Every 15 minutes
Write product descriptions in a sheet and push approved ones to Shopify
New products in your sheet get AI-written descriptions with French and German translations, and rows you approve update the product in Shopify.
- Runs
- Every 15 minutes
- Apps
- Google Sheets, Shopify
- AI
- Yes, uses the built-in AI allowance
- Access
- Sheets read+write; Shopify write_products, write_translations
Send this to your assistant
Create a ClickRuntime automation: every 15 minutes, check my Descriptions sheet: write a description and French and German translations for new rows, and when I mark a row Approved, update the product in Shopify.
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Why use it
Why teams use this automation
A ceramics studio sells in English, French and German. Every new collection means writing dozens of product descriptions and getting them translated, which takes weeks and holds back the launch.
Drafting the descriptions and translations in a shared sheet, where the team can read and edit them side by side, turns weeks into an afternoon of reviewing. Only rows someone has approved reach the store, so quality stays in human hands.
What you get out of it
Launch collections sooner
Drafts for every product and language appear within minutes of adding a row. The team spends its time checking, not writing from scratch.
Review in a familiar tool
Everyone can read and edit a spreadsheet. Translators and copywriters work on the same row without a Shopify login.
Only approved text goes live
Nothing changes in Shopify until someone marks a row approved. Mistakes are caught in the sheet, not on the product page.
Consistent tone across languages
Every language is written from the same brief and the same product facts. Customers get the same story whichever language they read.
How it works
What happens, step by step
Every 15 minutes, ClickRuntime reads your Descriptions sheet.
For each new row with product notes, AI writes a description in your main language and translations for the other languages you sell in.
The drafts are written into the row for you to review and edit.
When you mark a row Approved, the description is sent to that product in Shopify, with the translations kept in the sheet for your store's translation settings.
The row is marked Published so it is not sent again.
Before it runs live
- Connect your Google Sheets account and pick the spreadsheets it may use
- Connect Shopify
What you get
Build your own
Need it to work differently?
Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.
Changes you can ask for
- Act only on the items that match your own rules, and skip the rest
- Change what the AI looks for, or how it writes the result
- Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
- Combine it with other Google Sheets and Shopify steps into one automation
Under the hood
The code that runs this automation
from google.oauth2.credentials import Credentials
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http, ai, report_fetched
STORE = "your-store.myshopify.com"
def gql(query, variables=None):
resp = http.post(f"https://{STORE}/admin/api/2025-07/graphql.json", json={"query": query, "variables": variables or {}},
headers={"X-Shopify-Access-Token": credentials.connection("shopify", "store")})
return resp.raise_for_status() or resp.json()["data"]
SHEET_ID = "your-spreadsheet-id"
SCHEMA = {"type": "object", "properties": {"en": {"type": "string"}, "fr": {"type": "string"}, "de": {"type": "string"}}}
@on_trigger
def run(event):
sheets = build("sheets", "v4", credentials=Credentials(credentials.connection("google", "work")), cache_discovery=False).spreadsheets().values()
rows = sheets.get(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range="Descriptions!A2:F").execute().get("values", [])
todo = [(i, r + [""] * (6 - len(r))) for i, r in enumerate(rows, start=2) if len(r) < 6 or r[5] in ("", "Approved")]
todo = [(i, r) for i, r in todo if r[1] and (not r[2] or r[5] == "Approved")]
report_fetched(len(todo))
for i, (handle, notes, en, fr, de, status) in todo:
if not en:
d = ai.generate(f"Product notes: {notes[:1500]}", json_schema=SCHEMA, max_output_tokens=1200,
system="Write an 80-word product description in English, then French and German translations.").json
sheets.update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Descriptions!C{i}:E{i}", valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": [[d["en"], d["fr"], d["de"]]]}).execute()
elif status == "Approved":
pid = gql(f'{{ productByHandle(handle: "{handle}") {{ id }} }}')["productByHandle"]["id"]
gql("mutation($p: ProductUpdateInput!) { productUpdate(product: $p) { userErrors { message } } }", {"p": {"id": pid, "descriptionHtml": f"<p>{en}</p>"}})
sheets.update(spreadsheetId=SHEET_ID, range=f"Descriptions!F{i}", valueInputOption="RAW", body={"values": [["Published"]]}).execute()
return {"rows": len(todo)}FAQ
Common questions
What do I put in the sheet for each product?
Can I edit the AI text before approving?
Which languages are supported?
What permissions does it need?
Does it need AI?
How many runs does it use?
Can I change how it works?
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