Core CopyHero concepts

Learn how products, stores, workflows, runs, jobs, and the Product Library relate.

Use these concepts to decide where to import products and how to track the work that follows.

The main objects

Destination Store: a connected Shopify store where products can be imported and published.
Product: the canonical catalog record you manage in Products.
Product Library: the owner-scoped catalog view for organizing product data before publishing it to a store.
Task: one reusable step of your listing work, such as translating, converting prices or writing a title. Tasks are listed under Tasks.
Workflow: a reusable sequence of tasks, run in order on each product. Workflows are listed under Workflows.
Run: one execution of a workflow for selected products.
Job: an individual step within a run, with its own status and result.

A task is one step; a workflow is the chain of steps. A task does nothing on its own until a workflow that contains it runs on a product.

Editing a task changes every workflow that contains it, from the next run on. Products that are already finished never change.
Editing a workflow (adding, removing or reordering its steps) changes future runs of that workflow only.
The Tasks page shows reusable steps, not running work. To follow work in progress, open Workflow History.
On Workflows, the Owner column shows You for the workflows you built and System for ready-made ones that come with CopyHero. You can use a System workflow, but only CopyHero can change or delete it. See delete a workflow.

Import a source product to a destination store or to the Product Library.
Select products and use Start Workflow when they share a suitable store context.
Check the run and its jobs to see progress and failures.
Review the product record and publish or update it through its store link.