🧠Tutorials

Step-by-step guides for building Mechanic tasks — from your first automation to advanced patterns.

Step-by-step guides for common Mechanic development patterns. These tutorials walk through real-world scenarios, from setting up webhooks to building scheduled data feeds.

Written tutorials

• Your first custom task — build a complete task from scratch

• Creating a Mechanic webhook — set up an endpoint that triggers Mechanic tasks from external services

• Practicing writing tasks — exercises for learning Mechanic's Liquid environment

• Triggering tasks from a contact form — connect a storefront form to a Mechanic task

• Creating scheduled CSV feeds — generate and deliver CSV files on a schedule

• Running bulk operation mutations — upload JSONL variables and run Shopify bulk mutations

• Fetching data from a shared Google sheet — pull spreadsheet data into a task

• Query analytics data with ShopifyQL — use ShopifyQL to access analytics in Mechanic

Video walkthroughs

For visual learners, our video walkthroughs cover common task patterns including auto-tagging, inventory sync, scheduled emails, and more.

Getting started

New to Mechanic? Start with the Getting started guide to install Mechanic and find your first task from the library. When you're ready to build your own, work through Your first custom task, then try Practicing writing tasks for more exercises. The Core Concepts section of the docs covers the platform's execution model in detail.