How to Set Up and Manage Auto-Pilot
Automate your store's blog content creation with Auto-Pilot. Set your preferences once, and AutoBlog AI will consistently generate and publish SEO-optimized articles based on your schedule. This workflow is best for storewide, non-product blog topics built from your business profile and overall catalog context.
Best for
Use this flow when you want broader educational or editorial blog content based on your brand, niche, collections, and business profile instead of a specific product.
What Auto-Pilot manages
The automation controls the topic source, publishing schedule, tone, word count, and optional featured image generation. Once launched, the rule can be paused, edited, or deleted from the Auto-Pilot list.
Creating a New Auto-Pilot
Navigate to the Auto-Pilot tab in the left-hand menu.
Click the Setup Auto-Pilot button in the top right corner to create a new automation rule.
Step 1: Content Preferences
In this step, you define what the AI should write about and how it should sound.
- Business Profile for AI: AutoBlog AI imports your store description automatically. You can enrich it with extra brand and audience details to get more relevant articles.
- Language: Choose the output language for generated articles.
- Publish to Blog: Select the Shopify blog where new articles should appear.
- Posting Time and Daily Limit: Define the publish time and maximum number of articles per day.
- Posting Schedule: Pick the specific weekdays for content generation.
- Tone of Voice: Match the writing style to your brand.
- Article Length: Set the target word count for new posts.
Step 2: Visual Style
Make your articles visually appealing by enabling automatic image generation.
- Toggle Automatically generate a main image for each article.
- Choose the image size and orientation that best fits your Shopify theme, such as landscape or square.
- Pick an image style like Realistic, Cinematic, or Watercolor.
- Click Next Step to review your settings and launch the Auto-Pilot.
Managing Your Active Auto-Pilots
Once set up, all your automated tasks are listed on the Auto-Pilot dashboard.
- Status: Check whether an Auto-Pilot is currently Running or Paused.
- Manage actions: Use the action icons on the right to pause, resume, edit, or delete the automation rule.
Tracking Scheduled Articles
Want to know when the next post is coming?
- Go to the Articles tab in the main menu.
- At the top of the page, a status box shows exactly when the next article is being generated and when it is scheduled to be published.