Generic Shopify

Generic Shopify works on any store built on Shopify. You tell the task which store, and it works out the rest.

Store options

Option	What to enter
Store base URL	The store’s home page, such as https://your-shopify-store.com.
Storefront password	Only for stores locked behind a password page. Leave it empty otherwise.
Payment	Card pays with the profile’s card. Manual stops at the store’s payment page so you can pay yourself.
Sizes	The sizes to buy. Leave it on Any size to take whatever’s in stock.

With Manual payment, the task’s status turns green and reads “Reserved: click to finish payment”. Click it to finish paying.

Modes

Mode	What it does
Fast	Checks out as soon as the product is in stock.
Safe	The same as Fast, but also watches the store’s checkpoint page every few seconds and solves it when it goes live.
Fast Preload	Prepares the checkout before the product is in stock, so the purchase goes through quicker when it lands.
Safe Preload	Preload with the checkpoint watch from Safe.

Use Safe when the store is known to switch on its checkpoint for big releases.

Preload needs a product link

Preload modes need a product link that contains /products/, and only work on stores using Shopify’s newer one-page checkout. On an older store the task stops and tells you to use Fast or Safe. Manual payment needs the newer checkout too.

Keywords

Instead of a link, a Shopify task can find the product by words in its title. Use it when you know a product is coming but not its link.

1. In the New task window, switch the product field to Keyword.

2. Type a query, or click Builder… to put one together.

3. The task searches the store’s catalogue and buys the first match.

Writing a query

You write	It matches
"funky" AND "tshirt"	Titles with both words
"funky" OR "retro"	Titles with either word
"tshirt" NOT "kids"	Titles with tshirt but not kids
"tshirt" -kids	The same as NOT kids
kid*	kid, kids, kidswear and so on
"black hoodie"	The exact phrase

The Keyword builder does the same with buttons. Choose Match all (AND) or Match any (OR), add words to Include and Exclude, and check Preview before you click Use this query.

While it searches, the status reads “Searching catalog” followed by your query. In Fast and Safe, the task keeps searching at your monitor delay until something matches. In the Preload modes it searches the whole catalogue once and stops with “Can’t preload: not found” if nothing matches.