Product change history

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Hello,

I recently discovered some products that are being updated without my knowledge. Is there a way to check the date and time of their updates? I gave a collaboration code to a third-party company to help set up shipping (they are legit), but I need to see if they did the updating to some product as a test or other people from our company are doing it.

I tried in the story activity log, but there I only see changes made to theme and storefront password, etc.

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Hi, here is the activity log for the entire store: https://admin.shopify.com/store/YOUR-STORE/settings/general/activity

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Hello @LEXIMEquestrian

Unfortunately, Shopify’s activity log doesn’t capture product updates. However, you can check for a scheduled publishing date if the product update involves making it visible on your store. Go to the specific product in your Shopify admin and look for the “Publishing” section. If a scheduled publishing date exists, it will be displayed there.

You can also check the shopify app like https://apps.shopify.com/activity-logs in case if that works.

Or you can hire any Shopify Expert for some admin action log development.

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Hi @LEXIMEquestrian ,

You’re right that the default Shopify store log doesn’t show the full history of product and variant changes. However, you can check the inventory adjustment history for each product to see some of the changes.

To do this:

  • Go to the Products section of your Shopify admin
  • Select the specific product you want to check
  • Click on the Variants tab (if the product has variants)
  • In the Inventory section, click on “Adjustment history”

This will show you a log of all the times the inventory quantity has been adjusted for that variant
This can help you track when new variants have been added, quantities have changed, etc.

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If you need more robust product change tracking, there are also some great Shopify apps that can provide more detailed logs and reporting. I hope this helps provide a solution for your needs! Let me know if you have any other questions.

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I use View Cell History and View Row History by right-clicking the cell/row in the worksheet.

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That page won’t load for me - is there an updated link that works?

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any advice on what app to use to find more robust inventory history that goes back more than 90 days and can give a report (this is what I need) on all products increased inventory counts for X period?

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It works for me. Please change ‘YOUR-STORE’ in the link above.

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There’s actually kind of a hidden way to see some product history. If you open a product in the admin and just add /events.json at the end of the URL, you’ll see a log.

Like this:
https://admin.shopify.com/store/{your-store-link}/products/9954787197241/events.json

It’s not great tho, it only shows stuff like when a product was published or unpublished, and only a couple edits.

Other option (shameless plug here :sweat_smile:) is my app Loggr Product History & Revert. That one actually tracks every change and you can roll things back.

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My goodness, that Activity Log is terrible. Whomever made it never actually used it to search for anything.