Disable Inventory Tracking for Tagged Products Every Day

This step runs the workflow at a time and frequency you define — daily, weekly, or on a custom cron schedule. You need to configure when the workflow should run by selecting from the available schedule options (for example, every day at midnight or every Sunday at 6am). The schedule determines how often MESA checks your catalog for tagged products and disables tracking on their variants. Aligning the run time with your store operations — such as before the business day starts — keeps inventory settings consistently clean without any manual effort.

MESA fetches up to 2,000 products from your Shopify store in a single request. This step runs automatically and requires no configuration. The full product list, including each product's tags and variant details, is passed forward for filtering. If your catalog exceeds 2,000 products, only the first 2,000 will be processed per run — in most cases this covers the full catalog.

The loop iterates through every product retrieved in Step 2 and filters to only those whose tags include your specified value. You need to configure one value: the product tag MESA should look for (for example, no-track or digital). Any product with this tag will have all of its variants processed in Steps 4–7. Choose a tag that is consistently applied to every product you want to exempt from inventory tracking.

This loop runs inside the first loop and iterates over every variant of each matching product. No configuration is needed — MESA automatically uses the variant list from the current product in the outer loop. Each variant is processed individually in Steps 5–7, so a product with 10 variants will trigger 10 passes through the remaining steps. This ensures complete coverage across all SKUs under a tagged product.

MESA fetches the inventory item for the current variant using its inventory item ID. The key piece of data retrieved here is the tracked field, which indicates whether Shopify is currently monitoring stock levels for this variant. This value is passed to the Filter step in Step 6 to determine whether any action needs to be taken. No configuration is required.

This filter checks whether the variant's tracked field (retrieved in Step 5) is set to true. If it is, the workflow proceeds to Step 7 to turn tracking off. If tracking is already disabled, the workflow skips the update and moves on to the next variant. This step is pre-configured and requires no changes.

MESA sends an update to Shopify's inventory item API, setting the tracked field to false for the current variant. This tells Shopify to stop monitoring stock levels for this item, so it won't go out of stock or display "Sold Out" based on inventory numbers. This step runs automatically using the inventory item ID from Step 5 and requires no configuration.