Shopify Flow is like a twin-turbo engine under the hood of your sleek, modern store—idling away on automated tasks mostly inaccessible to your store team. What if you could put that power directly at their fingertips, to unleash on tedious tasks with the click of a button? All right from their driver seats: order pages, product pages, etc. across Shopify Admin.
Using Admin Buttons to trigger Shopify Flow
Admin Buttons lets you add buttons and forms to almost any page in Admin so your team can trigger Flow right in the context of a specific task on a specific page.
For example: ever need to create a replacement order from an existing order? With Admin Buttons, you can simply click a customized "Create replacement order" button from the order page you're on. A form will pop up letting you duplicate the order to a new draft, customizing it with line discounts, specific tags, etc. Submitting the form sends the task to a workflow in Flow to take care of all the details behind the scenes: creating the draft order, applying the discounts, tagging the new and original order, even adding info to a Google Sheet if you like.
Buttons like this can be customized and added to detail pages and list pages across admin. Orders, products, customers; draft orders and abandoned checkouts; collections or discounts. Here's the full list of admin "targets" that Admin Buttons puts at your disposal.
Templates for the many common tasks make it straightforward to get going.
Pick an Admin Button template in Admin Buttons to get started. Save it and add it your desired page in admin.
Use a Flow Template to receive the Button tasks and handle the automation steps.
If you like, customize the button and workflow so it fits your specific needs.
Most Ecomm teams can get these going without support from a Shopify developer, especially if they've used Flow. (And we're here to help too, via chat or schedule a walkthrough!)
Get started with these common tasks
These will make the turbo-charger rumble a bit. With templates and articles to get you off the line quickly:
Apply a group of tags all at once to an order | Select from a list to pick which set of tags to add. |
Create a draft order from an existing order | And customize the new order with optional discounts, tags, notes, or custom properties. |
Apply discounts to all line items of a draft order | (Download Flow template. Article coming soon!) |
Tag a customer from an order page | (Download Flow template. Article coming soon!) |
Start a Slack thread for a specific order | (Download Flow template. Article coming soon!) |
Turn an abandoned checkout into a draft order | And customize the new order with optional discounts, tags, notes, or custom properties. (Article and templates coming soon!) |
Gather product feedback from an order page, save to a Sheet, and optionally send to a Slack channel | (Flow template and article coming soon!) |
Apply wholesale discounts to all products in a draft order | (Flow template and article coming soon!) |
Swap out wholesale pricing tags for a selected list of products | (Flow template and article coming soon!) |
Building Your Own Admin Buttons + Flow Automations
Once you’re comfortable with the pre-built templates, it’s time to build your own automations tailored to your business needs. Set up your own Admin Buttons for any admin page. Then pick up the tasks with custom workflows in Flow. By defining the exact actions that should occur when a button is pressed, you can ensure every automation aligns perfectly with your store’s processes.
Our templates in the Flow Template Library give you a lot of sample techniques to help you accomplish exactly what need to turbocharge your Shopify Admin.
Matching a button to a specific workflow
Using a Run Code action to parse your form data
Working with a list of products, orders, etc
Updating a draft order with a Send Admin API Request action
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