🧠Tutorials

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 task — build a complete task from scratch (start here if you're new)

• 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

• 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 Your first task to build a working task from scratch. Then browse the task library for tasks close to what you need, and use Practicing writing tasks for more exercises. The Core Concepts section of the docs covers the platform's execution model in detail.