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General customization settings
General customization settings

Learn how to customize your checkout page.

Updated over a week ago

Customization options allow you to change the look of your checkout page to fit your brand perfectly. We strive to transform Checkify.pro into a full-fledged checkout page builder and grant you maximum discretion in personalization. Meanwhile, check this article to understand customization features which are available right now.

In this article:

1. Customization options overview

You can customize almost everything you see on the checkout page. We recommend visiting our Demo store, proceeding to the checkout, and even making a test purchase to get a better understanding of its capabilities. The customizable elements are listed below:

We have been working hard to enable these customizations available on the product. If you have a feature request, a suggestion or a problem, drop us an email [email protected] or [email protected]

2. Preview mode

You can view your changes through the preview of the Checkout page and the Thank You page. To display your changes, just reload the open preview pages. The changes (your customizations) will be applied immediately.

ATTENTION: Please note that some functions are not available in the preview mode, namely, the use of discount codes and automatic translation (for example, detection by IP). The Complete Purchase (Pay) button will also be deactivated.
Also note that in the preview mode, you cannot test the integrations of third-party services, for example, Facebook Pixel, etc.

A pop-up in the admin informs on what exactly is disabled in the preview mode.

3. General settings

In General settings, you can add extra options for your checkout, such as a "Phone number" field or a custom text bar. To learn how to customize the wording of all the motivators, please have a look at our guide on translating your checkout.

3.1 Features

Customization > General Settings tab in the Checkify admin panel contains all the essential modifications for better sales. We explain them below, section by section.

3.1.1 Phone number & Email fields

  • Add a "Phone number" field to the checkout (only for the Default form): if enabled, your customers will see a field for entering their phone number. Also you can make this field required or not - Make a "Phone number" field required

  • Add a "Phone number" field to the checkout and replace "Email" field (only for the Default form): if enabled, your customers will see a field for entering their phone number, and it will replace the "Email" field. In this case you can not disable Make a "Phone number" field required

NOTE: Only one of these two options can be enabled.

Example of the default (Shopify) shipping form for Italy

NOTE: The two options described above will only work for the Default shipping form. You can always create your own unique shipping form in the Shipping section.

The "Phone number" field on the checkout page is added in one click via Customizations

The "Phone number" field on the checkout page with replaced "Email" field is activated in one click via Customizations

Adding helper text:

  • Add helper text below the "Email" field

  • Add helper text below the "Phone" field

You can add helper text below the "Phone" and "Email" fields. These changes will work for both default and custom shipping forms. You can customize (edit) such a text in the localization settings.

Example of helper text added below the "Email" field

Example of helper text added below the “Phone” field

3.1.2 Other shipping form fields

Checkify enables customizations for other fields in the shipping (details) form.

  • Hide placeholder text in all shipping fields. If enabled, the input fields will be loaded without placeholder text. The example is below:

  • Hide flag icon from “Country“ and “Phone“ fields. If enabled, the flag icon will not be displayed. The example with enabled country flag is shown below:

  • Add helper text

You can add helper text below for all the standard shipping fields. There are eight of them. These changes will work for both default and custom shipping forms (but only for standard fields). You can customize (edit) such a text in the localization settings.

Helper text added under "Address" field may help your buyers write the address in a more correct way (format), if required by you

3.1.3 Discount input field

By default, you will see just two options in Customization section:

(i) hide discount code field from the shopping card on mobile;
(ii) hide discount code field from the shopping card on desktop.

Once you set the trigger for the first option to Active state, you will get the option of enabling the third one and displaying the discount code field outside the shopping card on mobile.

  • Hide discount code field from the shopping card on mobile

  • Hide discount code field from the shopping card on desktop

  • Display discount code field outside the shopping card on mobile


3.1.4 Translation options

Checkify provides two options. It is not possible to have both active. Otherwise, the operation would be incorrect.

  1. Automatic translation by country's IP. This is useful when you are selling to countries with one dominant language, such as France, Italy, etc.

  2. Automatic translation based on the language of the device. This is useful when you are selling to countries with multiple languages, such as Canada, Switzerland, etc.

At the same time, you can customize each language individually in the Localization section. Auto-translation will use the custom text data.

NOTE: After customizing your non-core languages, we strongly recommend that you activate your base language. Save changes, then set the trigger (switch) to active (enabled) state.

The base language will be used if the buyer's language could not be determined.

3.1.5 Address validation options

Enable these options to reduce the chance of incorrect or incomplete address input by your buyers. Minimize your additional and unnecessary communication with customers and potential problems (delays) in delivery orders.

  • Automatic validation of ZIP (postal) code

Zip (postal) code specific validation is supported for most countries including UK, US, Canada, Japan and many others.

  • Validating if Address line 1 contains the building number

When enabled, our checkout will be checking for the presence of a house number in the address field. It should prevent the situations when the street is filled in, but the number of the house / block / apartment is missing.

3.1.6 VAT / Tax options

A merchant may enable or disable tax (VAT) collection (charge) on order.

Taxes are calculated automatically based on the data available in this library: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/quick-charts/value-added-tax-vat-rates

The tax rate will be calculated also for the USA, depending on the state, based on the data found in this source.

Please note that taxes are applied to only goods' value. For shipping and offers they have to be activated separately, in the appropriate sections of admin Checkify.

3.1.7 Currency Conversion Function

Checkify enables real-time currency conversion (order value estimation) to your buyers. This will ensure they see the checkout (cart) value in the currency they understand and use.

  • Currency Conversion Function: Display of the total value of the order additionally in buyer's local currency. The conversion will take place automatically.

If you would like the total amount of the order to be also displayed in the buyer's local currency, apart from the default currency of your Shopify store, then you can enable this option.


ATTENTION: You can manage the default currency of your store in Shopify admin. Checkify works with what it gets.

If you use Markets and have already activated the display of different currencies there, then, upon landing on the custom checkout page, a conversion into the primary (default) currency of the store will take place, based on the rate actual at the moment of checkout initiated.

Therefore, we recommend to check whether our native currency conversion functionality is active and enable it, if required.

3.1.8 Shopify settings

This section contains settings directly related to the eComm platform.

  • Send default order confirmation email: disable this feature only if you use third-party apps for sending order confirmation emails (for example, Klaviyo or Mailchimp via Zapier).

  • Creating a customer with send email invite to create account: if enabled, along with 'create new customer' action, Shopify will be sending an email inviting such a buyer to create an account on your store. This option will only work if the "Email" field is present on the shipping form.

  • Don't show UTM tags in Shopify order notes: You can turn off sending UTM tags to Shopify's Order Notes.

  • Preselect the email/sms marketing opt-in: if enabled, the option "Sign up for exclusive offers and news" under the Shipping Details section will be selected (active) by default.

NOTE: Preselecting marketing opt-in is against GDPR Compliance requirements, which call for positive opt-in for email marketing for EU-based customers. So, we do not recommend turning it on if you sell to the European markets and want to remain compliant. Also, this checkbox cannot be hidden (removed) from our custom checkout for the same reasons.

3.1.9 Payment settings

There are several customization options for the payment-related elements on Checkify checkout page.

  • Show express checkout buttons under the shipping address block

Repositioning of the buttons (Link, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal Buy Now) is useful on mobile devices, when selling digital products, or simply when you want to test a different style for your custom checkout page. If enabled, the buttons will be moved below the page.

  • Stripe: Use value from Shipping address form in alternative payment methods

Some payment methods, for example Afterpay, require collection of additional information such as full address, first and last name, etc. You can let your buyer complete these fields right in the payment form of the selected method, or, if your shipping form allows, collect and this information at the stage of entering the data to the appropriate fields of Checkify's shipping form. And then share with the payment method. It would save some time for buyers.

  • Stripe: Initial collapse payment methods

If enabled, it is possible to collapse all payment methods on the сheckout page. The buyers can see payment options in different modes of representation (designs). You may test, collect feedback and understand which one is more convenient for them. The example is shown in the image below:

  • Stripe: To display payment methods vertically using an accordion

You can customize the payment elements' layout to fit your checkout flow. The image below shows the same payment element rendered using different layout configurations:


The default state is Tabs. If the trigger (switch) is set as "Active", you can see the available payment methods displayed vertically, as an Accordion.

  • Don't send products names to payment systems (High Risk products)

This means sending product names to the transaction description can be disabled or enabled. The feature is applied to PayPal and Adyen, while it is active on Stripe integration by default (we don't share product titles / descriptions).

NOTE: It is not possible to disable Checkout URL transmission, since it is required by any payment system. So, the checkout unique ID will be passed anyway.

3.1.10 Page settings

Checkify provides many useful updates both for the design and the functionality of the checkout page.

  • Display a message field for your buyers on the checkout page

You can enable the option and start receiving messages from buyers right from the checkout page. The feature is useful for collecting additional information or requests from your customers. For example, when they want to customize the product being purchased, send the message about a gift wrapping or share any other information that you may need to fulfill the order successfully.

The contents of this field will be shown in Notes block on the Order's page in your Shopify store admin:

You can customize (edit and translate) all the texts related to this option in Localization section.

NOTE: You may use this functionality as a Manual Payment Method in combination with Cash on Delivery:

(i) activate both this block (field) and the said payment option (COD);
(ii) rename the block and other elements involved accordingly;
(iii) get proof from your buyers about their payments for orders being completed manually, somewhere else: a bank transaction details / ID, an identifier for Hash transaction in crypto, etc.

  • Hide the line with the text “Or Pay Another Way ...“ under the express payment buttons

  • Display the country name in local language in the appropriate dropdown on the checkout page. For example, the country name "Japan" will be displayed as "日本".

NOTE: If you use auto-translations or localization mode, then the country dropdown (and the State (region / province) dropdown, if present) for some languages ​​will be translated automatically using the Shopify database.

  • Display a cart reservation timer (countdown)

If enabled, there will be a 10-minute countdown (default) and motivating announcement on the checkout. It is possible to set time within the range 1-30 minutes. The background color of the scarcity timer will be set as the defined accent color.

Example of scarcity timer setting in the admin

Scarcity timer and motivation message at the checkout page

  • Enable custom text bar

It is possible to add a line of custom text to provide a motivational message for your customers.

NOTE: You can change the background color of the custom text bar in the Design settings.

  • Hide block name

It is possible to hide the names of the blocks (sections) at the checkout page if there is a need to minimize the number of words there:

3.1.11 Advanced options

Checkify provides more options for advanced checkout page customization.

  • Hide shipping options block on checkout page.

If you have just one shipping option (for example, always 'Free'), you can deactivate the appropriate block, where selection of the delivery method happens, in order to save your customers' precious time and to make your checkout look even more compact and neat. At the same time, this default option will still be visible in the order summary.

NOTE: Activate the feature when you have a single shipping option. The fact that you can hide shipping selection on your customized checkout page does not lift the requirement to create at least one shipping option in the Checkify admin.

  • Hide billing address fields block on the checkout page

Enable the feature to make your checkout smooth and compact, and in case your customers are mainly B2C, with no additional or special requirements to invoices (billing). If you notice that your buyers never use the billing address block, it is possible to hide it for good measure. At the same time, by default, the content of shipping fields (if available) will be added to the billing fields.

If you want to customize the shipping form, please refer to this article.

3.2 Links on the checkout page

In this section, it is possible to provide links to your store or landing page (the default link is your_store.myshopify.com) and to legal pages (terms, policies). If you want to remove the link to your store from the logo, just save the value #.

We recommend to include links to policies, as they are required by laws and regulations in many countries. Also, you are more likely to win a chargeback dispute if you have terms disclosure on the checkout, since it can be submitted as evidence. You can use policies from your store (policies are automatically linked in the footer) or generate and customize terms and conditions on Shopify and then use them as external links on Checkify checkout.

Links block in the Checkify admin panel

Once added, the links to your terms of service, policies, etc., appear at the footer of your checkout and Thank You pages.

Footer links example

3.3 Delivery information

You can add some additional information about the shipping / delivery or returns processes to your Thank You page. It will keep buyers informed. They will understand what to expect and, therefore, customer satisfaction will grow, while the risks of disputes are minimized.

4. Design settings

4.1 Color options

As for now, you can set custom colors for the following elements (areas) of your custom checkout:

i. Accent color is the color of all the selectors, text links, product quantity labels, product prices & total, labels "Free" for unpaid shipping, and background of the countdown.

Accent colors, example of location

ii. Buttons color is the color of all the buttons on the checkout page (including "Complete purchase" button, "Apply the discount" button).

Example of "pay" button on the checkout page


iii. Error color is the color of highlighting an incorrectly filled or an empty required field on the checkout page.

Example of an error message highlighting an incorrect email


iv. Finally, you can set the color of the background on your Checkout and Thank You pages.

Additionally, you can change: Card color, Text color, Motivator text color and Motivator background color.

4.2 Brand images

Add images to the top of your checkout page. Usually, the merchants choose to display the store's logo on the left and trust badges on the right. Trust badges show to your customers that this page is legitimate, and their data is collected via secure service providers.

NOTE: Checkify does not limit the number of trust badges. If you want to add multiple badges, add them all in one image with a transparent background.

An example of the Checkify logo and a trust badge

To change brand images, follow these steps.

  1. Go to Customization > Design settings > Brand images.

  2. Add links to the selected images. The links should end in the image’s format name, like .PNG, .SVG (recommended) or .JPEG (with no extra symbols like "&width" etc). Also, you cannot use Google Drive links.

    Their ratio should better be 4:1 (check your checkout on desktop and mobile right after saving). The images you upload will be resized to 150px at height.

  3. Click on the "Save changes" button.

To store your images, we recommend using Shopify Files. You can access Shopify Files from the Shopify admin panel, Settings tab.

Locating Shopify Files

Once you upload a file, click the Link icon, and paste the URL to Checkify.

Copy link to the image

You can change brand images (store's logo) and favicon in this section:

4.3 Fonts section

Update a font on your Checkout and Thank You pages to make them look more consistent with the store.

Example: Font "Roboto" is implemented

Unfortunately, it is not possible to guarantee proper display of any font, since the number of variations and customizations is endless. Please use a standard font or simply refer to Google fonts family (collection) and implement something appropriate from it on your custom checkout.

5. Inducements

You can provide up to three blocks of information to convince customers to complete their purchases. Include some info on delivery speed, transaction security, additional benefits like gifts or promo codes, etc. Using this section to display merchant or product reviews is also a good idea.

The Inducements section is displayed at the bottom of the custom checkout page.

Inducements. Example of usage

6. Offers on Checkout page (pre-upsells)

If you are interested in pre-purchase upsells (checkout page extra offers), you can refer to our article.

7. Offers on Thank You page (post-purchase)

If you would like to learn more about post-purchase offers (Thank You page upsell options), you can review this guide.

8. Upsells

Maximize your store's revenue and average order value by creating upsells for your buyers. You can provide checkout page upsells to encourage purchases of additional products from your store. More details in Upsells article.

9. Add tips

Online tipping gives your customers the option to add a tip to their order on the checkout page.

Buyers can add a tip as the value in currency. You can change labels and descriptions to customize the online tipping experience to suit your goals, such as supporting your business financially, participating in fundraising, collecting donations for charity, etc.

Please find more details in our separate article.

10. Resolving common issues

🙀 I added the link to the image from Google Drive. The saved image does not appear.

The links from Google Drive would not work. Please upload your image to Shopify Files (or other storage) and copy the URL.

🙀 Can I align the logo to the center of the page?

Yes, if only the Logo header image in Design settings is added, your store's logo will always be in the center.

🙀 Can I edit the image?

You cannot edit the image directly on Checkify. You can edit it on your device, upload it to Shopify Files (or other suitable storage) and add the link to the appropriate field. Note that the image’s height is restricted to 150px, and the width depends on the size of the image, but usually it is x4. The recommended aspect ratio is 4:1, .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) format for better adaptability.

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