r/AutomateShopify

I keep seeing Shopify tracking setups where something quietly breaks , duplicate purchases, missing conversions, wrong values, old tags firing alongside native integrations, etc.

I’m wondering if a tool that could inspect the GTM/tracking setup, spot likely conflicts and point to the root cause would actually be useful.

Would you use something like that? And what GTM/Shopify issue would you want it to catch first?

Not selling anything, just trying to figure out if this is worth building.

I see a lot of posts here and in other subreddits from people frustrated that their store isn't converting . I was in the same spot not too long ago, so i want to share what actually worked for me no fluff, just what changed.

● Your store has to convert BEFORE you run ads Most people throw money at Meta ads with a store that isn't ready. Fix your product page first clear headline, strong images social proof ( reveiws) and one obvious CTA. If your store cant convert warm traffic, cold ad traffic will just bleed your budget

● Meta ads stop guessing , start testing i ran a simple CBO (Campaign Budget Optimization) campaign with 3-4 ad sets targeting different interest groups, each with 2-3 creative variations. Let Meta's algorithm figure out what works. Dont touch it for 2-3 days after launch.

● Creative is everything right now .static images are dead, short form creatives dramatically improved my CTR. If you dont have video, use carousel ads with strong lifestyle images.

● Retargeting is where the money is . I ran a separate campaign retargeting campaign for people who visited the product page but didnt buy. This alone recovered a significant chunk of otherwise lost sales.

● pricing physcology definitely matters. Tweaked it to .99 at the end and added a "limited offer" bundle. Made my AOV up by atleast 18% and made ad spend more efficient.

●Automate repetitive tasks as soon as you can. As my order volume increased, I realized I was spending too much time handling things that could be automated. order edits and support tickets were one of the biggest time sinks. For transparency, the tool I currently use for order edits is Clickpost Order Editing, although there are several alternatives available.

THE BIGGEST MINDSET SHIFT?? stop optimizing for clicks optimize for purchase . Set your Meta campaign Objective to purchase conversions from day one, even if it takes a few days to get Data.

Happy to answer any questions. What is the biggest thing you are currently struggling with?

Hey guys, I’m looking into operational bottlenecks for shopify catalog management.

When you receive a massive batch of new product photos (either from suppliers or from a quick in-house shoot) that all have slightly different backgrounds or bad lighting, what does your actual workflow look like to get them standardized with pure white/transparent backgrounds for the store?

Are you paying your in-house designers to clip them manually, outsourcing to Fiverr, or using automated API tools? If you use automation, how do you deal with the tools compressing the images or messing up the quality? Trying to figure out the most cost-effective way to handle this at scale without losing hours of labor.

i've been free store review to find out whether the problems i assumed existed actually do. 14 stores in they do, and they're all the same shape.

not performance problems configuration problems. products live but in no collection. a shipping zone missing a country so checkout silently stops. flows switched on with a filter excluding the whole list. abandoned cart emails carrying a discount code that expired months ago.

what they have in common is that no single tool can see them.

shopify is right that the product is active. klaviyo is right that the flow is live. meta is right that the ad converted, even when the order got cancelled two days later. every system passes its own self check and the failure sits in the seam between them.

the deeper reason they survive: successful orders write records, failed checkouts write nothing. so your data is structurally biased toward everything looking fine, you only ever see what survived. 

then revenue goes soft, nothing explains why, and the only lever a dashboard exposes is spend more. so people raise budgets and push traffic into a store that can't take the order.

happy to do this free on anyone's store here, read only, written up, no call, nothing to sign. 

i want the sample more than the money right now. comment or dm.

genuinely curious though: does anyone here actually have a routine for checking config, or is it all found by accident when a customer complains? that's been true on every store so far and i want to know if it's universal.

Before i got obsessed with Shopify flow, running my store felt like a full time job:

Before:

- woke up, manually checked overnight orders for anything weird

- spreadsheet to track high risk orders. Updated by hand

- Didn't even know which customers were repeat buyers until i dug into analytics

This was after doing $100k+ in revenue. I was busier than ever and kind of miserable.

After the flow was setup properly:

- high risk orders flagged and paused automatically before fulfillment

- Repeat customers tagged in real time, VIP discount triggered for them automatically

- My morning routine went from 45 min of firefighting to 5min Review

Not gonna lie, it took me a month to learn and set it up initially. But i have never gone back. Building a second store alongside this now and flow is the first thing im setting up before i even run any ads. Its Easy and beginner friendly.

Would love to know what you guys are automating using flow and what you wish Flow couldnt do yet?

What’s your preferred notification Channel for internal operations team communications? For example, how do you alert team members about a potential stock out situation or a delay situation or an exception or a SLA breach in order to escalate for action?

Email, SMS, Slack, Teams, or apps like Pushover, PagerDuty, etc.

We run a small pet supplies website. Our biggest usecase is sending order updates to customers, collect reviews and recover abandoned cart.
AiSensy is doing a bad job for all of these. Please suggest alternatives that are not too costly.

Frustations with AiSensy:

1. The customer msging design is very limiting. eg. - You can't simply send an order confirmed msg. to COD customers. You have to send a multi-choice msg. asking customers if they want to 1) Confirm, or 2) Cancel the order. This is a conversion killer for us.
2. The interface is from early 2010s. It takes a while to learn how to navigate. Like Campaign section is tucked in a different corner while campaign msging. section (where you draft msgs. for Mate approval) is some 15 clicks away at another corner.
3. Abandoned cart msg. delivery is always between 45-55%.
   I can go on an on :(

EDIT: Need something that integrates well with Shopify without breaking the bank. Our msg. Volumes are below 1000 per month

I genuinely doNt know if this is a good problem to have anymore.

Sales are growing but every time the store grows, I feel like I am just adding more things to manually deal with.

Customer emails, Order issues, Refunds ,Inventory, Supplier messages

And somehow I'm still the person everything eventually comes back to.

The weird part is that from the outside, the business looks like it is doing great.

But internally I'm constantly thinking:

"Wtf happens if I disappear for a week?"

I don't want to build a business where I have to be online every day just to keep things moving.

What are the possible automations and changes i must bring in at this point? Want to know if anyone else has been on the same page as me and what did they do differently

What automations do you use for your shop? Especially if you're operating at scale.

Just curious. TIA for your inputs.

Hey everyone! I'm u/Prestigious_Yard3642, one of the moderators of r/AutomateShopify.

Welcome to the community! 👋

This is a place for Shopify store owners, developers, and operators to share ideas, ask questions, and learn how to use automation, apps, Shopify Flow, integrations, and AI to build better processes around their stores.

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Feel free to post anything related to Shopify automation, including:

• Questions about automating repetitive tasks
• Shopify Flow workflows and ideas
• Useful apps and integrations
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• Troubleshooting automation issues
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What are you currently trying to automate in your Shopify store?

Hello, I've been doing e-commerce for a short while and I have a question for users. Whether it's Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, or eBay; what are the gaps and unresolved issues you think still exist? What are the processes that exhaust and challenge you the most, and how often and where do you use artificial intelligence in your store management? Please share your experiences with me.

I’ve been working on a side project called Taskra for the last few months and I’ve finally got it to the point where I’m comfortable putting it in front of more people.
The idea came from seeing how repetitive ecommerce customer support can get.

“Where’s my order?”
“Do you ship internationally?”
“Can I return this?”
“Which product should I buy?”

Most of these questions don’t really need someone manually typing a response every time, especially when the answers already exist somewhere in the store.
So I built Taskra, an AI customer support agent specifically for Shopify stores.

It connects to your store and uses your products, policies and other business information to answer customers in context. It can also understand order related questions, so instead of giving generic chatbot responses it can actually help with things customers are asking about.

The main things I wanted it to do were:
• Answer repetitive support questions automatically
• Understand the store’s products and policies
• Help customers with order related questions
• Capture leads when someone shows buying intent
• Keep conversations in one inbox so a human can jump in when needed
• Reduce the amount of time store owners spend answering the same questions every day

One thing I really didn’t want was another annoying chatbot that just throws help centre articles at people. The goal is for it to feel much closer to having an extra support person on the store.

For a small store, I think the biggest benefit is simply getting time back. You might not be ready to hire someone purely for customer support, but you also don’t want customers waiting hours for answers while you’re doing everything else.

For larger stores, I think it becomes more about filtering out the repetitive conversations so the support team can focus on the customers who actually need a person.

It’s now live and I’m at the stage where feedback is probably more valuable to me than anything else.
If you run a Shopify store, I’d genuinely be interested to know what your biggest customer support headache is and whether something like this would actually be useful to you.

Happy to answer questions about the build as well.

Hello, I want an automation application that sends license keys, accounts, links (anything that falls under "text") along with links such as activation instructions, download page, etc.

I want it for a monthly price of less than $10, and other features aren't very important to me. What matters to me is what I mentioned previously, in addition to the absence of the app logo in the email template.

In short, it sends product information along with links to the instruction page and download page; there is no brand logo in the template.

Thank you in advance.