About actions

An action is a workflow component in Shopify Flow. It represents a task that's executed in a store or in an app when certain conditions are met. You can connect your app to Shopify Flow so that your app receives data when a workflow action runs.

This guide shows you how to add an action to your app so that merchants can use it in their workflows.

• Follow our step by step guide on how to create and test a Flow action.
• Check out our action endpoint guide for more information on how to setup an execution endpoint, a custom configuration page preview endpoint and custom validation.
• Learn more about how to return complex data in a Flow action.
• Interested in building a custom configuration page? Follow this guide to learn more.