Monitor Your Shopify Flows: Get Instant Error Alerts

Automations are built to save time and prevent manual errors, but when they silently fail, the impact can be severe: missed order fulfillments, unnotified customers, or incorrect inventory counts. Discovering these issues hours or days later means lost revenue, unhappy customers, and frantic, expensive manual clean-up.

This Flow ensures you're never in the dark about critical automation failures. By leveraging the 'Workflow error occurred' trigger, it instantly detects issues like API timeouts or data misconfigurations, then uses the 'Send Shopify alert for errors' action to notify you directly in your admin, allowing for swift resolution.

• Monitoring mission-critical flows, like order fulfillment or inventory updates.
• When third-party app integrations within your flows are prone to occasional glitches.
• Ensuring customer communication flows (e.g., post-purchase emails) are always firing correctly.

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   Start a new Flow with the 'Workflow error occurred' trigger.

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   Add an action: 'Send Shopify alert for errors.'

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   Activate and name your workflow for easy identification.

What types of workflow errors does this automation detect?

This Flow primarily catches run-time errors like API timeouts, invalid data formats, failed app connections, or other execution problems that prevent a workflow step from completing successfully.

How often will I receive an alert for the same error?

The 'Workflow error occurred' trigger fires once per unique workflow version experiencing an error within a 30-day period, preventing alert spam for persistent issues.

Where will the Shopify alert appear in my admin?

These alerts will display in your Shopify admin's activity feed and also appear as a notification icon, making them easy to spot alongside other important updates.

Can I route these error alerts to Slack or email instead?

While the 'Send Shopify alert for errors' action is specific to your admin, you can easily add additional actions to your Flow, such as 'Send Slack message' or 'Send internal email', to notify other channels simultaneously.

• Shopify Flow

  Native Shopify automation builder.

• Slack

  Fast internal alerts for ops and support teams.

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