How can I trigger a flow automatically when a product's price changes?

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So we have our products prices synced up to Channel Advisor, which is set up to auto-change the price. So sometimes the product automatically goes on sale.

What i’m trying to do is set up a flow that automatically puts a product into our “For Sale” collection if the price is less than the compared at price.

I have the flow set up and it works, however the trigger for it is “Product Status Updated” which only works if I manually go in and change the product status.

Does anyone know of a trigger that would automatically trigger the flow if the price changes. Or if there is a timing trigger to start the flow?

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Hi

I am looking for same solution if we do find please can you let me know as well

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Hey!
This would require a product updated trigger which we unfortunately don’t have at the moment. We are however working on a new trigger that’s based on scheduled times as well as a data fetch action. So in the near future you’ll be able to trigger a workflow at a predefined interval (daily at 9am for example) and have a data fetch for specific products which you could then apply tags to.

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Also very keen for this update. Any ETA or timeline?

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Hi CDavies,

The Schedule Trigger is available in a limited release for Plus merchants right now. If you’re a Plus merchant, you can reach out to an MSM to request access.

The feature will be released widely to all Flow merchants in Q1 2023.

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I’m trying to create same flow. May I ask what flow/conditions you used to get this working?

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We have the scheduled triggers on our account. However, (unless I am missing it), I do not see how to create a trigger based on price to add a tag. We are trying to add tags automatically for “finalsale” to products when the price/compare price <= 50%. suggestions?

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scheduled Trigger does not support it and still has some limitation

You can make the start condition Inventory change as a trigger

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Is there any solution to this yet?

I’m able to fetch the data, but I cannot filter out updated prices. It returns updated products. This includes updated inventory, so I can only filter out so much.

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If you are trying to get products that were updated in a certain time frame and then do something based on the prices, the workflow would look something like:

  • Every day
  • Get products that were updated in last day and have a certain price or maybe is_priced_reduced (see docs on the query)
  • For each product
    • Check condition (prices)
    • If true, Add product tag
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Is there an ETA for this trigger? I find it quite weird this is is not something that is available in flow.

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There is no Shopify event for “price updated”. You can watch the API change log (https://shopify.dev/changelog)…when such an event becomes available Flow be among the first apps to make use of it.