Shopify Blocks Custom Checkout and Bulk Pricing Edits
Developers building Shopify stores are encountering limitations and workarounds when trying to implement specific functionality. This includes difficulties with bulk data editing, complex pricing structures, custom forms, and extending core features to meet unique business needs. The platform's constraints often require significant custom development and creative solutions.
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“Also important to note: You must be on Shopify Plus to use the Product Discount API in Shopify Functions. Recently ran into that one, had to make it a full-fledged app.”
I’m having trouble with a custom variant picker I built for my Shopify product pages. The default variant selector works perfectly, but my custom one won’t update the product price when customers…
“Shopify can be highly limiting. It restricts your website's features to what is available on their platform. If you want to implement custom functionality or a truly unique design, you run into rigid development barriers. Having your own website give you full control on everything if you want to change or add something in the future”
“I am new to the Shopify ecosystem, but would these "custom apps" be usable under all the Shopify plans or should it be a more expensive plan?”
“Contact form is actually a hell of a good idea. I am so sick of not being able to have a subject line on my help requests other than “new form from X name”.”
“Yeah, the contact forms I was using decided to become a paid app so I built my own. Also three other ones where there wasn't a solution. I'm actually thinking about releasing them for like $2 a month and see if anyone buys them lol”
“I'm evaluating paid Shopify themes and noticed that demos often look impressive, but technical quality varies a lot. As a merchant, should I care about Lighthouse/PageSpeed scores and Schema markup before purchasing, or are these things developers worry about later? Have you ever chosen (or rejected) a theme because of its technical quality rather than just its design and features? submitted by /u/Resident_Elevator991 [link] [comments]”
“I'm evaluating paid Shopify themes and noticed that demos often look impressive, but technical quality varies a lot. As a merchant, should I care about Lighthouse/PageSpeed scores and Schema markup before purchasing, or are these things developers worry about later? Have you ever chosen (or rejected) a theme because of its technical quality rather than just its design and features? submitted by /u/Resident_Elevator991 [link] [comments]”
“I'm evaluating paid Shopify themes and noticed that demos often look impressive, but technical quality varies a lot. As a merchant, should I care about Lighthouse/PageSpeed scores and Schema markup before purchasing, or are these things developers worry about later? Have you ever chosen (or rejected) a theme because of its technical quality rather than just its design and features? submitted by /u/Resident_Elevator991 [link] [comments]”
“My store is trying to sell a "Scone of the Month" box subscription and I am really struggling to figure out how to set up custom product options that will correctly connect an add-on cost to a subscription. The product flow I want is this: Base subscription box price is $12. Customer chooses if they want the specialty scone, sweet, or both (+$12) in their box. Customer selects if they want to add any curd, vinaigrette, tea, additional scones, or additional sweets. If the customer selec”
“Hi everyone. I work for a store that uses a lot of unique codes or reusable codes that offer anywhere from 30%-50% products. Our old developer added a script that limited the percentage discounts to just one eligible item in the order instead of on the full order (which is Shopify's default). Ever since the Scripts Editor app was deprecated, we've had problems with customers getting 50% off of like 10 products instead of just one. Has anyone had this problem before and found a solution w”
“I’ve recently expanded my business to include products sold by other creators, and I’m looking to integrate them into my brand under a commission model. I have a few questions as I evaluate the best marketplace setup: Shopify Marketplace Recommendation: I’ve come across platforms like Webkul, Puppet Vendors, and Shipturtle. Do you have a recommendation on which marketplace app works best for multi‑vendor management, ease of onboarding, and reliable commission tracking? Commission Structure: What”
“Wayfair filtering - choose a colour - refresh, choose another colour, refresh again etc. What about let me pick all my filters and hit apply and refresh the page once.”
“Download claude desktop. Install shopify connector. Tell claude (or show it with a screenshot) what features you want and it will make any custom page element you want and push the changes directly to draft theme. You can edit your entire website in plain language. Can also fix your schema.”
“Most themes are fine until you start stacking custom sections, page builders, and app embeds on top of them. I’d duplicate the theme, turn off non-essential app embeds, then check the product page on mobile first. If the same layout bug survives with apps off, fix the template/CSS. If it disappears, don’t keep changing themes — kill the app or replace that section.”
“Main branch —> published theme Staging branch —> my preview theme (both branches connected to Shopify via Github) I don’t touch the “publish” button in Shopify Admin at all anymore. I let Claude assign a version number like 1.123.1 that I put in a corner on the website so I can always check that I’m looking at the correct version. I had worked only on one feature at a time in the past. But lately I’ve been working on several features in parallel and started asking Claude for a worktree so”
“Honestly nowadays Free theme are really good enough you can simply add customized section from free apps like Section Shop / Store if you want more advanced design not included in the theme”
“Has anyone tried user level personalisation on Shopify stores such as showing upsells, popups based on how users are interacting on the website or based on past user history? I run a Shopify agency and one of my clients in the health and fitness category asked me to explore this area. I have done product level personalisation but never real time user level personalisation, would love to grab some tips and ideas if someone has tried it submitted by /u/geeky_traveller [link] [com”
“Has anyone tried user level personalisation on Shopify stores such as showing upsells, popups based on how users are interacting on the website or based on past user history? I run a Shopify agency and one of my clients in the health and fitness category asked me to explore this area. I have done product level personalisation but never real time user level personalisation, would love to grab some tips and ideas if someone has tried it submitted by /u/geeky_traveller [link] [com”
“Empire is by Pixel Union. Another pretty popular dev. I’d say you’re not gonna get significantly better with anything Maestrooo. The next step is custom. Custom used to be expensive and a deadend that leaves you dependent on your agency - but now it’s pretty easy to do yourself with Claude. It DOES require some basic technical knowledge, just for finding documentation and figuring out how to install things”
“Probably a dumb question but I’m overthinking this now. I’m trying to set up a “pick any 6” box on Shopify. Think coffee flavors / sauces / candles / small skincare items. Customer lands on the page, chooses any 6 products, gets a slight bundle price, checks out. The front-end idea is simple. The backend is where my brain is melting. Options I’ve thought about: Make it one product with variants Sounds terrible because every possible combo becomes a variant nightmare. Use native Shopify Bundles S”
Hey everyone! I’m working on a Shopify store and I’m trying to figure out how to make the product images change when a customer picks a different color option. You know, like…
“So I'm basically new to Shopify and I've been using Claude for the website and some of the codes. I've managed to upload the liquid codes but half of the website isn't there as well as the fonts. In the other hand I cannot upload my website bcs of it being a html. Converted it to .zip but it still isn't accepting. Any advise and help is welcomed🙏🏼 dms opened for all submitted by /u/Every_Dimension3900 [link] [comments]”
“After building many Shopify stores for myself and for clients, I've tested a lot of themes, page builders, and tools. I've found that the most flexible approach isn't buying another premium theme it's using AI to build a fully custom Shopify theme. Here's the workflow I'm using: Create the store design. You can use Claude to generate complete page designs, including the homepage, product page, collection page, and more. Set up your development environment by installing th”
“Has anyone actually vibe coded a complete shopify app and put it on the app store? Really curious to see if that is doable? submitted by /u/GoldiKam [link] [comments]”
“Parts websites, the most difficult websites to nail. I would try to make collection product images all the same size. And in general it looks stuffed to me. Too much text, I guess is for SEO but…btw in your home there is a section of LET CUSTOMERS SPEAK FOR US that seems broken?”
“Was going through crawl data on a store last week and stumbled on something weird. Shopify auto-generates .atom feed URLs for every collection, every blog, search results, even filtered pages. Google was crawling them regularly. none of these pages have any real content. They're just XML feeds Shopify creates in the background without notifying you. In a store with most of its collections, this adds up to hundreds of URLs eating up crawl budget while the actual product and category pages get”
“Codex can handle Liquid, sections, JSON templates and larger theme refactors well, especially when working locally with Shopify CLI and Git. I’d still redesign page by page, provide clear screenshots and acceptance criteria, then manually test responsive layouts, accessibility and Shopify editor settings rather than trusting any AI tool with a full one-shot rebuild.”
“Shopify doesn't have a one-click full store restore like WordPress. The best approach is to back up your theme (download it or use Git), export your products/customers/orders as CSV, and use a backup app like Rewind if you want versioned restores. That gives you the closest thing to a "day one" snapshot.”
“Duplicate the theme.. Then download it and create a git repo for local testing and changes”
“Nice design. On the product page on mobile the One-time purchase and Subscribe and Save options are at the very bottom of the page. It should be with the buy box no?”
“I hired someone to help me with initial build out of Shopify store. Is it possible for me to create a day 1 local backup? In case i mess it up, I can simply restore it? submitted by /u/red8user [link] [comments]”
“Mostly branded customisation, some custom blocks like UGC one, a lot of bug fixes after previos developer, app replacement(cart career, upsell, recommendation blocks and logic) https://arclineusa.com/ Just a note. I did not allowed AI to design and decide, I did large research (with AI tho), I created plan and builder exactly how and what I wanted.”
“The test I’d trust is Shopify to WooCommerce and back to Shopify, then diff the original. If a SKU, variant, or image changes, show it before download. A successful import can still hide quiet data loss.”
“Has anyone here used Codex together with Shopify CLI to redesign an entire Shopify store or theme? I’m planning to redesign my store using the Horizon theme, with Codex editing the local theme repository and Shopify CLI handling previews and deployment. I’d like to rebuild the homepage, collection pages, product pages, and blog templates. I can find plenty of real-world examples involving Claude Code and Shopify, but almost nothing about Codex and Shopify theme development. Has anyone completed”
“So i wanna app on shopify that can help me with that problem i wanna track purchase but from each ad account there is one product. so i will only track one i dont want pixel of ad account track the purchases of rest ad accounts submitted by /u/Winter_373 [link] [comments]”
“Im debating now what is the general agreement (and usually the better choice) regarding omnichannel data flows for small to mid sized specialty retail. when you are building out a web presence for an existing physical store do you find it better to use the point of sale companys native web integration or write custom webhooks to handle the stock adjustments. long story short, im looking over a project for a boutique beverage client and their current register setup uses a WinePOS backend which ha”
“I'm building a site for linen bedding, yet the standard Shopify bundle app doesn't allow enough combinations to allow for the customized bundles I'm hoping to offer. Can someone please suggest the best and simplest bundle app that allows for multiple combinations of sizes, colours, and quantities? Many thanks in advance. submitted by /u/spayne1111 [link] [comments]”
“Quick question for anyone selling personalized / made-to-order products on Shopify (engraving, POD, handmade, etc.) I'm trying to understand how you actually handle custom orders day to day — not selling anything, just genuinely curious how your process works. Specifically: once a custom order comes in, how do you get what the customer ordered (the engraving text, options, uploads, etc.) onto paper for your workshop or for packing? What do you use, and what's the most annoying part of it”