The "shopify" action

Anything that Shopify allows developers to do, Mechanic lets you automate. This means that you can create, update, or delete nearly anything in your Shopify account.

Here are some ideas:

• Tagging customers
• Creating a draft order for every customer who signs up
• Emailing your staff when an order is delivered

Mechanic has a few built-in tasks that take advantage of this action, but the possibilities are literally limitless. Work with a developer or hit that chat button in the corner to explore your options. :)

For developers

The "shopify" action has three styles of usage:

• Resourceful REST, which uses Shopify's REST admin API in a style reminiscent of ActiveResource
• Explicit REST, which uses Shopify's REST admin API with explicitly defined values for HTTP method, url, and body
• GraphQL, which uses Shopify's GraphQL admin API

Use resourceful REST if it's easy to do so – its job is to keep simple things simple. Use explicit REST if you need to get really specific about how your API request works. Use GraphQL when you need a feature not available in the REST API, or if it's otherwise more convenient/natural to do so.

Tip: if you're working with tags, always use GraphQL, to avoid accidentally overwriting tags added or removed by a simultaneously-running task. Learn more about tagging

Resourceful REST

Accepts an array of options, containing these elements in order:

1. Operation
   Must be one of "create" , "update" , or "delete" .
2. Resource specification
   When creating, use a single string (e.g. "customer" ).
   When updating or deleting, use an array (e.g. ["customer", 123] ).
3. An object of attributes
   Only applies to creating and updating.

A task which tags a customer upon ordering might look like this:

{% action "shopify" %}
  [
    "update",
    [
      "customer",
      {{ order.customer.id | json }}
    ],
    {
      "tags": {{ order.customer.tags | add_tag: "ordered" | json }}
    }
  ]
{% endaction %}

Explicit REST

Accepts an array of options, containing these elements in order:

1. Operation
   Must be one of "post" , "put" , or "delete" 
2. Request path
   Literally, the path you want to request from Shopify – the entire path. For example, /admin/orders.json .
3. An object of attributes
   Same as the resourceful options style. :)

A task which tags a customer upon ordering might look like this:

{% action "shopify" %}
  [
    "put",
    "/admin/customers/{{ order.customer.id }}.json",
    {
      "tags": {{ order.customer.tags | add_tag: "ordered" | json }}
    }
  ]
{% endaction %}

GraphQL

Accepts a valid GraphQL query.

A task which tags a customer upon ordering might look like this:

{% assign customer = shop.customers[order.customer.id] %}

{% action "shopify" %}
  mutation {
    tagsAdd(
      id: {{ customer.admin_graphql_api_id | json }}
      tags: "ordered"
    ) {
      userErrors {
        field
        message
      }
    }
  }
{% endaction %}