Mechanic is a development platform, for better problem-solving.
Each business is unique. Apps can fill in the gaps, when Shopify itself falls short.
Mechanic is here for all those situations where an app doesn't exist, when developing an app would be too expensive, or (honestly) when you'd like to replace many of your existing apps with just one.
You're a developer?
Us too. :) We made Mechanic because too many merchant problems required spinning up an entire app. And scaling it. And monitoring it. And keeping the code healthy.
So, we made a platform. Mechanic abstracts away everything that isn't the problem itself.
Now, any developer can (a) write some serverless code in Liquid, (b) allow merchants to configure it, using a UI that we automatically generate from your code, and (c) trust us to keep it running.
Everything gets better. It's also just more fun this way.
Developer features:
Rich documentation, hundreds of open-source tasks (everything in our library), and a YouTube channel of task development videos
All of standard Liquid, with extensions for building complex objects, and a bunch of useful filters
Receiving email, sending transactional email
Reading from and writing to the Shopify API, via both REST and GraphQL
Webhooks, for receiving data and triggering tasks; proper CORS support allows calling these from online storefronts
Sending requests to external HTTP APIs
Uploading files to external FTP/SFTP servers
Caching data locally, within Mechanic, to be used during future task runs
Generating PDFs from HTML
Generating ZIP archives of PDF or text (e.g. CSV) files, to be uploaded or emailed
You're a merchant?
Excellent. :) Our public library contains more than 200 tasks that you can plug into your store immediately. Feel free to experiment – your flat monthly subscription includes unlimited tasks, which you may run an unlimited number of times.
And when you need something new, we'll connect you with a developer from the Mechanic community. Collectively, we're good at solving problems.
You can get started immediately with these tasks, and hundreds more, from our task library:
Cancel and close unpaid orders after x hours/days
Email customers when tagged
Ask for reviews a week after order fulfillment
Send a customer signup email
Auto-tag customers when they purchase a matching product
Hide out-of-stock products
Auto-tag new customers
Email customer when their order is paid
Auto-invite customers after an order
Auto-tag orders by product collections
Auto-fulfill items that don't require shipping
Much has been done; there is much to do.
Find out more inside the app, or by clicking "Developer website" or "FAQs" on the right. Email us with questions. We're here for you. :)