Recurring Image Edits
A recurring image edit runs on a repeating schedule and always pairs each apply with an automatic revert. It's built for cadenced campaigns — a weekend-sale badge added every Friday and removed after the weekend, or a seasonal background that comes and goes.
Setting up a recurring edit
Stage your edit, then click Create Job ▾ → Recurring:
- Frequency: Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly. (Daily isn't offered — daily image swaps churn your media and pressure Shopify's limits.)
- Auto-revert is required and must finish before the next run. Each cycle applies, then reverts to the captured original, so per-cycle changes are never silently overwritten.
When you confirm, the recurring edit is armed and you land on Automations.
The recurring cycle
Each cycle:
- Applies the staged edit (composites, uploads, attaches, snapshots the originals).
- Reverts at the end of the window, restoring the exact pre-cycle images.
- Repeats on the next scheduled date.
Because revert restores a snapshot (it never re-computes), anything you changed between cycles isn't clobbered by a recompute.
Lifespan
A recurring edit runs for up to 13 months, then auto-ends with a notification prompting you to re-arm it. This cap keeps the schedule finite (so conflict checking stays exact) and guarantees a yearly edit fires at least once.
Managing from Automations
Recurring image edits appear on the Automations page alongside recurring bulk jobs, each tagged with an Image badge.
- Edit takes you back to the edit's page.
- End disarms the recurring edit (it stops firing).
Conflict prevention
As with scheduled edits, arming a recurring edit checks for conflicts against every other armed or live edit — over the whole recurring lifespan, every occurrence enumerated. If two edits would own the same variants in overlapping windows, arming is blocked with the conflicting edit named. Sequential seasonal cycles (Christmas → revert → festival → revert → weekend → revert) never collide; the check only fires on accidental overlap.
What's next?
- Scheduled image edits — One-shot future runs.
- Applying & reverting — Snapshots and revert modes.
- Image Edit history — See each recurrence after it runs.