Shopify automation and back-office fixes

Your storefront is dialed in. Your back office is duct tape: someone tags orders by hand, copies stock counts between systems, and checks three dashboards every morning. I find the manual steps that cost you the most time and make them run on their own.

What I usually automate

• Order tagging and routing. Tags that drive fulfillment stages, segments and follow-ups, applied automatically. Where the four hours a week go.
• Fulfillment steps. Batching, pick lists, packing checks and status updates, often with Pickadoodl plus a little glue.
• Inventory syncs. Bin locations to ShipStation, stock between locations, and one-of-a-kind items that must never sell twice. How to stop overselling unique items.
• Alerts that matter. Low stock, stalled orders and failed syncs, sent to email or Slack instead of discovered by a customer.
• Recurring reports. The numbers you assemble by hand every week, built once and delivered automatically.

How it works

1. Map it. We walk through a normal day and list every manual, repeated step.
2. Rank it. Each one gets a rough cost in time and errors, and an effort to fix. Biggest wins first.
3. Build the simplest thing that works. Shopify Flow when it's enough, an existing app when one fits, custom code only when neither does.
4. Hand it over. Documented, monitored, and with someone to call if it ever breaks.

Questions

Do I need Shopify Plus for automation?

No. Shopify Flow is available on most plans, and a lot of useful automation runs through apps or small custom scripts on any plan.

Can't I just use Shopify Flow?

Often, yes, and I'll tell you when Flow is enough. It's less suited to multi-step logic, calls to outside systems, and jobs that need to retry reliably. That's where a small custom piece helps. See when Flow is the right answer.

What happens when Shopify changes something?

Anything I build is documented and monitored, and keeping it running can be part of a retainer, so an API change doesn't become your emergency.