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Store history and recovery

What Shopify records when something in your store changes, and what you can and cannot get back. These guides cover the activity log, product and inventory history, exports, backups and undoing a change, including how to tell who made a change and what to do when the record does not say.

GuideTracking Store Changes
Store history and recovery

How to check the activity log in your Shopify admin

Find out how to access and read your Shopify admin's activity log.

Odera Joseph Echendu · · 6 min read
GuidePrice changes
Store history and recovery

What Shopify keeps when someone edits a price

A price change in Shopify leaves little trace to read back. What is kept, what the activity log shows, where variants come in, and what Actorly records.

Odera Joseph Echendu · · 5 min read
ComparedDifferent jobs
Store history and recovery

Shopify activity log: what it shows, its limits

Where Shopify's activity log is, why it stops at 250 results and cannot be exported, and what a searchable change history like Actorly adds.

Odera Joseph Echendu · · 6 min read
ProductHistory vs backup
Store history and recovery

Shopify backup vs change history: which you need

Not a copy of your store. Actorly keeps the old and new value of each change, from install. How that differs from a full backup, and which you need.

Odera Joseph Echendu · · 6 min read
GuideWho changed it
Store history and recovery

How to see who changed a product in Shopify

Shopify's activity log names the person, app or channel behind an action. How to open it, what it leaves out, and what Actorly adds for product changes.

Odera Joseph Echendu · · 6 min read
GuideDescription restore
Store history and recovery

Restore an overwritten Shopify description

Edited the wrong Shopify product description? How to find the old text, put it back by hand or with Actorly, and check that the new text took.

Odera Joseph Echendu · · 5 min read
GuideProduct history
Store history and recovery

Does Shopify keep a history of product changes?

Shopify keeps a few separate records, such as an activity log and stock adjustment history. What each one shows for a product, and where the gaps are.

Odera Joseph Echendu · · 6 min read
GuidePut it back
Store history and recovery

Can you undo a change in Shopify?

What can be undone in Shopify, what cannot, by situation, and how Actorly puts 15 named fields back one at a time after checking the value took.

Odera Joseph Echendu · · 8 min read
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