Mechanic

Mechanic is our most important app for running our store - it handles all of our workflows on the backend, and helps us automate everything from sales, special events, sending orders to vendors, keeping track of preorder, backorders, inventory, and more. It's incredibly powerful and easy to learn for a developer. The documentation is also great, and there is a community on Slack that is ready to help if you run into anything complicated. The developer is also super responsive when you have questions. Overall, we couldn't be happier with Mechanic! This is the best app on Shopify hands down.

Mechanic has been an essential tool for our shop.

We’ve used it to build and manage systems that go beyond Shopify’s native functionality, including pre-ordering, a rewards points program, a referral system, and a raffle system tied to real customer activity.

What stands out most is how flexible and reliable it is. Once a task is set up, it just works, and it gives us confidence that important automations are running exactly as intended. The support team has also been responsive and helpful whenever we’ve had questions or needed approval for specific functionality.

Mechanic has played a huge role in helping us shape our shop into what we envisioned. Highly recommended.

Mechanic was the answer to a process issue that has taken us months to solve. We were looking to send customer emails when we add a tag to their order or customer record. The key was the email needed to include order specific fields and customer metafields. We had tried multiple apps over several months and nothing could accomplish this. Then we came across Mechanic. Once it was downloaded and setup for email we were able implement our solution in less then an hour. So easy.
This app is wonderful. It has a tremendous library of tasks that can be implemented. We are also using it to schedule sale price changes and reverting back to original price.
Highly recommend this app.

I love this app. I got it specifically to sync my blank t-shirt stock across my inventory so that I could offer a bigger range of products without fear of overselling. It has worked brilliantly for that. But also I have found many other uses, my favourite being getting it to check my entire inventory for a specific SKU and based on that add a new SKU in a new size, meaning I could add a new size of shirt to a couple of hundred items with just a few clicks. As well as monthly randomisation of the product order in some of my collections. Not the cheapest app, but the scope when you start to think about what it can do is really quite incredible.

Matt and his team are exceptional. My developers are in love with this app, and have installed it on all of our stores. If you constantly find yourself thinking 'I wish Shopify would do this..' or find any limitation in Shopify, this app solves it.

No gimmicks, no 'it's in our roadmap' it just WORKS.

10/10

I only had a limited time to test some of the features and then forgot about it. When I returned to check on it, after the trial period was ended, I was met with an incredibly aggressive and rude notification in the menu:

"This account is suspended, and Mechanic is no longer processing activity for this store."

It makes it sound like some massive policy violations took place and you're banned for life for testing their app!

This is hands down the most incredible app in the app store. Over the years I've used it to automate fulfillment of customized products, support our customer service team with problematic order flagging, build sophisticated data workflows (now that metafields/objects exist), and generally solve so many problems when someone says to me "we need a new app that does X" or "can you source a software that does Y". If you're creative, if you're a systems-minded person...you can almost always leverage Mechanic to solve your complex automation problem on shopify

Incredible app ! So useful !

Mechanic's automated jobs has saved us a ton of $$$ and time. We love the customer service and the product's job uptime is 99%... which is awesome.

Since we began using Mechanic over 4 years ago, it's become essential to our day to day operations. Here are just a few of the things we've been able to do with Mechanic, all of it requiring no staff supervision:
• Importing order data into our UPS shipping system
• Managing inventory and product synchronization between Shopify and our legacy systems
• Automating order printing and notifications
• Synchronizing data with Typesense for custom search functionality
• Creating custom checkout processes for our B2B customers
The sky is the limit in what you can do with this app, and developers in Mechanic's Slack space are continually coming up with and sharing novel solutions to customers' problems. If you're in need of any kind of automation or custom backend functionality for your store, we highly recommend giving Mechanic a go!