The three modes
Suggest mode
The default for every new install. After a scan, broken links land on your dashboard and stay there until you apply a suggestion. Nothing on your store changes until you approve a fix.
When to use it
- You’re new to Relink and want to see what the AI picks before trusting it.
- You have a small store and want to eyeball every fix.
- You’re running on Free or Pro and want full control over which fixes get applied.
Workflow
- Scan finishesOpen broken links populate in the dashboard table.
- Click a broken linkThe drawer opens with Relink’s suggestion.
- Apply, ignore, or overrideEither apply the suggestion, pick another page via the autocomplete, ignore the link, or remove the link.
Automatic fixes
Pro and Business. Relink applies strong suggestions (90% confidence or higher) when the scan finishes. It changes the link on your pages and adds the Shopify redirect without a human in the loop. Links it is less sure about are pointed at a related collection or your homepage until you pick a better page, and links with nothing relevant to point to are removed. Every action is logged on the History page. You can undo every fix except a removal. You can’t undo a removal.
When to use it
- You’ve used Suggest mode for a few scans and trust the AI’s picks.
- You have a large catalog and don’t want to click through dozens of rows weekly.
- You use the daily automatic scan and want it to land fully resolved.
What happens after a scan
Confidence decides what automatic fixes do with each link. A suggestion at 90% or above is applied as-is. Below that, Relink doesn't guess: the link points to a related collection, or your homepage (on Business, your fallback page if you set one), and stays flagged with its ranked alternatives so you can swap in the right page in one click. When nothing in your store is relevant, Relink removes the link. The words stay. Only the link goes. Before anything changes, the suggestion must be a live page in your store and the original link is re-checked to confirm it's still broken. Every change lands in History with Undo, except removals. You can't undo a removal; re-add the link yourself in Shopify.
Redirect all mode
Business plan only. Relink sends every broken link to the one fallback page you set in Settings. The AI is not consulted; no per-link analysis happens.
When to use it
- You’re doing a large catalog overhaul or rebrand and want any stale URL to land on a hub page (e.g.
/collections/all). - You want a uniform 301 strategy regardless of source URL.
- You’re prioritizing simplicity over topical relevance.
Redirect all is the bluntest option. Google treats a redirect to an unrelated page as a "soft 404" — useful for crawl health but not for preserving topical authority. Use it as a fallback, not a primary strategy.
Switching modes
Change Fix Mode at any time in Settings → General. The change applies to future fixes — already-applied or already-queued fixes aren’t reprocessed.
At-a-glance comparison
Need a hand?
Email shopify-support@tryrelink.app — average reply under one business day.