Need Help Understanding Workflow API Limitations

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I am on the “Shopify” tier plan. I am planning on using the workflow system in a variety of ways. But the main way is to do something when a new product is added to the store.

(This is just an example) let’s say I have 300 different “check if X is true” things I want to happen if a product is added to a store. I think if I am reading this right, GraphQL has a standard limit of 100 points per second. There’s also a limit of 40 requests per minute. I am also reading there is a GraphQL limit of 1000 points per minute.

I am hoping someone can offer insight into this. What is the limit of “check if X is true” different conditions I can have when a new product is added? Thank you.

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For that kind of thing, you don’t need to worry about it in Flow. Flow has its own API key that doesn’t affect your store’s API limits. Flow also does optimization on our hydration queries.

A few things to avoid:

  • Creating many workflows using a high volume trigger (like Inventory qty changed)…Flow can’t optimize across workflows
  • Doing crazy loops in your conditions like products.collections.products.collections.title (this happens all the time)
  • Building workflows that result in an infinite loop (where you listen for an update and then update the same thing without any conditions to stop it from running forever)
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