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The words Metascheduler uses, and the statuses you'll see on schedules, runs and items.

2 min readUpdated November 4, 2026

Terms

Term	Meaning
Schedule	An entry on your calendar: a name, a timing and a list of changes.
Timing	How a schedule runs: One time, Window, Repeat or Follow a rollout.
Window	The time between a schedule's start and its end.
Change	One kind of edit to a set of items, like 20% off 140 variants.
Change type	What a change edits, like Variant prices or Navigation menu.
Item	One thing a change edits: a product, variant, entry, menu, page or policy.
Live	A schedule whose changes are made right now.
Revert	Put back the value from before the schedule.
Snapshot	The value Metascheduler saved just before changing an item.
Drift	An item someone else changed while a schedule was live, so it wasn't reverted.
Needs you	The list of things waiting for your decision.
Run	One start or end of a schedule, shown in Activity.
Rollout	A Shopify Rollouts entry: a Launch, an Event or an Experiment.

Schedule statuses

Status	Meaning
Draft	Being set up. It never runs.
Scheduled	Waiting for its start.
Live	Its changes are made now.
Paused	Nothing new starts. Anything live still reverts at its end.
Ended	It ran, and nothing more is due.
Archived	Put away. It won't run again.

Run results

Result	Meaning
Done	Nothing failed. Items changed by someone else, or skipped, still count as done.
Partly done	Some items failed, and the rest went through.
Failed	Every item failed.
Skipped	It didn't run, for example a start whose window had already ended.
Running	It's running now, or waiting for a Shopify bulk operation.
Cancelled	It was no longer due, for example the end of a start that was skipped.

Item results

Result	Meaning
Done	Changed, or put back.
Failed	Shopify didn't accept it, or the app couldn't reach it.
Changed by someone else	Not put back, because it had changed. See How reverting works.
Skipped	Nothing to do, like a revert where nothing was changed at the start.

How scheduling worksSchedules, timing, changes, windows and runs: the ideas behind Metascheduler, and what happens at each moment.

How reverting worksMetascheduler saves what it replaces and checks before it puts it back, so it never overwrites an edit someone made in the meantime.

Change typesEvery kind of change Metascheduler can schedule, what it does, how it reverts, and which plan has it.

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