The change history
and backup for your Shopify store.

Yes, from the day you install Actorly. It keeps the old value and the new value for each change it records. It cannot show changes from before you installed it.

Open the change in Actorly. For product changes, it shows who made it when Shopify reports it, always beside how sure it is. Where Shopify records nothing, it says Unknown and never fills that in later. For the first day, a product change reads Not attributed yet. How to see who changed a product in Shopify.

For select fields, one at a time: a product's title, status, vendor, type, description, theme template or tags; a variant's price; a collection's title, description or sort order; a location's name; a market's name; a file's alt text; a shipping profile's name. Actorly checks the field has not changed since, asks you to confirm the exact value, writes it, then reads your store again to check it took. If a check before the write fails, nothing is changed. If the check after the write cannot confirm the value, Actorly says so and asks you to look at the field in Shopify. It does not restore a whole store or recreate a deleted item.

Actorly Restore can put your products back to how they were at a date and time you choose. Pick a date, a time and what to restore. Actorly shows you every field that would change, and what it is leaving out, before it touches anything. Then it puts each field back and reads it from your store again to confirm. Available on Actorly Restore. Up to 500 fields in one go. Covers the fields Actorly can put back, which are listed in the app. Items deleted since then are left out, and so are fields Actorly has no recorded value for. A field someone has changed since you looked at the summary is not overwritten.

Shopify keeps a few separate records, such as an activity log of recent actions and a stock adjustment history, but none of them is a field-by-field history of a product. Actorly keeps the old value and the new value of each change it records, from the day you install. Read the full answer.

Shopify's activity log may name the person, app or channel behind an action, but its help page does not describe old and new values. Actorly records a variant's price with the value before and after each change. It does not promise a name for a variant: who is shown for product changes, when Shopify reports it. What Shopify keeps when a price is edited.

Shopify's help pages describe no undo for a saved product edit, and say a deleted product can't be restored. Actorly can put 15 named fields back, one at a time, after checking the value took. It cannot restore a deleted product, a theme or a whole store. Undo by situation.

A backup app holds a copy of the store. Actorly is not a copy of your store. It keeps the old and new value of each change it records, from the day it is installed, and can put 15 fields back one at a time. It does not copy or restore a whole store. Shopify backup vs change history.

Shopify's activity log lists recent actions with a name. It is view-only, shows at most 250 results and cannot be exported, and its help page does not describe old and new values. Actorly keeps the old and new value of each change, searchable, and reads the log to find a name for product changes. Shopify activity log: what it shows, its limits.

On Actorly Watch, three months. On Actorly Restore, for as long as the store stays on Restore and Actorly stays installed. If a store moves from Restore to Watch, it keeps the last 90 days, and older history is deleted after a 14-day notice.

Products and variants (including prices), inventory, collections, discounts, shipping profiles, locations, markets, themes, store settings, orders, files and more. Some kinds, such as pages, menus and files, are re-read on a schedule because Shopify sends no change notice for them: weekly on Watch, daily on Restore. See the full list, including what it can't see.

No. Who is shown for product changes, when Shopify reports it. For many kinds of record Shopify gives no one a record of who, so Actorly can tell you what changed and when, but not who. It says Unknown rather than guess.

Actorly Watch is free: three months of change history, and one restore a month (the last 30 days, not a calendar month). Actorly Restore is $29 a month or $240 a year, for unlimited history and unlimited restores. Billing is Shopify's, and there is no trial. Seeing is free; fixing costs.

No. The record starts when Actorly is installed.

No. Actorly records the changes Shopify makes visible to an app, with the old and new value. It cannot see everything, and it shows who only for product changes, when Shopify reports it. The Coverage page lists what it cannot see.

Yes, of what changed: it keeps the old value of each change it records, from the day you install. It does not copy or restore a whole store.

No. Actorly adds no scripts, theme code or app blocks to your storefront. It works in the background from Shopify's change notifications, plus scheduled checks for the kinds Shopify does not announce.

No. Actorly Watch is the free plan, with no clock.

No. Recording a change and working out who made it are done by fixed rules.

Never. Busy stores pay the same as quiet ones. Plans differ in how long history is kept and how many restores you get.