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Shopify Editions Winter '24: Essential updates for Shopify Plus merchants
4 tips to migrate smoothly
Seb Harris
Amongst all the excitement of Shopify Winter Editions ‘23, we’ll forgive you if you missed one small but very, very important piece of information. On August 13, 2024 checkout.liquid and Shopify Scripts will be obsolete.
What does this mean? If you currently have checkout customisations running on the Information, Shipping and/or Payment pages of your checkout, you need to upgrade to the new checkout extensibility by August 13, 2024.
The checkout extensibility is part of the new one-page checkout launched in Shopify Editions Winter ‘23. Shopify have given plenty of time for everyone to get their store in order, however we’d recommend getting this done as quickly as possible for 2 main reasons.
The first thing to do is review Shopify’s official migration guide. In the Eligibility section, you’ll see the requirements for using the new upgrade. The most important to take note of are:
As the migration only concerns Shopify Plus merchants that customise their current checkout, the first migration step is to identify all customisations made to checkout.liquid. These could be:
For each area of customisation there are specific ways to migrate. Let’s take a look at a few:
You can either use Customer Events or a server-side tracking solution like Elevar. Shopify’s tracking pixel migration guide is a good place to begin.
You can use Shopify’s Branding API. Note that custom fonts in the new checkout will be possible by May, so it could be a good idea to wait until then to begin if you want custom styling.
You can use Checkout Blocks or integrate with the checkout extension API via a custom app.
Scripts will be decommissioned in 2024 and Shopify are introducing Shopify Functions. If you use Shopify Scripts for your checkout.liquid you should migrate to Shopify Functions in good time of the deadline.
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