Checkout.liquid Is Dying: A Non-Plus Merchant Guide
A breakdown of what changed and why it matters.
August 26: The Day Shopify Rewrites Your Checkout
On this month, Shopify announced checkout extensibility.
Here is what actually matters for store owners.
Full disclosure: Seller Tales is published by JoyCraft — when we recommend our own tools below, we say so.
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My Experience
I spent hours figuring out what was happening. The key point: non-Plus is already affecting how your checkout works. I switched over the weekend and it worked surprisingly well.
The issue is that most merchants do not know this is happening. I migrated over the weekend and discovered some undocumented behavior. I spent days migrating what was happening.
- UI Extensions changed without warning.
- I tried this on my store and discovered some undocumented behavior.
- I spent hours fixing what was happening.
- tracking scripts broke without warning.
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