Running a successful Shopify store is an incredible achievement. But as you scale, the manual tasks that follow each sale can quickly become overwhelming. From notifying your team about a big order to updating inventory and tagging VIP customers, these small steps add up, creating friction and opportunities for error. What if you could automate this entire process, turning every event in your store into an instant, intelligent action?
With Triggers.do, you can. By leveraging the power of event-driven automation, you can connect Shopify's webhooks to powerful, agentic workflows. Forget manual processes. It's time to define your operations as simple, version-controlled code and let automation handle the rest.
Imagine a high-value order comes through your Shopify store. This is fantastic news, but it also kicks off a chain of manual tasks:
Each step is a potential point of failure. A notification gets missed, a tag is forgotten, and a valuable customer doesn't get the premium experience they deserve. This manual approach simply doesn’t scale.
Triggers.do transforms this chaotic scramble into a seamless, automated workflow. The core concept is simple: When an event happens, run a workflow. For developers, the real power lies in defining these rules as simple code.
Let's build a trigger that automatically launches a workflow for every Shopify order over $100.
With our SDK, you can define, test, and deploy triggers just like any other piece of your application's code. Here’s how you would create a trigger for high-value Shopify orders:
import { trigger } from '@do-sdk/triggers';
// Define a trigger that starts a workflow when a new
// high-value order is received from Shopify.
await trigger.create({
name: 'High-Value Shopify Order',
event: 'shopify.order.created',
filter: 'body.total_price > 100.00',
workflow: 'process-high-value-order',
});
Let's break down what's happening here:
The trigger is just the starting gun. The process-high-value-order workflow is the sophisticated agent that performs the work. This single workflow can be designed to:
A single event, filtered precisely, can kick off a complex, multi-system business process—all executed automatically and reliably within seconds of the order being placed.
This pattern of event-driven workflow automation can be applied to virtually any process in your e-commerce operation:
By treating your business process rules as code, you gain the ability to version, review, and reliably deploy your automation. Stop letting manual tasks dictate your team's bandwidth. With Triggers.do, you can build a resilient, scalable, and intelligent automation engine that grows with your business.
Ready to connect your business events to powerful workflows? Visit Triggers.do to learn more and start building today.
Q: What is a trigger in the context of agentic workflows?
A: In .do, a trigger is a defined event that automatically initiates one or more workflows. Think of it as the 'When this happens...' part of a 'When this happens, do that' rule, all managed as simple code.
Q: What kinds of events can I use as triggers?
A: You can trigger workflows from virtually any event source: incoming webhooks from services like Stripe or GitHub, messages from a queue, database changes, scheduled times (cron jobs), or custom events emitted from your own applications.
Q: Can I filter events so a workflow only runs under certain conditions?
A: Yes. Our platform allows you to apply conditional logic to incoming event payloads. You can write simple expressions to filter events, ensuring that workflows only run when specific criteria are met, such as an order value exceeding $100.
Q: Can one trigger start multiple workflows?
A: Absolutely. A single event can be configured to trigger multiple, parallel workflows. This enables you to orchestrate complex, branching business processes, like notifying sales, updating inventory, and starting fulfillment, all from one new order event.