Managing your live and draft checkout configurations

You can create multiple versions of your checkout, thank you, order status and customer accounts pages and save them as drafts. Draft configurations let you try different apps and branding before you make them live. You can also customize, set up, and test draft configurations prior to seasonal sales or BFCM to make sure that your checkout is ready for any high-peak periods.

Stores on the Shopify Plus plan can have up to 99 draft configurations and stores on Basic, Shopify and Advanced plans can have up to 20 draft configurations.

You can view, rename, duplicate, and publish your configurations. Your live and draft configuration names aren't displayed to your customers.

If you want to customize any of your configurations, then refer to Customizing your configurations and Customizing the style of your checkout.

Managing your live configurations

You can view, rename, and duplicate your live configurations. You can have only one live configuration at a time that has real customer traffic.

View your live configuration

You can view how your live configuration is displayed to your customers.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Checkout.

  2. In the Configurations section, click next to your live configuration, and then click View.

Rename your live configuration

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Checkout.

  2. In the Configurations section, click next to your live configuration, and then click Rename.

  3. Enter the name of your configuration, and then click Save.

Duplicate your live configuration

When you duplicate your live checkout and accounts configuration, a new draft configuration is created.

If you already have a draft configuration and you duplicate your live configuration, then your duplicate configuration is indicated as New draft.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Checkout.

  2. In the Configurations section, click Duplicate next to your live configuration.

Managing your draft configurations

You can publish, preview, rename, duplicate, and delete your draft configurations.

Publish your draft configurations

When you publish your draft configurations, you replace your current live configuration. Your live configuration becomes a draft configuration.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Checkout.

  2. In the Configurations section, click Publish next to the draft configuration that you want to publish.

  3. Click Publish.

Preview your draft configuration

You can preview how your draft checkout is displayed to your customers.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Checkout.

  2. In the Configurations section, click next to the draft configuration that you want to preview, and then click Preview.

Rename your draft configuration

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Checkout.

  2. In the Configurations section, click next to the draft configuration that you want to rename.

  3. Enter the new name of your configuration, and then click Save.

Duplicate your draft configuration

When you duplicate your draft configuration, your newest duplicate configuration is indicated as New draft.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Checkout.

  2. In the Configurations section, click next to the draft configurations that you want to duplicate, and then click Duplicate.

Delete your draft configuration

  1. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > Checkout.

  2. In the Configurations section, click next to the draft configurations that you want to delete, and then click Remove.

  3. Click Remove.

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