Checkout extensibility upgrade guide

You can useShopify checkoutto accept orders and receive payments wherever you sell online. If your store is on theShopify Plusplan, then you can use checkout extensibility to addappsandadvanced branding customizationsin a way that's upgrade-safe and works withShop Pay.

This guide describes new ways that you can use checkout extensibility to customize your checkout on Shopify if you're currently a store on the Shopify Plus plan usingcheckout.liquid. Use theCheckout Extensibility Upgrade Kitto learn more about how to assess and replace your current checkout customizations.

About checkout extensibility

Checkout extensibility is a faster, better performing, more secure, and upgrade-safe option thancheckout.liquidfor checkout customizations. Checkout extensibility also works seamlessly with Shop Pay. By upgrading to checkout extensibility, you can take advantage of several new features and capabilities, including the following:

Checkout extensibility lets you create checkout customizations that are built into apps. These apps are fast to install and upgrade-safe. To add to this, checkout extensibility is continuously evolving to meet your needs through new or improved features, alongside new apps.

Eligibility

To use checkout extensibility, your store needs to be on theShopify Plusplan. You can't use any features that are incompatible with checkout extensibility, such as the following features:

Advanced Cash on Delivery
在飞行中API突变
Unsupported Hosted Payment SDK Gateways

Upgrade to checkout extensibility

You can still upgrade to checkout extensibility even if you can't replicate all of your existingcheckout.liquidcustomizations.

Step 1: Review your existing checkout.liquid customizations

From your Shopify admin, go toOnline Store > Themes.
Find your current theme, and then click the...button.
ClickEdit codeto review your existingcheckout.liquidcustomizations.

Learn more about thecheckout.liquidlayout.

Step 2: Create and publish a new checkout

From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Checkout.
In theCheckout customizationsection, clickCreate draft checkout.
Customize your checkout by adding apps or editing your branding. Learn more aboutcustomizing and editing your checkout.
Optional: Set up yourPixelsor其他甲方功能.
Review your changes.
When you're ready to use this new checkout, clickPublish.
In the pop-up window, clickPublishto confirm that you want to replace your livecheckout.liquidcustomizations.

As Shopify makes new improvements, your new checkout will automatically update.

Optional: Installing checkout apps

考虑安装checkout apps from the Shopify App Storeto enhance your checkout through added functionalities that can help you grow conversions, increase average order value, and more.

Optional: Setting up your Pixels

If you're currently usingcheckout.liquidto track customer events, then you should replace it withPixelsbefore publishing your draft checkout.

Optional: Setting up additional first-party features

It's possible that some of yourcheckout.liquidcustomizations are now supported in Shopify. Before publishing your draft checkout, review and set up these features, as applicable.

Features that are now supported in Shopify include the following examples:

Revert to checkout.liquid

After you upgrade to checkout extensibility, liquid customizations will only apply to yourThank YouandOrder Statuspages. To apply liquid customizations to all of the checkout, you can revert back tocheckout.liquid.

Steps:

从the Checkout screen, in theCheckout customizationsection, clickcheckout.liquid.
ClickRevert to checkout.liquid.
ClickRevertto replace your live checkout and some other checkout features.

After you revert tocheckout.liquid, your checkout extensibility customizations are saved as a draft that you can update and publish later.

If you started usingfeatures incompatible withcheckout.liquidand you revert tocheckout.liquid, then these features will stop working.

Features incompatible with checkout.liquid

The following features are incompatible withcheckout.liquidand are only available when you upgrade to checkout extensibility: