Can Emtor alert me in Slack or by email?
Through Shopify Flow: start a workflow with one of Emtor's triggers, and it sends the alert to Slack, by email or wherever your workflow says.
Emtor doesn't email you about the daily test yet. Instead, it can start your own workflows in Shopify Flow, Shopify's free automation app on the Basic, Grow, Advanced and Plus plans, and a workflow can post to Slack, send an email or do whatever else you build it to do. Emtor starts one only when the daily test finds something worth telling you, and sends nothing to a trigger no workflow of yours uses.
| Trigger | When it starts |
|---|---|
| Agent shopping problem found | Emtor's agent test found that AI shopping agents can no longer do something in your store that worked, and a second test confirmed it. |
| Agent shopping problem resolved | A problem Emtor reported through Agent shopping problem found is gone: a later agent test got through where it had stopped. |
| Store not checked | Emtor's daily agent test couldn't check your store 3 times in a row. The cause is on Shopify's side or Emtor's, not in your store. |
Set it up
- From your Shopify admin, go to Apps > Flow.
- Click Create workflow.
- Click Select a trigger, and pick one of Emtor's.
- Add what should happen, for example a Slack message or an email.
- Click Turn on workflow.
A workflow has one trigger, so for all three, make three workflows. Each trigger hands your workflow the details to put in a message or a condition: what went wrong, what to check, a link to the test's receipt and when it happened. Emtor's Settings page links to Shopify Flow.
When it starts, and when it doesn't
- Only for what worked before. A step that worked has to fail on the daily test and again on a second test, usually 2 minutes later. A problem your store had from its first test doesn't start anything: you saw it then.
- Never for Shopify's hiccups. When Shopify doesn't answer part of the test in time, the test can't tell anything about your store. If it can't check your store 3 times in a row, Store not checked starts instead.
- Not too often. Together, Agent shopping problem found and Store not checked start your workflows at most once every 24 hours, and 3 times in 7 days. A problem that comes up in between waits, and goes out only if it's still there.
- Not for a failure many stores share. When the same step fails in several stores at once, the cause is Shopify's or Emtor's, not yours, and Emtor holds the alert back.
- From when you turn a workflow on. It hears about problems Emtor finds after that, and Agent shopping problem resolved starts only for a problem a workflow of yours heard about.
- While the daily test is on. Turn it on with Run it every day on Emtor's Settings page. How the daily test works