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Automations overview

Seven order-driven automations on one page, grouped by what they do for the order.

Order updates
COD Confirmation

Confirm cash-on-delivery orders before you ship

Fulfillment

Shipping confirmation with tracking

Follow up
Ask for review New

Collect product reviews after delivery

Generate more sales
Abandoned Cart

Recover checkouts that were left behind

All seven automations live on one page, in three groups. A dimmed card is an automation that's switched off — the dimming is the state, not decoration.

An automation is a rule: when this happens to an order, send this WhatsApp message. There are seven, they all live on one page, and each ships switched off. Turning one on is a toggle and a save.

The seven

Order updates

Follow up

Generate more sales

How the page works

Every automation follows the same shape, so learning one teaches you all seven.

  • A master toggle at the top of the card. Everything below it dims when it's off — and a dimmed setting genuinely does nothing, which is why the dimming is worth trusting.
  • Settings in the left column: timing, options, and any discount or policy choices.
  • A live message preview in the right column, showing the actual message with your store name, your currency and your settings applied. Change a setting and the preview changes with it.
  • A save bar that appears the moment something differs from what's stored, with Save and Discard. Nothing takes effect until you save.
  • A trigger note stating in one line exactly what fires the message.

Activate all appears at the top of the page when automations are available but off. It switches on everything included in your plan, keeping each automation's saved settings.

Timing controls

Most automations have a delay, set with quick pills and a slider that stay in sync. The pills are the common answers; the slider is for anything in between.

Send recovery message after
15m30m1h2h4h12h24h
1 hour after abandonment

The label under the slider always spells out the resulting behaviour in words.

Follow-up reminders

Three automations can send a second message when the customer doesn't answer the first: COD Confirmation, Ask for review and Abandoned Cart. Each has its own delay, measured from the first message.

GrowthProReminders are available on Growth and above. On lower plans the card is shown locked and reads as off — the preview drops the second message too, so what you see is what will be sent.

A reminder is a whole extra message per customer, which is why it's gated: it's the fastest way to spend an allowance, and it's also what makes COD confirmation actually land.

What's included in your plan

AutomationFreeBasicGrowthPro
COD Confirmation
Fulfillment
Cancellation reasons
Ask for review
Upsell
Back in Stock
Abandoned Cart
Follow-up reminders

Free includes every automation with a small monthly allowance, so you can try each one before committing. Basic is deliberately COD-focused: the three order-update automations, with a larger allowance for them. See Plans & billing.

An automation your plan doesn't include is shown locked, with the plan that unlocks it named on the card. Downgrading never deletes settings — they're waiting if you come back.

Rules every automation obeys

A few behaviours apply across the board and aren't per-automation settings:

  • Quiet hours — nothing automated goes out between 02:00 and 11:00 in your store's timezone, with two deliberate exceptions.
  • One message per order per automation — Wapify won't send the same customer the same thing twice for the same order.
  • Allowance checks — every send is checked against your monthly allowance before it goes out.
  • Valid phone numbers only — orders without a usable WhatsApp number are skipped, and logged as such.

All of them are explained on Sending rules.

Sending one by hand

Automations are the default path, but you can also fire most of these messages on demand from Shopify's own Orders page — select orders, open the menu, and pick a Wapify action. A manual send skips the configured delay and ignores quiet hours, because you asked for it now. See Actions on the Orders page.