troubleshooting
Recover an orphaned campaign
Learn how to recover an orphaned campaign with a safe Juniper & Trail example, shopper impact, options, and recovery checks. An orphaned campaign has incomplete operational state after interrupted work. Use the recovery action presented by Badgy, keep the campaign ID stable, and confirm both storefront cleanup and History afterward.
Before you begin
- Do not repeatedly launch, end, or restore while a job is running
- Capture the campaign ID, status, and approximate time
- Check Shopify authorization and theme status first
Confirm the shop, current status, and intended consequence before changing anything. Use read-only status, preview, or history evidence first.
Step-by-step setup
Use the summary cards to check live, scheduled, and sale-product totals.
Inspect the active campaign and use its view, edit, revert, or end actions.
Check theme embed, badge, banner, background-job, and countdown health.
Search and filter past campaigns before opening their records.
- Open the Orphan recovery banner for the intended shop and confirm the current record and status.
- Review the detected campaign/job mismatch and use the offered scoped recovery instead of creating a replacement campaign.
- Read the inline summary, warning, or preflight before submitting; do not repeat a command while background work is running.
- Confirm operational status, storefront cleanup, snapshots, and audit evidence become consistent.
- Confirm the resulting status and History/audit evidence, then spot-check Shopify or the storefront when the action has external effects.
An orphaned campaign has incomplete operational state after interrupted work. Use the recovery action presented by Badgy, keep the campaign ID stable, and confirm both storefront cleanup and History afterward.
Juniper & Trail example
Juniper & Trail uses recover an orphaned campaign on one affected campaign, records its status and failure code, and avoids starting a second command while recovery runs. 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
Prioritize price correctness and misleading offer removal. If the storefront message is wrong, use the documented safe stop path while recovery continues. 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 Recover an orphaned campaign.
- 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
Options reference
| Option | Use it when | Consequence | | --- | --- | --- | | Inspect | Understand mismatch | Read-only first | | Recover | Resume/repair offered state | Background idempotent work | | Support | Recovery remains inconsistent | Attach campaign/time/failure context |
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.