Tutorials

Getting started with Super Tags

To start auto-tagging your Shopify store with Super Tags: install the app, create a rule, preview it on a few sample items, then click Process & tag store. From then on your rules keep running on the schedule you choose, and in real time on Growth plans and above. This tutorial walks through your first ten minutes in the app, step by step.

What you see when you open Super Tags

The home screen is the rules dashboard. Everything you need day to day is on it:

Super Tags rules dashboard showing plan usage meters, stats and grouped rules
The rules dashboard: plan meters at the top, monthly stats, then your rules grouped the way you organise them.
  • Plan meters - how many products, orders and customers are in scope against your plan's caps, plus your real-time allowance.
  • Stats - items tagged this month, the size of the last run, when it ran, and whether real-time tagging is on.
  • Your rules - every rule with its type, status and a toggle. Group them (for example Collections, VIP, Merchandising), drag to reorder, and filter by type or status.
  • Process & tag store - the button in the header that runs every enabled rule across your store right now.

On a fresh install the dashboard walks you through setup with a checklist: create a rule, pick a plan, run your first sweep.

Super Tags onboarding checklist on a fresh install
The onboarding checklist on a brand-new install.

How do I create my first rule?

  1. Click New rule and choose what to tag: products, variants, orders or customers.
  2. Pick a starter template if you want a head start - recipes like "Tag sold-out products" or "Tag VIP spenders" drop ready-made conditions into the rule, and you can edit everything afterwards. See the full list on the tutorials hub.
  3. Add conditions, for example vendor is Nike, total inventory is 0, or order total is over $100. Match all conditions or any of them.
  4. Choose the tags. Use a fixed tag like sale, or a field-value tag that tags each item with its own data, like brand-nike from the vendor field.
  5. Check the live preview. Pick a few of your real products in the preview panel and you will see exactly which tags would be added or removed. What you preview is what gets applied.
  6. Save, then click Process & tag store.

When do rules run?

Trigger What happens Availability
Process & tag store Runs every enabled rule across your whole store immediately. All plans
Scheduled sweep A background run on the interval you set in Settings, for example every 6 hours. All plans
Real-time Webhooks re-tag an item within seconds of it changing or selling out. Growth and above

While a run is in flight the header shows live progress - percent complete and time remaining - and you can keep working, open the run's details, or stop it.

Header processing pill with live progress and run controls
The header while a run is processing: live progress, ETA, and Stop / View details.

Will Super Tags overwrite my existing tags?

No. Super Tags records exactly which tags it applied to each item and only ever removes those. Tags you added manually, or tags added by other apps, are never touched. This also means you can turn a rule off and cleanly remove just the tags it created.

Can Super Tags tag orders and customers?

Yes. Products, variants, orders and customers are all supported. Two details worth knowing:

  • Order and customer tagging requires Shopify's Protected Customer Data approval, so those rule types stay locked until it has been granted for your store.
  • Variants are not natively taggable in Shopify, so variant rules tag the parent product - for example a rule matching in-stock variants adds size-m tags to the product.

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