Mechanic
by Lightward
5.0
(129 reviews)
Best suited for stores using Airtable, Email and Flow, which it integrates with and from $16/mo.
355+ Premium workflow automations, integrations, and a complete enterprise-grade automation platform Mechanic is the enterprise-grade workflow automation platform for stores that need reliable, scalable automation. From small businesses to Plus-sized enterprises, Mechanic offers workflow automations that are built to scale. Automate your business with hundreds of battle-tested automations, or create custom automations using Mechanic as a development platform. Install as many automations as you want, no usage limits here! Mechanic automations are powered by Liquid, the language of Shopify. Mechanic is the enterprise-grade workflow automation platform for stores that need reliable, scalable automation. From small businesses to Plus-sized enterprises, Mechanic offers workflow automations that are built to scale. Automate your business with hundreds of battle-tested automations, or create custom automations using Mechanic as a development platform. Install as many automations as you want, no usage limits here! Mechanic automations are powered by Liquid, the language of Shopify. more Automate any business process with 355+ proven, reliable automations. Integrations: Email, Google (Sheets, Docs, Drive), Slack, Airtable, FTP & more Automate your business using Liquid the language you already know. Complete automation platform that replaces custom apps and infrastructure No developer? No problem. Tap into Mechanic’s community of automation experts.
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Bottom line
fulfilment cost and post-purchase experience
From $16/mo
4 tiers
67/100
Solid · from 128 reviews
What it does
Automate any business process with 355+ proven, reliable automations.
Integrations: Email, Google (Sheets, Docs, Drive), Slack, Airtable, FTP & more
Automate your business using Liquid the language you already know.
Complete automation platform that replaces custom apps and infrastructure
No developer? No problem. Tap into Mechanic’s community of automation experts.
What each step up actually buys you
This developer's plans are separated by features, not by how big your store is — so there is no volume that picks a tier for you. Here is what each one adds over the one below it.
Basic Shopify
$16/month
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Suggested price for "Basic Shopify" plan
No additional usage fees
Grow Shopify
$29/month
Suggested price for "Grow Shopify" plan
No added additional fees
Advanced Shopify
$99/month
Suggested price for "Advanced Shopify"
Shopify Plus
$199/month
Suggested price for Shopify Plus
Pricing
$16/month
$29/month
$99/month
$199/month
67
/ 100Solid
Scored on 128 merchant reviews we hold for Mechanic, across five checks. Every figure is computed from those reviews — expand any row to see the counts behind it.
Review history
2018–2026 · 128 reviews read| 2018 | 10 reviews |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 10 reviews |
| 2020 | 14 reviews |
| 2021 | 13 reviews |
| 2022 | 21 reviews |
| 2023 | 20 reviews |
| 2024 | 18 reviews |
| 2025 | 16 reviews |
| 2026 | 6 reviews |
What merchants say
5.0
22%
of reviews get an answer22%
had used it a year when they wroteRecent merchant reviews
The newest 8 of 129. Open one to read it in full, with the developer's reply where there is one.
Eccezionale. E' vero che Shopify Flow può fare cose utili ma Mechanic fornisce una granularità, flessibilità e ampiezza di operazioni di gran lunga superiore. Il punto forte di Mechanic è proprio il fatto che parla la stessa lingua di Shopify ovvero Liquid e si integra perfettamente nel suo ecosistema API. Di sicuro uno strumento immancabile per uno Shopify admin. Il team di Mechanic è sempre stato formidabile nel fornire aiuto e spunti e attraverso la loro community Slack c'è la possibilità di raggiungerli con rapidità, suggerire idee e scambiare consigli con altri utenti. Fortemente raccomandata.
Mechanic is AWESOME. Learning to create the right task for a job using Mechanic has opened up possibilities for my gigantic store with hundreds of thousands of items. I no longer have to listen to Shopify's native AI assistant explain the limitations of various Shopify admin tools and features. I can simply whip up a script on Mechanic to request exactly what information I want to see and what changes I want to make. When Shopify's tools leave me dry, I can always just tell Mechanic to solve it programmatically. You can turn a raw request like "check my whole store for items with a compare-at price between $0 and $15, and then add $5 to that price" into code that does exactly that, and you can customize reporting and etc on the success of that request. Lean on AI LLM's to help you build your tasks. It's worth it!
We’ve replaced several apps with just this one! I've used Mechanic for about a year now. Their huge library of pre-built tasks made it easy to get started auto-tagging customers or orders, scheduling product publishing, sending notifications for big orders. Setup was easy. When I needed something custom (a complex order hold and release workflow), I was easily able to learn enough Liquid to modify an existing task to achieve what I wanted. The documentation is good, and their Slack community is also super helpful. If you've ever thought "I wish Shopify could just do X automatically," this is probably your answer.
Mechanic was the answer to a process issue that has taken us months to solve. We were looking to send customer emails when we add a tag to their order or customer record. The key was the email needed to include order specific fields and customer metafields. We had tried multiple apps over several months and nothing could accomplish this. Then we came across Mechanic. Once it was downloaded and setup for email we were able implement our solution in less then an hour. So easy. This app is wonderful. It has a tremendous library of tasks that can be implemented. We are also using it to schedule sale price changes and reverting back to original price. Highly recommend this app.
Mechanic is our most important app for running our store - it handles all of our workflows on the backend, and helps us automate everything from sales, special events, sending orders to vendors, keeping track of preorder, backorders, inventory, and more. It's incredibly powerful and easy to learn for a developer. The documentation is also great, and there is a community on Slack that is ready to help if you run into anything complicated. The developer is also super responsive when you have questions. Overall, we couldn't be happier with Mechanic! This is the best app on Shopify hands down.
I love this app. I got it specifically to sync my blank t-shirt stock across my inventory so that I could offer a bigger range of products without fear of overselling. It has worked brilliantly for that. But also I have found many other uses, my favourite being getting it to check my entire inventory for a specific SKU and based on that add a new SKU in a new size, meaning I could add a new size of shirt to a couple of hundred items with just a few clicks. As well as monthly randomisation of the product order in some of my collections. Not the cheapest app, but the scope when you start to think about what it can do is really quite incredible.
Matt and his team are exceptional. My developers are in love with this app, and have installed it on all of our stores. If you constantly find yourself thinking 'I wish Shopify would do this..' or find any limitation in Shopify, this app solves it. No gimmicks, no 'it's in our roadmap' it just WORKS. 10/10
This is hands down the most incredible app in the app store. Over the years I've used it to automate fulfillment of customized products, support our customer service team with problematic order flagging, build sophisticated data workflows (now that metafields/objects exist), and generally solve so many problems when someone says to me "we need a new app that does X" or "can you source a software that does Y". If you're creative, if you're a systems-minded person...you can almost always leverage Mechanic to solve your complex automation problem on shopify
Mechanic FAQ
Answered from this app's own listing and its full review record.
Best suited for stores using Airtable, Email and Flow, which it integrates with and from $16/mo.
Paid plans start at $16/month, and run to $199/month across 4 published tiers. Prices are as listed on the Shopify App Store and can change — confirm before installing.
Mechanic's plans are separated by features rather than by store size — none of the tiers is capped on a volume you could state up front. Compare what each step adds over the one below it rather than trying to size yourself into a tier.
On our scorecard Mechanic rates 67 out of 100 — solid — read from 128 merchant reviews. The developer has published replies to 28 of 128 reviews. The score reflects what the review record shows, nothing more.
129 merchants have reviewed Mechanic, averaging 5.0 out of 5. We hold the review history from 2018 to 2026, which is what the year-by-year chart on this page is built from.
At a glance
5.0 / 5 · 129 reviews
5.00 from 10 reviews
10 (was 19)
28 of 128 reviews
2.5 months
From $16/month. Free trial available.
May 7, 2018
2018 – 2026
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