What is Alius?
Alius is a Shopify app that sends real-time notifications to Slack whenever important events happen in your store — new orders, product changes, customer sign-ups, low inventory, and more. Instead of constantly refreshing your Shopify admin dashboard, Alius watches your store 24/7 and pushes alerts directly to the Slack channels your team already uses. You stay informed the moment something changes — no extra tabs, no email overload.Who is Alius for?
- Solo merchants who want instant order alerts on their phone via Slack
- Operations teams tracking inventory, fulfillment, and pricing changes
- Customer success teams monitoring new customer sign-ups and profile changes
- Managers who need at-a-glance visibility into store activity without logging into Shopify
How it works
Alius connects your Shopify store to Slack in three simple steps:Connect Slack
Link your Slack workspace via OAuth — Alius’s bot joins your workspace and is ready to post messages.
Enable Channels
Choose which Slack channels should receive notifications. Alius’s bot automatically joins those channels.
Core Concepts
| Concept | Description |
|---|---|
| Trigger | A rule that defines which Shopify event to watch and which Slack channel(s) to notify. |
| Condition | An optional filter on a trigger — e.g., “only when Total Price > 50” or “only when Vendor equals Nike”. |
| Template | A reusable message format with dynamic placeholders like {{product.title}} or {{order.totalPrice}}. |
| Integration | A connection to an external service (currently Slack). |
| Snapshot | An internal record of the last known state of a product, order, or customer — used to detect what actually changed. |
Supported events
Alius monitors the following Shopify events in real time:| Entity | Events |
|---|---|
| Products | Created · Updated · Deleted |
| Orders | Created · Updated |
| Customers | Created · Updated · Deleted |
Key Features
Triggers
Create rules that watch for specific Shopify events and send Slack alerts automatically.
Advanced Conditions
Filter triggers with field-level conditions — match on price, tags, status, location, and 50+ other fields.
Custom Templates
Design your own notification messages with
{{variable}} placeholders for complete control over what your team sees.Dashboard Metrics
Track notifications sent and webhooks received over the last 7 days, with week-over-week trend comparisons.