Ready-made Shopify actions

Ready-made actions change your store through a simple form: no GraphQL, no JSON. Each one asks for the resource and a few fields, and tells you which permission it needs.

Add one

1. Press + and, in Add a step, select Shopify. The window Add a Shopify action opens, with the ready-made actions at the top. They carry the badge Simple form.
2. Or type what you want to do into Search steps, for example add tags or cancel.
3. Fill in the form. Every text field takes variables.

The actions

Tags and metafields

Action	What it does
Add product tags, Add order tags, Add customer tags	Adds one or more tags. Tags it already has are left alone
Remove product tags, Remove order tags, Remove customer tags	Removes tags. Tags it does not have are ignored
Set product metafield, Set order metafield, Set customer metafield	Creates or overwrites one metafield. For a variant, pass the variant's id to Set product metafield
Delete product metafield, Delete order metafield, Delete customer metafield	Deletes one metafield. Nothing happens when it does not exist

Products and inventory

Action	What it does
Set product status	Sets a product to active, draft or archived
Update product details	Changes title, vendor, product type or description. Fields left empty stay as they are
Publish product to a sales channel, Unpublish product from a sales channel	Makes a product available on one sales channel, or removes it
Update variant price	Sets the price and, optionally, the compare-at price of one variant
Adjust inventory quantity	Adds to or subtracts from the available quantity of an item at a location
Set inventory quantity	Sets the available quantity to an exact number
Add product to a collection, Remove product from a collection	For manual collections. Shopify processes this in the background

Orders and fulfillment

Action	What it does
Update order note	Replaces the note, or adds a line to the existing one
Cancel order	Cancels an order, optionally refunding the payment and restocking the items. This cannot be undone
Mark order as paid	Records the outstanding amount as paid
Archive order, Unarchive order	Closes or reopens an order
Complete draft order	Turns a draft order into an order
Send draft order invoice	Emails the invoice of a draft order to its customer
Hold fulfillment order, Release fulfillment order hold	Puts a fulfillment order on hold, or releases every hold on it

Customers and discounts

Action	What it does
Update customer note	Replaces the note, or adds a line
Send customer account invite	Emails the invitation to activate the account. Only for stores with classic customer accounts
Create discount code	Creates a code for a percentage or a fixed amount off the whole order. Use the code in a later step, for example in an email

The messages to Slack, Discord and Teams and Post JSON to a URL are ready-made actions too. See Slack, Discord and Teams messages and HTTP request.

The id field

Every action asks which resource to change: Product id, Order id, Customer id and so on. A GID or a plain numeric id both work. For the resource of the event, pick:

{{ event.payload.admin_graphql_api_id }}

For a resource a query step found, pick its id from that step, for example steps.variant.output.productVariants.nodes[0].id.

Tags field

Tags takes one tag, or several separated by commas. A variable works too: a list from an earlier step, or a value of the event such as the vendor.

What happens when it runs

• In a preview, an action changes nothing. It lists the inputs it would have run with.
• Shopify can reject a change, for example a price that is not a number. The step then fails with Shopify's message, and the run ends as Failed.
• An action that could not be started for a temporary reason is tried again automatically. An action that ran and failed is not repeated. See Automatic retries.
• Later steps read what the action returned as steps.<id>.output. The variable picker lists the fields, for example the code of Create discount code.
• A change your workflow makes comes back from Shopify as an event. Loop protection recognises that echo. See Loop protection.

When there is no ready-made action

The same window lists every mutation of the Shopify Admin API below the ready-made actions. See Every Shopify mutation and query.