send-an-email-when-a-products-price-goes-below-its-cost

Send an email when a product's price goes below its cost

Tags: Costs, Email, Metafields, Price, Products, Variants

This task watches for product and inventory item updates, and sends an email to the configured recipients for each variant that's found to have a unit cost that's greater than the variant's for-sale price.

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• Task JSON, for direct import: task.json
• Preview task code: script.liquid

Default options

{
  "recipient_emails__array_required": null
}

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Subscriptions

shopify/products/update
shopify/inventory_items/update+15.seconds

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Documentation

This task watches for product and inventory item updates, and sends an email to the configured recipients for each variant that's found to have a unit cost that's greater than the variant's for-sale price.

This task stores the known price and cost for each variant in a metafield, so subsequent updates to a product or inventory item will only fire this notification if those values change.

Note: the invetory item update subscription is purposely delayed by 15 seconds to prevent sending a duplicate email when both a variant's price and cost are updated at the same time.

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