How do you run a Shopify Flow workflow manually?

Which workflows can you run manually?

Only workflows that are turned on and start from one of these triggers — and they run even on a record whose triggering event has already occurred:

• Order — Order created, Order deleted or Order paid
• Draft order — Draft order created or Draft order deleted
• Customer — Customer created, deleted, enabled or disabled (the trigger reference lists Customer account enabled and Customer account disabled instead; those two triggers apply only to legacy customer accounts)
• Product — Product created only

Turn one on only after the pre-launch checklist; the Shopify Flow app must be installed, and store and app permissions decide which workflows staff can run.

How do you run a workflow on one record or a selection?

For one record, open it and click More actions, then Run Flow automation.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Orders
2. Order
3. More actions
4. Run Flow automation

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For several records:

1. Select them in the list.
2. Click the horizontal menu button (…).
3. In the Apps section, click Run Flow automation.

In Shopify adminOpen in your store

1. Orders

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Either way, on the Automate with Flow page select the workflow and click Run workflow. View results in Flow opens the Activity page, whose Trigger type filter shows manual runs.

How many records can you send at once?

Lists show up to 50 results by default; for more, add ?limit=250 — first in the URL, with any filters after an ampersand.

Shopify's help page, read October 27, 2026, gives two numbers in the same bulk-action section: workflows can be run on a “maximum of 50” records, and appending the parameter to the list URL displays up to 250 results, “which can then be sent to Flow.”

Everything the workflow affects must be on one list page, so filter when it isn't; the bulk action can't run on all of a shop's resources. Afterwards, check on the Activity page that each record got a run, especially above 50.