---
title: Store history and recovery: Shopify guides | Actorly
description: 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.
canonical: https://actorly.app/blog/category/store-history-and-recovery
---

[← Blog](https://actorly.app/blog)

# 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.

[All](https://actorly.app/blog)[Getting started](https://actorly.app/blog/category/getting-started)[Pricing, discounts and sales](https://actorly.app/blog/category/pricing-discounts-and-sales)[Apps and comparisons](https://actorly.app/blog/category/apps-and-comparisons)[Staff, security and privacy](https://actorly.app/blog/category/staff-security-and-privacy)

GuideTracking Store Changes

Store history and recovery

## [How to check the activity log in your Shopify admin](https://actorly.app/blog/how-to-check-the-shopify-store-activity-log)

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

Odera Joseph Echendu · Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min read

GuidePrice changes

Store history and recovery

## [What Shopify keeps when someone edits a price](https://actorly.app/blog/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 · Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min read

ComparedDifferent jobs

Store history and recovery

## [Shopify activity log: what it shows, its limits](https://actorly.app/blog/shopify-activity-log-vs-actorly)

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 · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read

ProductHistory vs backup

Store history and recovery

## [Shopify backup vs change history: which you need](https://actorly.app/blog/is-actorly-a-backup)

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 · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read

GuideWho changed it

Store history and recovery

## [How to see who changed a product in Shopify](https://actorly.app/blog/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 · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read

GuideDescription restore

Store history and recovery

## [Restore an overwritten Shopify description](https://actorly.app/blog/how-to-put-a-product-description-back-after-it-was-overwritten)

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 · Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min read

GuideProduct history

Store history and recovery

## [Does Shopify keep a history of product changes?](https://actorly.app/blog/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 · Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read

GuidePut it back

Store history and recovery

## [Can you undo a change in Shopify?](https://actorly.app/blog/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 · Oct 13, 2026 · 8 min read

[Subscribe to this category with RSS](https://actorly.app/blog/category/store-history-and-recovery/feed.xml)