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Review the resolved product preview

Learn how to review the resolved product preview with a safe Juniper & Trail example, shopper impact, options, and recovery checks. The preview is evidence, not a promise for dynamic recurring campaigns. Refresh it after catalog edits and immediately before launch.

Before you begin

• Organize Shopify titles, tags, vendors, types, collections, and inventory
• Identify products or variants that must never change
• Know whether future catalog items should join automatically

Keep the campaign in Draft while you verify the configuration. Use a private storefront window where the guide changes shopper-facing behavior.

Step-by-step setup

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1. 1

   Choose all products, rules, collections, or a hand-picked selection.

2. 2

   Define the matching condition used to keep the selection current.

3. 3

   Confirm the number of matching products before continuing.

4. 4

   Inspect matching products, variants, and original prices in the preview.

1. Complete Scope, Variant targeting, and Exclusions.
2. Wait for the automatic preview or use its refresh/retry control after a failure.
3. Compare total catalog, scoped products, included variants, and exclusions.
4. Use pagination without changing the filter; changing scope invalidates an old preview cursor.
5. Resolve zero results, stale-preview warnings, and unexpected items before Next or Launch.

The preview is evidence, not a promise for dynamic recurring campaigns. Refresh it after catalog edits and immediately before launch.

Juniper & Trail example

Juniper & Trail uses review the resolved product preview to include trail-ready products while protecting the Old Growth Logo Tee and sold-out variants with explicit exclusions. The documentation fixture uses realistic products, inventory states, variants, collections, and protected exclusions so the preview exercises the same decisions as a merchant catalog.

What shoppers will see

Only resolved variants receive campaign behavior; mixed products can show different variant prices or eligibility on the same product page. Check the relevant result from product through cart where applicable. For shopper-facing work, compare desktop and mobile and verify both an eligible and an ineligible item.

Common mistakes and troubleshooting

• Acting on the wrong shop. Confirm the Shopify store and campaign before following Review the resolved product preview.
• Trusting a stale preview. Refresh after catalog, schedule, discount, theme, locale, or market changes.
• Repeating a background command. Read status and History first; retry only when Badgy presents a recoverable failure.
• Skipping the consequence check. Confirm what changes for shoppers and what the end or restore path will do.

If the status reports revoked authorization, reconnect Shopify before retrying. If the result still differs from the preview, preserve the campaign ID and approximate time, then open support from this identified shop. Never send customer data, access tokens, or full catalog exports in feedback.

Related guides

• Exclude products and variants

Options reference

| Option | Use it when | Consequence | | --- | --- | --- | | Current preview | Validate this saved selector | Snapshot of current catalog | | Refresh | Catalog or filter changed | Re-resolves from first page | | Next / Previous | Inspect bounded pages | Cursor belongs to current filter | | Retry | Preview request failed | Does not launch campaign |

Badgy behavior in this guide is reviewed against the repository's shipped UI, service rules, and feature design documents. Shopify-owned theme, Markets, Flow, billing, and discount behavior can also depend on the store's Shopify configuration; consult the Shopify Help Center for that platform configuration.