Mechanic is a development and ecommerce automation platform for Shopify. :)
This task watches for product updates, and sends an email (to the recipient of your choice) for each variant that's found to have a unit cost that's greater than the variant's for-sale price.
Runs Occurs whenever a product is updated, or whenever a product is ordered, or whenever a variant is added, removed, or updated. Configuration includes recipient email.
This task watches for product updates, and sends an email (to the recipient of your choice) for each variant that's found to have a unit cost that's greater than the variant's for-sale price.
If a product is updated that the task hasn't had a chance to previously observe, emails will be sent immediately for any variants that have a unit cost greater than their price.
Mechanic is designed to benefit everybody: merchants, customers, developers, agencies, Shopifolks, everybody.
That’s why we make it easy to configure automation without code, why we make it easy to tweak the underlying code once tasks are installed, and why we publish it all here for everyone to learn from.
(By the way, have you seen our documentation? Have you joined the Slack community?)
shopify/products/update
{% capture query %} query { product(id: {{ product.admin_graphql_api_id | json }}) { variants(first: 250) { edges { node { id legacyResourceId sku title price inventoryItem { unitCost { amount } } known_cost_and_price: metafield( namespace: "mechanic" key: "known_cost_and_price" ) { id value } } } } } } {% endcapture %} {% assign result = query | shopify %} {% if event.preview %} {% capture result_json %} { "data": { "product": { "variants": { "edges": [ { "node": { "id": "gid://shopify/ProductVariant/1234567890", "legacyResourceId": "1234567890", "sku": "ABC123", "title": "Default Title", "price": "5.00", "inventoryItem": { "unitCost": { "amount": "10.0" } } } } ] } } } } {% endcapture %} {% assign result = result_json | parse_json %} {% endif %} {% assign product = result.data.product %} {% assign variants = product.variants.edges | map: "node" %} {% assign metafields = array %} {% for variant in variants %} {% assign unit_cost = variant.inventoryItem.unitCost.amount | times: 1 %} {% assign price = variant.price | times: 1 %} {% assign known_cost_and_price = variant.known_cost_and_price.value | default: "{}" | parse_json %} {% assign current_cost_and_price = hash %} {% assign current_cost_and_price["cost"] = unit_cost %} {% assign current_cost_and_price["price"] = price %} {% log variant_id: variant.id, known_cost_and_price: known_cost_and_price, current_cost_and_price: current_cost_and_price %} {% if price >= unit_cost and variant.known_cost_and_price != blank %} {% action "shopify" %} mutation { metafieldDelete( input: { id: {{ variant.known_cost_and_price.id | json }} } ) { userErrors { field message } } } {% endaction %} {% elsif price < unit_cost and known_cost_and_price != current_cost_and_price %} {% assign variant_name = variant.sku | default: variant.title %} {% if variant_name == "Default Title" %} {% assign variant_name = product.title %} {% endif %} {% capture email_subject %} {{ variant_name }} was priced lower than its cost {% endcapture %} {% capture email_body %} Hello, {{ variant_name }} was found to have a unit cost of {{ unit_cost | currency }}, while its price is set to {{ price | currency }}. <a href="https://{{ shop.myshopify_domain }}/admin/products/{{ product.id }}/variants/{{ variant.legacyResourceId }}">Manage this in Shopify</a> Thanks, Mechanic, for {{ shop.name }} {% endcapture %} {% action "email" %} { "to": {{ options.recipient_email__email_required | json }}, "subject": {{ email_subject | strip | json }}, "body": {{ email_body | unindent | strip | newline_to_br | json }}, "reply_to": {{ shop.customer_email | json }}, "from_display_name": {{ shop.name | json }} } {% endaction %} {% capture metafield %} { ownerId: {{ variant.id | json }} namespace: "mechanic" key: "known_cost_and_price" type: "json" value: {{ current_cost_and_price | json | json }} } {% endcapture %} {% assign metafields = metafields | push: metafield %} {% endif %} {% endfor %} {% assign groups_of_metafields = metafields | in_groups_of: 25, fill_with: false %} {% for group_of_metafields in groups_of_metafields %} {% action "shopify" %} mutation { metafieldsSet( metafields: [ {{ group_of_metafields | join: newline }} ] ) { metafields { id namespace key type value owner { ... on ProductVariant { id } } } userErrors { code field message } } } {% endaction %} {% endfor %}