Shopify has released many significant upgrades to improve draft order capabilities, improve checkout experiences, and give merchants greater control and flexibility. These upgrades guarantee improved client happiness, more consistent pricing, and easier transactions.
Extensions Work on Draft Orders Now
What’s New: Checkout user interface extensions work perfectly in draft order checkouts, providing the same transaction experience. (Shopify Plus users can access it.)
Why It’s Important: Previously, draft orders could not be customized to the same extent by merchants utilizing checkout extensions. This upgrade eliminates that gap, making it easier to construct personalized or branded checkout flows.
How to Utilize It: By using checkout user interface extensions, retailers can design customized experiences for customers placing draft orders, ensuring that upsells, branding and unique workflows are applied consistently.
Shopify Features Are Now Included in Draft Orders
What’s New: Draft orders can now be used with Shopify Functions, which let businesses alter important aspects of checkout (such as price and payment logic).
Why It’s Important: This keeps the shopping experience smooth by ensuring that discounts, pricing policies, and special checkout requirements apply to all purchase types.
How to Utilize It: Use Shopify Functions to build custom payment logic, dynamic pricing rules, and other automation that now includes draft orders.
Locking the price of draft orders
What’s New: Even if catalog prices change, merchants may now lock prices on draft orders so that defined prices stay the same.
Why It Is Important: Price changes may lead to misunderstandings or arguments with clients. This functionality ensures that custom deals, bulk order offers, and negotiated rates stay the same until the order is fulfilled.
How to Utilize It: To improve professionalism and prevent issues, use draft order price locking for negotiated pricing, wholesale transactions, or custom deals.
Limit Payments with Gift Cards
What’s New: By utilizing the Payment Customization Function API, merchants can now limit gift card payments on particular products or during promotional times.
Why It Is Important: Gift card payments might not be accepted for certain product types, such as subscriptions or reduced bundles. Merchants have more control over checkout conditions thanks to this functionality.
How to Utilize It: To preserve margins and uphold transparent payment standards, set up payment rules that exclude gift cards for certain goods or special offers.
Extended Validity of Cart
What’s New: Shopify has helped retailers recover more abandoned checkouts by extending the duration of customer carts.
Why It Is Important: During the checkout process, customers frequently become distracted. Conversion rates increase when cart expiration is extended because customers have more time to return and finish their transactions.
How to Utilize It: To improve sales recovery and gently get customers back, use this with automatic abandoned cart notifications.
Split Shipping Is Now Possible
What’s New: Even when using third-party fulfillment providers like ShipStation or ShipBob, merchants can now offer split shipping.
Why It Is Important: Flexibility is valued by customers. Split shipping increases customer happiness by allowing them to ship products as they become available rather than waiting for their complete order to be ready.
How to Utilize It: To reduce frustration over delays, emphasize split shipment as a premium service and use it as a selling feature.
Shop Pay Component Installments
What’s New: Shop Pay Installments are now available to US-based enterprise companies that use the Shop Pay Component.
Why It Matters: By making expensive items more accessible to customers, Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) alternatives decrease purchase refusing and raise cart values.
How to Use It: To encourage higher-value purchases, highlight Shop Pay Installments on product pages, particularly for expensive products.
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