auto-tag customers when their order is paid

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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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Demonstration: Order editing

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This task demonstrates Shopify's ability to edit orders through the admin API. It's intended to be a starting place for developing more specific functionality. Out of the box, this task automatically adds a product to orders that (optionally) meet an order minimum.

Runs when an order is created and when an action is performed. Configuration includes minimum order total, variant id to add, quantity to add, notify customer, and staff note.

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Auto-copy notes from customers to their orders

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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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Auto-invite customers when tagged

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This task watches for updates to customers, and sends invites for any customer who has the tag you choose, who hasn't previously been invited. This task also supports sending invitations in bulk, to all tagged customers who haven't previously been invited.

Runs when a customer is created, when a customer is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes tag to watch for, ignore tag case, invitation email subject, and invitation email body.

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Auto-tag orders that are ready to ship

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Use this task to tag orders, as they are created, if every single line item is related to a variant that's in stock. Optionally, choose to tag qualifying unfulfilled orders whenever an inventory level is updated.

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes ignore line items not fulfilled manually, order tag to add, scan unfulfilled orders when inventory is updated, test mode, run every 10 minutes, and run hourly.

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Email all customers who made a purchase

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Need to reach customers who made a specific purchase? This task scans your order history, looking for orders that match the conditions you specify. For each qualifying order, the task sends an email to the customer, optionally linking to the product(s) ordered.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes search query for orders, product ids to look for, variant ids to look for, email subject, email body, add this tag to matching orders, test mode, and i certify that messages sent here are related to customer activity.

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Send customers a reorder link X days after ordering

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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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Auto-remove a customer tag x days after it's added

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Use this this task to monitor for the addition of a new customer tag, and to schedule the customer to be untagged some number of days later. Useful for granting temporary access to discounts, or other resources.

Runs when a customer is created, when a customer is updated, and when user/task/untag_customer is triggered. Configuration includes tag to monitor and days to wait before untagging.

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Tag orders that have at least x of a certain product

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Use this task to monitor for orders that meet a certain quantity threshold, per line item or totaled up, optionally only looking at certain SKUs. Optionally, send yourself an email notification when such an order comes in.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes minimum quantity threshold, evaluate threshold per line item, only monitor these skus, order tag to apply, and email notification recipient.

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Auto-tag new orders with their fulfillment locations

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Monitoring for brand-new orders, this task tags each order with the fulfillment locations that Shopify automatically assigns at the moment of order creation. (Note: It's not currently possible to adjust tags when assigned fulfillment locations change.)

Runs when an order is created.

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Email vendors when their products are ordered

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Use this task to notify vendors when items of theirs have been purchased, by providing this task with a list of vendor names, and the related email addresses.

Runs when an order is created and when user/orders/send_vendor_email is triggered. Configuration includes vendors and email addresses, email subject, and email body.

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Add all products to a certain sales channel

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Does exactly as it says: this task will publish all products to the sales channel(s) of your choice, on demand. Optionally, filter products by a search query, or choose to have this task run every ten minutes, hourly, or daily.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes sales channel names, only publish products matching this query, test mode, run every 10 minutes, run hourly, and run daily.

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Create a product inventory feed

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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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Email a summary of all products and quantities ordered

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Use this task to send yourself a quick tally of everything currently waiting in your order list. Super simple: just a list of products, and how many of each were ordered.

Runs every Monday at midnight and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes only include open orders, only include fully paid orders, only include fully unfulfilled orders, count quantities by variant instead of by product, email recipient, email subject, day of week to send email, and allow sending manually.

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Auto-capture payments when an order is created

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This task runs immediately after an order is created, and captures an authorized transaction if one is present. Choose which risk levels to capture for, and optionally choose to filter by order tag. You may also choose to only capture funds for line items that do not require shipping.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes number of minutes to wait before capturing, capture orders with a high risk level, capture orders with a medium risk level, capture orders with a low risk level, required order tag, and only capture for line items that do not require shipping.

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Auto-tag customers based on email domain

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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 and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes customer email domains and customer tag to apply.

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Tag customers in bulk by email address

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This task prompts you for a list of email addresses and tags, one pair per line, in the format "customer@example.com:tag". The task adds each tag to its related customer. Developers: this task is an example of working in batches with GraphQL – useful when working with bulk data.

Runs when some text is submitted.

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Send an email alert when a customer places more than 2 orders in 24 hours

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Use this task to receive an email alert whenever a single customer exceeds a configurable order count, over the last configurable number of hours.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes order count threshold, number of hours to look back, email recipient, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-capture order payment after x days

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Short and simple. Captures order payment for un-cancelled orders that have a financial status of "authorized", after waiting 30 days (or another timespan of your choice).

Runs 30 days after an order is created. Configuration includes days to wait before capturing.

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Auto-tag products in a manual collection

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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 user triggers the task and when a collection is updated. Configuration includes collection tag and collection.

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Auto-tag orders with a cart attribute

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This task checks for incoming orders, watching for orders that have a specific cart attribute filled in. When present, the task then copies that attribute over to the order's tags.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes cart attribute to monitor.

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Email someone when a certain product is purchased

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This task sends an email notification, immediately after an order is paid - if a product in the order has a title matching the product title you configure. Optionally, configure this task with a delay, in days, to wait before sending the email. (The task will not send any emails for orders that have since been cancelled.)

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes product title, email address, email subject, email body, reply to email address, and number of days to wait before emailing.

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Trigger order emails with a tag

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This task monitors order tags, and sends out an email that you configure whenever a certain tag is added. Supports email templates, and sending to custom recipients.

Runs when an order is updated. Configuration includes email trigger tag, email sent tag, email subject, and email body html.

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Send follow-up emails after sending a draft order invoice

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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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Auto-tag orders with mismatching billing and shipping addresses

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Useful for flagging orders for manual follow-up, for stores that see fraudulent activity in which billing and shipping address are not the same.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes order tag to add.

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Generate a discount code when a certain product is purchased

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This task watches for newly-paid orders, and if the configured product is purchased, sends the customer a discount code that's just for them. Optionally, configure the discounts to only apply to a certain collection of products, and to only last for a certain number of days.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes required product, discount collection, discount code prefix, discount fixed amount, discount percentage, discount applies to each line item individually, discount lifetime in days, discount can be used by anyone, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-tag new products by "back in stock" age

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This task monitors changes to inventory level, records the time at which a product's total inventory passes your configured threshold, and then maintains a set of tags indicating how recently the product returned to "back in stock" status.

Runs when an inventory level is updated, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes back in stock inventory level, product tags and maximum age in days, run daily, and run hourly.

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Send a message to Slack

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Purely for demonstration purposes, this task illustrates how one might set up a script to send Slack messages. As written, this task requires a Slack incoming webhook URL - [learn how to generate this](https://api.slack.com/incoming-webhooks#getting-started). Then, [learn more about sending to Slack with Mechanic](https://help.usemechanic.com/en/articles/3297438-can-i-send-messages-to-slack).

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes slack incoming webhook url.

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Auto-tag cancelled orders

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This task watches for order cancellations, and adds or removes tags according to your preference. Run this task manually to update tags for existing cancelled orders.

Runs when an order is updated and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes tags to add and tags to remove.

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Auto-cancel fulfillments when an order is tagged

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Useful when you discover that an order shouldn't have been fulfilled at all. :) After choosing an order tag in this task's configuration, add that tag to any order to have its fulfillments all cancelled, and the tag removed.

Runs when an order is updated and when user/orders/cancel_fulfillment is triggered. Configuration includes required order tag.

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Sync inventory levels to variant metafields

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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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Keep inventory levels in sync within products

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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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Email customers when created

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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 products that meet a sales threshold

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Out of the box, this task scans the last week's worth of paid orders, and auto-tags products that meet the sales threshold of your choice, removing the tag from products that no longer qualify. This scan can be run on demand (with the "Run task" button), and will otherwise run nightly.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every day at midnight. Configuration includes tally by line item quantity, tally by line item subtotals, tally by number of orders, minimum tally threshold per product, product tag to apply, and order query.

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Generate a report of orders that still require payment

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This task generates a CSV spreadsheet, listing orders that are unpaid, partially paid, or pending payment. The resulting report is emailed to the recipient of your choice. Optionally, choose to have this report generated hourly, or daily.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes include closed orders, recipient email address, email subject, email body, csv attachment filename, run hourly, and run daily.

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Create a draft order from the cart

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Use this task as a starting point, for allowing visitors to submit their carts to be transformed into draft orders, associated with their customer account. Installing and customizing this task requires some level of comfort with Liquid, HTML, and JavaScript.

Runs . Configuration includes shared secret, mechanic webhook event topic, and mechanic webhook url.

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Auto-tag customers by sales channel

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Use this task to tag customers, as their orders come in, based on which sales channel they used for their purchase. Run this task manually to backfill tags for customers based on their historical orders. Use test mode to see what this task _would_ do, if test mode wasn't enabled. :)

Runs when an order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes sales channel names and tags and test mode.

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Sync variant inventory within a product by pack size

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Use this task to sell a single product in different pack sizes, keeping inventory levels synchronized appropriately, storing the "master" inventory level in a product tag (e.g. "inventory:50").

Runs when an order is created, when a product is created, and when a product is updated. Configuration includes product inventory tag prefix, variant pack size option name, variant pack size metafield namespace, variant pack size metafield key, and run when orders are paid instead of when they are created.

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Tag products as in- or out-of-stock

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This task scans your products, in bulk, and tags them according to whether or not they're in stock. Optionally, configure this task to monitor products for live auto-tagging.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes in stock tag, out of stock tag, and monitor products for inventory updates.

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Email someone specific based on a new order's customer tags

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Use customer tags to assign staff email addresses to specific customers. When a new order arrives from a customer who has an assignment tag, this task will email the related staff member.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes customer tags and assigned email recipients, email subject, and email body.

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Set product templates based on product tags

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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 new orders with product SKUs

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This task watches for new orders, and tags each order with all line item SKUs found in that order.

Runs when an order is created.

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Send your customers reorder reminders

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Useful for customers who need recurring reminders to reorder. Optionally filtering by a customer tag, this task monitors the most recent order for each customer, and sends them reminders every x days since that order.

Runs every day at midnight and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes only include customers having this tag, number of days to wait between emails, email subject, email body, and test mode.

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Auto-sort collections by product properties

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This task re-sorts your collections by any product property that you choose. A property lookup can be something simple, like "published_at", or more complicated: use multiple property lookups, like "metafields", "store", and "priority", to sort collections by product metafield values.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes product property lookups, only sort these collections, reverse sort, run hourly, and run daily.

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Keep SKUs up to date with barcodes

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Included as a good example of keeping one attribute synced up with another, this task copies new barcode values over to the variant SKU, whenever a barcode is found and the SKU is out of date.

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

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Auto-pay orders having a certain tag

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Use this task to quickly designate certain orders to be automatically marked as paid. Runs for orders as they're created and updated, and can also be run manually, to scan all orders in your store at once.

Runs when an order is created, when an order is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes required order tag and test mode.

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Auto-copy order notes to the customer's note

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This task appends order notes to the related customer's note, whenever the order note changes.

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes note prefix.

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Maintain a collection of recently purchased products

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This task watches for newly-paid orders (or newly-fulfilled orders, if you choose), and adds or moves the purchased products to the top of the collection of your choice. Optionally, ignore products that are sold out. Useful for "trending products" functionality. :)

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes collection maximum size, collection, ignore products that are sold out, and wait until order is fulfilled.

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Auto-tag products based on their product type

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This task monitors new and updated products, applying the tag(s) of your choice to them based on their individual product type. Run this task manually to tag all of your products at once.

Runs when a product is created, when a product is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes product types and tags and remove product tags in this list when they do not apply.

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Auto-publish new products

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Use this task to automatically make add new products to the sales channels of your choice, making each product available on each channel immediately after the product is created.

Runs when a product is created. Configuration includes sales channel names.

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Import PayPal transactions as Shopify orders

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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 only import these transaction types, only import completed transactions, send receipt, default memo, order requires shipping, mark as fulfilled, and send fulfillment receipt.

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Auto-tag new orders using Liquid

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This task offers an introduction to using Liquid to dynamically update your orders. This task comes with example Liquid code, showing you how to tag an order as "even" or "odd", based on whether the order number is even or odd; replace this Liquid with whatever suits your purposes. :)

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes order tag value.

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Export a CSV of order shipping addresses

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Useful for quickly preparing labels, or planning a drop-off route.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes orders search query, include name in formatted address, include company in formatted address, and csv email recipient.

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Auto-tag customers within a purchase range

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Use this task to auto-tag customers when their historical purchase total falls within a certain range. For example, by configuring this task to evaluate purchase thresholds by number of orders, and by setting the minimum to "1" and the maximum to "12", this task will auto-tag customers who've made at least 1 purchase, and will *remove* the tag when the 13th purchase is made.

Runs when an order is created and when an order is cancelled. Configuration includes purchase minimum, purchase maximum, evaluate purchase thresholds by number of orders, evaluate purchase thresholds by adding line item quantities, evaluate purchase thresholds by adding line item subtotals, only count paid orders, only count this product, and customer tag to apply.

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Auto-recurring draft orders

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This task searches for draft orders having the configured tag, and duplicates each one (minus the tag used for searching). Optionally, this task can automatically send an invoice to the customer on file, after the new draft order is created. Or, this task can auto-complete the order, marking the order as paid if you so chose. (Auto-completed orders will result in an email receipt being sent to the customer on file for the original draft order.)

Runs when a user triggers the task and every day at midnight. Configuration includes draft order tag, cycle start date, number of days in cycle, complete the order after creating, complete the order and mark as paid after creating, send email invoice after creating, email invoice subject, email invoice bcc, and email invoice custom message.

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Rotate products through a featured collection

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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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Auto-tag customers when another tag is added

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Does exactly as it says. :) Optionally, use combinations of tags to require, and/or combinations of tags to add.

Runs when a customer is created and when a customer is updated. Configuration includes tags to watch for and tags to add and remove tag to add when the corresponding tag to watch for is removed.

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Auto-archive orders after fulfillment

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Just as it says. :) Archives orders immediately upon fulfillment, or after a configurable number of days.

Runs when an order is fulfilled. Configuration includes days to wait after fulfillment before archiving.

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Auto-tag a customer's first order

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Watches for incoming orders that are the very first order on file for the related customer, and adds the tag of your choice.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes order tag to add.

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Unpublish a certain collection, daily

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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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Auto-tag products based on their publishing status

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This task manages tagging for products, according to whether or not they're published for the sales channel of your choice. Choose a tag to use when the product is published, and/or a tag for when the product is unpublished.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes tag to add when published, tag to add when unpublished, sales channel name, run every 10 minutes, run hourly, and run daily.

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Accept a maximum number of orders per hour

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This task works by monitoring the number of orders created per hour, and clearing the inventory for all in-stock items when the hourly order limit is reached. Optionally, this task can restore inventory to its original levels at minute zero of the next hour, or on demand.

Runs when an order is created and every hour. Configuration includes maximum hourly orders, only clear inventory for products with this tag, restore inventory levels the next hour, and restore inventory levels on demand.

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Archive orders when tagged

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Add a tag, have the order automatically archived/closed. Simple. :)

Runs when an order is created, when an order is updated, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes required tag and allow manual unarchiving of orders.

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Archive orders on delivery

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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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Reset inventory levels when they get too low

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Use this task to automatically maintain minimum inventory levels. Optionally, filter by variant or product ID, or by variant option, or by product type, choosing whether to blacklist or whitelist your filter selections.

Runs when an inventory level is updated. Configuration includes minimum inventory level, location, whitelist filter mode, blacklist filter mode, filter for these variant ids, filter for these variant options, filter for these product types, and filter for these product ids.

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Copy product metafields to each product's tags

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This task exists to fill the gap between Shopify's admin product search, and product metafields. Use this task to copy metafield values to product tags, allowing you to filter products by tags based on those metafields.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes metafield namespace, metafield key, monitor new products, and test mode.

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Calculate total quantities purchased by SKU

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This task scans all orders, regardless of status, and counts up the lifetime quantity purchased for each SKU, listing each SKU with its quantity and all related order names. This task demonstrates Shopify's bulk operations API.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes.

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Auto-tag new orders by staff member

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Use this task to easily keep track of who's responsible for which orders. Works for draft orders, too!

Runs when an order is created and when a draft order is created. Configuration includes tag orders, tag draft orders, and staff names and tags.

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Send a follow-up email after order cancellation

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Use this task to easily check in on customers, after an order of theirs is cancelled. Optionally, queue up the email for a certain number of hours from the time of cancellation.

Runs when an order is cancelled. Configuration includes only send for first time customers, hours to wait after cancellation, email subject, and email body.

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Copy order and/or product tags to customers

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Run this task to scan all of your customers and their order histories in bulk, copying order and/or product tags to the relevant customer. Optionally, configure a specific set of tags to look for, when scanning. Optionally, choose to remove those tags if a qualifying source can't be found - useful for adding customer tags that expire after ordering!

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes include order tags, include product tags, only include customers matching this query, only include orders matching this query, only copy these tags, remove those tags if a qualifying source cannot be found, and run daily.

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Monitor customer note for certain information

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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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Auto-tag fulfilled orders with their carriers

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When an order is fulfilled, this task will scan the tracking information for each fulfillment. The name of each tracking company on file – i.e. the fulfillment carrier – will then be added to the order as a tag.

Runs when an order is fulfilled.

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Auto-tag products when another tag is added

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Does exactly as it says. :)

Runs when a product is created and when a product is updated. Configuration includes tags to watch for and tags to add and remove tag to add when the corresponding tag to watch for is removed.

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

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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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Publish a certain collection, daily

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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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Reset inventory levels daily

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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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Clean up draft orders

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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 orders that do not have a certain tag

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This task monitors for new and updated orders, adding a tag if a certain other tag is found missing. If and when the order does receive that certain other tag, the task's tag will be removed.

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes order tag to watch for and order tag to add.

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Auto-tag customers with the location of their purchase

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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, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes tag for online orders.

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Auto-add an order note for returning customers

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Use this task to identify orders that are for customers who have previously ordered from your store. Optionally, ignore more frequent purchasers, by ignoring customers who've made an order recently. Useful for making sure to include a welcome-back gift in order shipments. :)

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes ignore customers who previously ordered after this date, ignore customers who previously ordered less than x days ago, and order note to add.

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Auto-tag orders with product tags

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This task watches for new orders, and copies tags from each ordered product to the order itself.

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

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Record Judge.me customer review counts

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Using Judge.me for reviews? Use this task to keep a counter for each customer's reviews, stored as a metafield on the customer record. And, auto-tag customers as they reach different levels of review counts - useful for granting discounts or special access to repeat reviewers.

Runs when a Judge.me review is created. Configuration includes metafield namespace required, metafield key, and tags to apply for review counts.

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Add fulfillment tracking when an order is tagged

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Configure this tag with a mapping of country codes to tracking companies and URL templates, and/or default companies and URL templates. When an order is tagged, this task will apply the appropriate values to each fulfillment that has a tracking number.

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes order tag to watch for, country codes and tracking url templates, default tracking url template, overwrite existing tracking urls, country codes and tracking companies, default tracking company, and notify customers.

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Send new customer signups to IFTTT

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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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Delete draft orders older than 30 days

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Keep your draft order list tidy - use this task to automatically delete orders that are older than a configurable number of days.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes days to wait before deleting a draft order, test mode, and run daily.

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Sync an inverse customer tag

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Shopify's customer group filters allow you to filter by the tags the customer contains – but not the tags a customer does not contain. Use this task to sync an "inverse" tag to all customers who do not have a particular tag, allowing you to filter customers in Shopify by that inverse tag.

Runs when a customer is created, when a customer is updated, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes customer tag to watch and customer tag to use when missing.

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Auto-add default custom attributes to new orders

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Shopify allows orders to have custom attributes associated with them – and these attributes can be edited from within Shopify. Use this task to configure default attributes to be added to all new orders, providing an attribute name and (optionally) a value. Feel free to leave the value blank if you know you'll want to add your own values later, within Shopify.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes default order attributes to add.

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Send an email alert when a fulfillment is cancelled

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Useful for keeping an eye on unexpected cancellations by third party shipping services.

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

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Reset negative inventory levels to zero in bulk

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Super simple. Scans all inventory levels in your store, on demand, and brings the negative ones back up to zero. Optionally, configure this task to run nightly.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes run daily at midnight.

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Auto-tag orders with customer tags when new customer tags are added

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Activating this task will automatically keep the order tags up to date with the customer's tags.

Runs when a customer is updated.

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Cancel fulfillments when an order is fully refunded

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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 new online orders by web browser

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This task monitors incoming orders, and tags them with information about the customer's web browser.

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes include browser version.

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Email customers a unique discount code, two weeks after order fulfillment

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This task generates a brand new discount code (copying configuration from another code, of your choice), and emails it to the customer, after waiting a configurable number of days after order fulfillment.

Runs 14 days after an order is fulfilled. Configuration includes days to wait after order fulfillment, source discount code for cloning, override source with this discount validitity period in days, new discount code prefix, email subject, email body, and email bcc.

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Auto-add phone numbers to unfulfilled orders, when the customer is updated

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When a customer update occurs, if the customer has a phone number on file, this task will look for unshipped or partially shipped orders that don't yet have a phone number on file, and will add the customer's phone number to those orders.

Runs when a customer is updated.

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Auto-tag customers that accept marketing

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Use this task to easily keep track of customers who accept marketing, adding a tag for those that do and removing it from customers who do not. Run this task manually to sync that tag for all customers.

Runs when a user triggers the task, when a customer is created, and when a customer is updated. Configuration includes customer tag to add.

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Standardize UK postcodes

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This task watches for incoming orders for the United Kingdom, and reformats any address postcodes that are not in the standard formats "XX XXX", "XXX XXX", and "XXXX XXX".

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes standardize billing postcodes, standardize shipping postcodes, and only scan open orders when running manually.

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Reissue single-use discount codes after order cancellation

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This task watches for cancellations of orders that have either a single-use discount code, or a discount code that can only be used once per customer. When such an order is found, this task creates a new copy of the discount exclusively for the related customer, using a new discount code, and emails it to the customer.

Runs when an order is cancelled. Configuration includes ignore discount codes containing this text, email subject, email body, and email bcc.

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Auto-tag products by their publish date

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This task formats the publish date of each product (according to the format you choose), adds a prefix (also of your choosing), and applies it to each product. Run this task manually to scan your entire product catalog at once, or wait for the task to run automatically when products are created or updated.

Runs when a user triggers the task, when a product is created, and when a product is updated. Configuration includes date format and tag prefix.

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Bulk capture orders by order number

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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 new customers with the current date

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Use this task to tag incoming customers with the current date/time, using the format of your choice, and optionally a prefix and suffix. If you like, enable "Wait until the customer is enabled" to apply the tag when the customer's online account is activated, rather than when the customer is first created.

Runs when a customer is created and when a customer is created. Configuration includes tag date format, tag prefix, tag suffix, and wait until the customer is enabled.

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Auto-tag orders by financial status

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This task watches new and updated orders, and updates their tags according to their financial status.

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes financial statuses and tags and remove outdated financial status tags.

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Sync inventory across a product type

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Useful for custom orders, this task lets you offer multiple product and variant listings for what is ultimately the same stock. A purchase for a single product leads to the inventory for all other listings, of the same product type, being lowered by the amount ordered.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every 10 minutes. Configuration includes product types to monitor.

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Send an email alert when a customer changes state

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This task monitors for updates to a customer's state (account disabled, password set, invited, or invitation declined), and sends alert emails for any state changes you care about.

Runs when a customer is updated and when a customer is created. Configuration includes email when a customer declines an invitation, email when a customer account is disabled, email when a customer initially sets an account password, email when a customer is invited, and email recipient.

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Auto-remove a product tag x days after it's added

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Use this this task to monitor for the addition of a new product tag, and to schedule the product to be untagged some number of days later. Useful for temporarily adding a product to a collection, or qualifying the product for some other temporary functionality.

Runs when a product is created, when a product is updated, and when user/task/untag_product is triggered. Configuration includes tag to monitor and days to wait before untagging.

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Make products unavailable, after the date/time stored in product metafields

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Use this task to automatically set product inventory to 0, and the product's inventory policy to deny out-of-stock purchases, after a date/time that you specify in a product metafield.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes datetime product metafield namespace, datetime product metafield key, datetime format, run hourly, run daily, and test mode.

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Schedule a storefront banner

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Use this task to publish a banner, to be displayed across your online storefront. This task comes with some pre-configured HTML and CSS – customize to taste. :)

Runs . Configuration includes starting date and time, ending date and time, banner html, and banner parent css selector.

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Auto-tag orders by their risk level

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This task applies the tag of your choice to incoming orders, based on the risk level determined for the order. Run this task manually to tag all orders in your store's records, according to their respective risk levels. Combine this task with an email task, to email customers when their order is flagged.

Runs when an order is updated and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes risk levels and tags.

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Tag customers when their last order is before/after x days ago

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Running daily, hourly, or manually, this task scans all customers and tags them based on the date of their last order. Choose between tagging customers whose orders are before x days ago, or after x days ago.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes days since last order, tag customers when last order is after, tag customers when last order is before, customer tag, run hourly, and run daily.

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Catalog update email

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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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Auto-tag orders when another tag is added

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Does exactly as it says. :)

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes tags to watch for and tags to add and remove tag to add when the corresponding tag to watch for is removed.

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Auto-tag customers who purchase an item on sale

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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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Unpublish products when tagged

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This task watches for certain product tags, and removes the product from the selected sales channel(s) when those tags are found.

Runs when a product is updated. Configuration includes product tags to watch for, require product to have all given tags before unpublishing, and sales channel names.

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Auto-tag draft orders by originating staff member

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Use this task to keep track of who created what draft order. This task watches for new draft orders, and tags each one with the name of the store staff member who created it. This task can also be run manually, to scan and tag all draft orders already in your store.

Runs when a draft order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes tag prefix.

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Auto-tag orders created from drafts

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This task monitors for newly-created orders, and auto-tags any that were originally based on a Shopify draft order, using the tag of your choice.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes tag to add.

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Manage fulfillment status using order tags

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Use this task to easily set the shipment status of your single-fulfillment orders. Just add a tag, and a new fulfillment event will be recorded, using the corresponding shipment status.

Runs when an order is updated. Configuration includes shipping status tags.

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Auto-tag new draft orders

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

Runs when a draft order is created. Configuration includes draft order tags to add.

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Capture all authorized payments

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This task will scan for all orders that have a financial status of "authorized", and will capture payment for them. This task can be scheduled to run daily, and can be run on demand.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes include partially paid orders, run daily, and hours to wait after midnight when running daily.

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Auto-connect new products to all locations

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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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Auto-tag orders with product vendors

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Use this task to automatically tag incoming orders with the vendor of each product in the order.

Runs when an order is created.

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Generate a product discount when a voucher product is purchased

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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-tag products by largest available size

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This task watches for incoming updates to inventory levels, and auto-tags the product according to the largest in-stock size. This task is specifically made to work with numeric variant options (e.g. "10", "11", "12", etc). This task can also be run manually, and can be configured to run daily.

Runs when an inventory level is updated, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes largest size tag prefix, size option name, minimum number of variants in stock before tagging, and run daily.

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Email a report of pick-up orders for the next x days

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Using Zapiet to track store pickups? This task filters for orders that are tagged by Zapiet for pickup, and emails you a report of how many orders are scheduled for each of the next few days. Useful for scanning the week ahead, and blacking out dates that are at capacity.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every day at midnight. Configuration includes tagged with, date tag format, days ahead, email recipient, and email subject.

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Auto-prefix tracking numbers for each new fulfillment

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This task runs immediately after each new fulfillment is created, and adds a prefix to its tracking number, if a tracking number is present.

Runs when a fulfillment is created. Configuration includes tracking number prefix to add and notify customer.

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Archive orders when fulfilled

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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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Manage collection templates by product inventory

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Use this task to automatically switch collections over to an appropriate theme template, when every product in the collection has gone completely out of stock, and to switch them back when inventory arrives.

Runs when an inventory level is updated, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes collection template suffix when all products are out of stock, default collection template suffix, run every time an inventory level is updated, run daily, and run hourly.

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Send an event to Klaviyo when a fulfillment is delayed

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This task will watch for new order fulfillments, waiting a configurable number of days after each one. When the waiting period is over, if the fulfillment's status matches an item in the list, this task will send an event to Klaviyo, allowing you to use Klaviyo to contact the customer appropriately.

Runs 5 days after an order is fulfilled. Configuration includes test mode, qualifying fulfillment statuses, klaviyo api token, klaviyo event name, and days to wait before checking.

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Auto-add products to a custom collection when tagged

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Just as it says. Useful for collections that can't be configured for automatic products, but still should have some products pulled in automatically.

Runs when a product is created and when a product is updated. Configuration includes product tags and collection ids.

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Notify a team when a tagged product is ordered

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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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Send an email when a purchase is made from a certain collection

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This task will monitor incoming orders for any products that are included in the collection you choose. [Learn where to find the collection ID.](https://help.usemechanic.com/articles/2946120-how-do-i-find-an-id-for-a-product-collection-order-or-something-else)

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes required collection, email address, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-tag new orders with a value from the customer note

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This task watches incoming orders, and tags each order with a certain value from the customer's note, as identified by a configurable prefix. For example, if your customers have notes resembling "Username: xyz", configure this task with the prefix "Username: " to have it tag incoming orders as "xyz". Useful with apps like inkFrog, which add eBay usernames to customer notes, using a prefix.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes tag prefix in customer note.

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Email vendors when an order shipping address changes

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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 vendors and email addresses, email body, and email subject.

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Auto-capture order payment based on shipping method

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This task auto-captures payment if the customer has selected a certain shipping method. Useful for expedited order fulfillments.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes allowed shipping methods.

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Auto-add the draft order to a new order's attributes

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When a new order is created from a draft order, this task will automatically add the draft order ID and/or name to the custom attributes of the new order.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes order attribute name for storing the draft order and order attribute name for storing the draft order name.

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Auto-tag orders with chargeback or inquiry activity

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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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Email a report of customers who haven't ordered in X days

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Use this task to request or schedule an email digest of customers, having a certain tag, who haven't placed an order in a certain number of days.

Runs when a bulk operation finishes and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes required customer tag, include customers who have not placed an order in this many days, email subject prefix, email recipient, send email anyway if no customers are found, send email daily, and send email every monday.

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Auto-cancel orders with too many of a certain SKU

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Useful for enforcing order limits on the backend, use this task to ensure that too many of a certain product cannot be purchased. This task can be configured with multiple SKUs, too!

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes skus to watch for, quantity threshold for cancellation, send cancellation email to customer, attempt to refund or void payment in full, and reason for cancellation.

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Archive free orders on fulfillment

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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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Send an email when a product's price goes below its cost

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This task watches for product updates, and sends an email for each variant that's found to have a unit cost that's greater than the variant's for-sale price.

Runs when a product is updated. Configuration includes recipient email.

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Send an email when a specific product is shipped

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Use this task to notify customers about product-specific information, that should only be delivered when a successful fulfillment is registered for their purchased product.

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

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Auto-price products based on their compare-at prices

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Use this task when the pricing for your products can be automatically calculated by multiplying with compare-at prices.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes multiplier when calculating price, required product tag, run automatically for product updates, run daily, and test mode.

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Receive email alerts when inventory levels change

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Use this task to receive immediate email notifications whenever inventory/stock levels are adjusted, whether manually or as a result of a transfer or customer order.

Runs when an inventory level is updated and when an inventory level is connected. Configuration includes email recipient, email subject, and email body.

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Auto-tag orders by shipping address city

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This task automatically tags orders based on the city in the shipping address. Within this key you define the city and the tag on the order.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes city and tag to apply.

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Auto-tag orders that contain bundles

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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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Send an email to all customers

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Use this task to easily contact all of your customers at once, optionally filtering by customer tag. Important: This task can only be used in a transactional context - it cannot be used be used for marketing emails, or any type of message that would require an unsubscribe link.

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

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Auto-untag customers when a certain product is refunded

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Use this task to automatically remove a certain customer tag whenever a particular product is refunded, for that customer.

Runs when a refund is created. Configuration includes product ids and customer tag to remove.

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Download and email a file to a customer, when purchased

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This task watches for newly-paid orders. When an order contains a certain line item, this task retrieves a file from the URL of your choice, and emails that file to the customer. Because URLs are easier to share, this makes for a safer way to distribute downloadable materials.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes required line item title, email subject, email body, attachment filename, and attachment url.

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Send a follow-up email to customers after purchasing from a certain vendor

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This task will send a follow-up email to your customer after their order is paid, waiting for a configurable number of days before doing so.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes product vendor, email subject, email body, and number of days to wait before sending email.

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Auto-tag orders from recurring client IP addresses

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Use this task to regularly scan for repeat orders from a single IP address, by tagging any orders from an IP address that's placed more than a configurable threshold of orders in the last x days of order history.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes days of order history to scan, threshold order count per ip address, order tag to apply, run every 10 minutes, run hourly, and run daily.

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Delete draft orders

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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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Auto-tag products when their variants change

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Need to print price tags whenever a SKU is added? Or make a note of a new variant price? Use this task to tag products that need your attention, whenever a specific variant attribute changes.

Runs when a user triggers the task, when a product is created, and when a product is updated. Configuration includes variant attribute to watch for changes, tag product with the titles of each variant that has changed, product tag to add, and ignore products with any of these tags.

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Auto-tag fulfilled orders by carrier

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When an order is fulfilled, this task will scan the tracking information for each fulfillment. The name of each tracking company on file – i.e. the fulfillment carrier – will be used to look up a new order tag to apply, per the task's configuration.

Runs when an order is fulfilled. Configuration includes fulfillment carriers and order tags.

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Schedule product tags by date

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Use this task to schedule adding and/or removing tags for specific products, with support for scheduling by date, or by date and hour.

Runs every day at midnight and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes dates and tags to add, dates and tags to remove, product ids, use hour specificity, and test mode.

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Email the customer when tracking numbers are added to their order

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Use this task with services that add tracking numbers to fulfillments after fulfillments are created, to ensure that customers are notified when their tracking number is available.

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

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Backfill customer names from order addresses

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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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Add new customers to GetResponse

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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-tag orders by originating staff member

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Use this task to keep track of who created what order. This task watches for new orders, and tags each one with the name of the store staff member who created it (if that's how the order was created). This task can also be run manually, to scan and tag all orders already in your store.

Runs when an order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes include pos orders and tag prefix.

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Maintain a tag for orders processed today

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This task auto-tags today's new orders, as they're processed, and auto-untags them when the date changes. Optionally, choose to untag outside of a rolling 24-hour window, instead of untagging yesterday's orders at midnight.

Runs when an order is created and every day at midnight. Configuration includes use rolling 24 hour window and order tag.

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Untag orders when paid

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This task automatically removes specific order tag(s) when orders are paid.

Runs when an order is paid. Configuration includes order tags to remove.

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Temporarily enable tax-exempt status when a customer is tagged

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This task monitors customer tags, applying tax-exempt status when a certain tag is detected, and removing it (and the tag) after a certain amount of time. Useful when you need to regularly re-approve customers for tax exemption.

Runs when a customer is updated and when user/customers/expire_tax_exempt is triggered. Configuration includes tax exempt tag and days before removing tax exempt status.

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Auto-tag orders by app

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Some apps are responsible for placing orders. Use this task to tag orders, both incoming and historical, based on which app was responsible for placing them.

Runs when an order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes app titles and order tags and test mode.

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Demonstration: Web fonts in PDFs

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This task illustrates how to use a typeface from Google Fonts, embedding it in a generated PDF which is then emailed to the recipient of your choice.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes destination email address.

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Auto-pay orders from customers with a certain tag

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Use this task to immediately bump orders, from certain customers, to "paid". Useful if you have a standing payment arrangement for certain customers. Optionally, auto-remove this tag from customers after auto-paying their order. Useful for using customer tags as one-time triggers for auto-payment.

Runs when an order is created and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes required customer tag and remove tag from customer after processing their order.

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Send a welcome email to new customers, in their language

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This task demonstrates how to send emails that respect the customer's language preference, by matching their locale to a pre-written email translation.

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes default locale, email subject translations, and email body translations.

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Email someone when a certain variant is purchased

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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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Sync order timeline comments to the customer note

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This task scans all orders (optionally filtering by the query of your choice), and copies any new timeline comments to the customer's note. Useful for getting a snapshot of order activity when looking at the customer's record. Runs manually, hourly, and/or daily.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes only process customers matching this query, add new comments to the beginning, do not add removed comments back in, comment date format, automatically trim notes after a one day warning, send errors to slack, slack incoming webhook url, run daily, and run hourly.

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Auto-fulfill orders on a weekly schedule

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This task automatically fulfills orders on a weekly schedule, fulfilling orders with certain tags on certain days, at certain times, from certain locations.

Runs 11 hours after every Monday at midnight, 9 hours after every Tuesday at midnight, 12 hours after every Wednesday at midnight, and when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes notify customer on fulfillment, order tags and weekly fulfillment schedule, and order tags and location names.

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Automatically publish and unpublish on a monthly cycle

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Use this task to make a single product or page available for a limited window of time, on a monthly basis. Redirect your visitors to a specific page when that resource is unavailable.

Runs when a user triggers the task and every day at midnight. Configuration includes resource type, resource, day of the month to publish resource, day of the month to unpublish resource, and redirect url when resource is not published.

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Temporarily add an order note

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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 when user/orders/remove_note is triggered. Configuration includes hours to wait and order note to add.

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Auto-delete customers that are created without orders

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Useful for stores that are subjected to bot abuse, this task watches for newly-created customers, and deletes any that don't come with an associated order. Optionally, choose to ignore any customers that are created with a certain tag – helpful if you create customers yourself, via the Shopify admin.

Runs when a customer is created. Configuration includes ignore customers having this tag.

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Credit customers for sample orders

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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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Send an SMS via Nexmo when a product is created

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This task is a demonstration of sending text messages via Nexmo. In this task, we monitor for newly-created products, and we send a text message about the product to a phone number stored in that product's metafield.

Runs when a product is created. Configuration includes message content, phone number metafield namespace, phone number metafield key, nexmo api key, nexmo api secret, nexmo sms phone number, test mode, default country code, and minutes to wait before sending.

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Email vendors when an order is tagged

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Use this task to automatically keep vendors up to date as an order evolves. Configure this task with a list of known vendor names and their email addresses, and this task will email them whenever it notices the tag of your choice on the order.

Runs when an order is created and when an order is updated. Configuration includes order tag to watch for, vendors and email addresses, email subject, email body, and ignore orders older than this task.

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Get email alerts for FBA failures

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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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Auto-publish products tagged with the current day

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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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Delete variants having a metafield date that has passed

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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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Demonstration: Performing action runs in sequence

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This task demonstrates Mechanic's opt-in ability to perform a task's generated actions in a sequence, rather than in parallel. To try this task, enable the "Perform action runs in sequence" option, in the task's advanced settings.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes fail the sixth action.

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Partially auto-capture payments as orders are fulfilled

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Running when an order is updated, this task captures payment in proportion to the order value that has been fulfilled. For example, for an order with a subtotal of $10 and a total of $15 with shipping/taxes/discounts, this task will capture $7.50 when $5 of the order's value has been fulfilled.

Runs when an order is updated.

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Auto-tag customers by order app

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This task scans your incoming orders, tagging customers based on the Shopify app responsible for creating each order. Run this task manually to tag your customers based on their historical orders.

Runs when an order is created, when a user triggers the task, and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes app titles and customer tags and test mode.

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Manage annual memberships based on order minimums

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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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Redirect users based on input codes

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Use this task to prompt your users for a code, redirecting them to an appropriate destination based on what they enter. Some assembly required, with sample Javascript and HTML provided. :)

Runs . Configuration includes redirects and codes, require case sensitive codes, and invalid code message.

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Send a new-order email to someone based on a cart attribute

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This task sends a new-order email alert to somebody specific, based on the contents of a cart attribute. Useful for allowing customers to select their salesperson, alerting the appropriate salesperson when the order is placed.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes cart attribute name, cart attribute values and email addresses, email subject, email body, and only send for paid orders.

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Reset all inventory levels to a single level, in bulk

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A utility task, this one is useful for those one-off moments when your inventory needs a clean slate. Run this task manually to reset all of your inventory, across your entire store and for all locations, to the single level of your choice. No exceptions, no filters.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes reset all inventory items to this level and test mode.

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Demonstration: Fetch an external configuration file

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This task script demonstrates using the "http" action to retrieve external data, using a GET request. It also demonstrates saving the retrieved data to the Mechanic cache, where it can be used for future task runs.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when an action is performed. Configuration includes save data to cache.

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Send a staff notification email for each delivery

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Use this task to send a staff email, the moment Shopify registers a successful delivery.

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

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Track incoming donations in a store metafield

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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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Activate a discount when ISS passes overhead

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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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Send an email alert if a new collection has no orders after x days

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This task watches for newly-created collections, waits a configurable number of days, and then sends a staff email if no orders have been placed for products that are in the new collection.

Runs 2 days after a collection is created. Configuration includes email recipient, email subject, email body, and days to wait before checking.

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Schedule customer auto-tagging after a purchase

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Selling scheduled events? Using this task, you can automatically tag customers after the event has been completed. Simply tag a product with "autotag Authorized May 15", for example, and Mechanic will tag purchasers of that product with "Authorized", on May 15th.

Runs when an order is paid and when user/autotag/customer is triggered. Configuration includes autotag prefix.

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Auto-capture order payments based on Kount risk assessments

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An integration with Kount, this task allows you to immediately capture payments for orders that Kount has deemed to be of a certain risk level.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes number of minutes to wait before capturing, capture orders with a high risk level, capture orders with a medium risk level, and capture orders with a low risk level.

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Auto-associate products with a delivery profile, by product tag

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Use this task to automatically add products, as they're tagged, to a specific delivery profile. Untag products to remove them from the configured profile.

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

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Export all products to SFTP, as a Shopify-friendly CSV

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On a configurable schedule, this task generates a Shopify-friendly CSV of all your products, and uploads it to the SFTP destination of your choice. This is a convenient way to keep regular backups of your entire product catalog: simply import a CSV to restore your products to that point in time. ([Learn more about CSV imports and exports of Shopify products.](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/import-export/using-csv))

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes only export products matching this query, run every x hours, sftp host, sftp port, sftp user, sftp password, and sftp upload directory.

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Delete the oldest x products from a specific collection

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Either triggered manually, or configured to run daily, this task will look for the oldest products in the collection of your choice, and delete as many of them as you wish.

Runs when a user triggers the task. Configuration includes collection, number of products to delete at once, test mode, and run daily.

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Mark every new draft order as paid

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This task monitors for newly-created draft orders, and converts each one into a completed, fully-paid order. Nothing more, nothing less. :)

Runs when a draft order is created.

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Set a default tracking number for new fulfillments

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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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Unpublish products that fall below a rolling sales threshold

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This task scans the last x days of orders, and unpublishes any products that haven't met your specified sales threshold during that time period, from whichever sales channel you select. By default, this task adds up the line item subtotals for each product (quantity times price), but it can also count by total quantity sold. This task only looks at products that were published before the time period being examined.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes sales channel name, number of days back to look, minimum sales threshold for staying published, use total quantity instead of line item subtotals, test mode, and run daily.

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Delete product or product variant metafields in bulk

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Use this task to delete all of your product or product variant metafields, optionally filtering by namespace or by namespace and key. This task will then delete all metafields found. This task comes with a test mode – use this first to make sure you're deleting the right things.

Runs when a user triggers the task and when a bulk operation finishes. Configuration includes delete product metafields, delete product variant metafields, metafield namespace, metafield key, and test mode.

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Automatically cancel orders with certain risk indicators

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This task auto-cancels incoming orders when it finds all of a certain set of risk indicator messages. Risk messages must match exactly, so double-check your configuration!

Runs when an order is updated. Configuration includes required risk indicator messages, cancellation reason, ignore unpaid orders, attempt to void or refund payment for cancelled orders, email customer when cancelling, and add this order tag when cancelling.

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Raise the price of a product after every sale

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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 an email alert when an incoming Canadian order has an unsupported FSA

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Useful for Canadian stores with limited shipping zones, this task inspects the FSA (the first three characters of the postal code) for each order's shipping address. If an FSA is found that's not on a preconfigured list, this task sends an email to the recipients of your choice.

Runs when an order is created. Configuration includes supported fsa values, email recipients, email subject, and email body.

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