Challenge
With Shopify's checkout.liquid deprecation approaching, Botanic Tonics needed a compliant checkout that could control customer access by age and location — while giving the merchant the ability to adjust restrictions themselves through the checkout editor, without calling a developer every time.
Solution
Within a one-week deadline, I delivered a tailored checkout experience using Shopify Plus checkout extensibility:
Reduced checkout compliance friction — A tailored checkout experience that meets Botanic Tonics' unique business requirements for age and location restrictions.
Enabled merchant self-service — Extended the checkout editor with essential input types so the merchant can add new restrictions (zip codes, states) without coding expertise.
Early adopter problem-solving — As one of the first implementations, I resolved unique issues with no existing solutions — ensuring a smooth, tested deployment.
Impact
- Reduced checkout compliance friction — Customers encounter a checkout tailored to regulatory requirements, reducing cart abandonment risk
- Enabled faster iteration — Merchant can adjust restrictions independently, without developer bottlenecks
- Future-proofed the store — Migrated from deprecated checkout.liquid to Shopify's extensibility platform
- Delivered under deadline — Full implementation completed within one week
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