🧨 VIP Radar: Instantly Spot & Summarize High-Value Shopify Orders with AI + Slack Alerts

Automatically detect when a new Shopify order exceeds $200, fetch the customer’s purchase history, generate an AI-powered summary, and alert your team in Slack—so no VIP goes unnoticed.

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🛠️ Workflow Overview

| Feature | Description | |------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Trigger | Shopify “New Order” webhook | | Conditional Check | Filters for orders > $200 | | Data Enrichment | Pulls full order history for the customer from Shopify | | AI Summary | Uses OpenAI to summarize buying behavior | | Notification | Sends detailed alert to Slack with name, order total, and customer insights | | Fallback | Ignores low-value orders and terminates flow |

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📘 What This Workflow Does

This automation monitors your Shopify store and reacts to any high-value order (over $200). When triggered:

1. It fetches all past orders of that customer,
2. Summarizes the history using OpenAI,
3. Sends a full alert with context to your Slack channel.

No more guessing who’s worth a closer look. Your team gets instant insights, and your VIPs get the attention they deserve.

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🧩 Node-by-Node Breakdown

🔔 1. Trigger: New Shopify Order

• Type: Shopify Trigger
• Event: orders/create
• Purpose: Starts workflow on new order
• Pulls: Order total, customer ID, name, etc.

🔣 2. Set: Convert Order Total to Number

• Ensures the total_price is treated as a number for comparison.

❓ 3. If: Is Order > $200?

• Condition: $json.total_price > 200
• Yes → Continue
• No → End workflow

🔗 4. HTTP: Fetch Customer Order History

• Uses the Shopify Admin API to retrieve all orders from this customer.
• Requires your Shopify access token.

🧾 5. Set: Convert Orders Array to String

• Formats the order data so it's prompt-friendly for OpenAI.

🧠 6. LangChain Agent: Summarize Order History

• Prompt: "Summarize the customer's order history for Slack. Here is their order data: {{ $json.orders }}"
• Model: GPT-4o Mini (customizable)

📨 7. Slack: Send VIP Alert

• Sends a rich message to a Slack channel.
• Includes:
  • Customer name
  • Order value
  • Summary of past behavior

🧱 8. No-Op (Optional)

• Used to safely end workflow if the order is not high-value.

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🔧 How to Customize

| What | How | |--------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Order threshold | Change 200 in the If node | | Slack channel | Update channelId in the Slack node | | AI prompt style | Edit text in LangChain Agent node | | Shopify auth token | Replace shpat_abc123xyz... with your actual private token |

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🚀 Setup Instructions

1. Open n8n editor.
2. Go to Workflows → Import → Paste JSON.
3. Paste this workflow JSON.
4. Replace your Shopify token and Slack credentials.
5. Save and activate.
6. Place a test order in Shopify to watch it work.

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💡 Real-World Use Cases

• 🎯 Notify sales team when a potential VIP buys
• 🛎️ Prep support reps with customer history
• 📈 Detect repeat buyers and upsell opportunities

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🔗 Resources & Support

• 👨‍💻 Creator: Yaron Been
• 📺 YouTube: NoFluff with Yaron Been
• 🌐 Website: https://nofluff.online
• 📩 Contact: Yaron@nofluff.online

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🏷️ Tags

#shopify, #openai, #slack, #vip-customers, #automation, #n8n, #workflow, #ecommerce, #customer-insights, #ai-summaries, #gpt4o

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