Display important information on the checkout page

Note

This guide is relevant only to merchants selling in Germany.

On the checkout page, customers enter their shipping and payment information, and complete their purchase. Merchants who sell in Germany often display links to the following information on their checkout page:

• Imprint or legal notice
• Terms of service and refund policy
• Tax information, such as VAT
• Shipping policy

Add an imprint or a legal notice to your checkout page

Merchants who sell in Germany often add an imprint or legal notice page to their store, which displays information about their company such as its name, address, and contact details.

You can also add a link to this content on your checkout page in the footer area.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings.
2. Click Checkout.
3. In the Order processing section, check Require a confirmation step.
4. Click Save.
5. Go to Settings > Policies, and then enter text in the Legal notice text box.
6. Click Save.

Add terms of service and a refund policy confirmation to your checkout page

You can display a link to your terms of service and refund policy on your checkout page.

Note

To add a terms of service and refund policy to your checkout page, ensure that you start with your theme language in English. If you already changed your theme language to German, then the English input is locked and can't be edited.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings.
2. Click Checkout.
3. In the Order processing section, check Require a confirmation step.
4. Click Save.
5. Go to Settings > Policies, and then enter text in the Terms of service and Refund policy text boxes.
6. Click Save.
7. In your Shopify admin menu, click the eye icon next to Online Store to preview your online store.
8. Add a product to the cart and go to the checkout. If you see the terms of service and refund policy statement, then you're done. If you don't see the terms of service and refund policy statement, then continue to the next step.
9. Click Online store.
10. Next to your current theme name, click the ... button > Edit default theme content.
11. Click Checkout & system.
12. In the search box, type review and press enter.
13. Under the heading Checkout & system / Checkout review, in the Review notice html text box, enter the following text:

By completing your order, you agree to our {{terms_of_service}} and {{ refund_policy }}

1. Click Save.
2. Click Change theme language.
3. In the Language drop-down menu, select German and click Save.
4. In the German Review notice html text box, enter the following text:

Ich erkläre mich mit den {{ terms_of_service }} einverstanden und die {{ refund_policy }} habe ich zur Kenntnis genommen.

1. Click Save.

Add tax information to your checkout page

By default, the cost displayed to customers on the checkout order summary includes tax. If you want to display the exact amount of tax being paid, then follow these steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, click Online Store.
2. Next to your current theme name, click the ... button > Edit default theme content.
3. In the search box, type Vat label html, and then press enter.

   

4. Under the heading Checkout & system / Checkout order summary, in the Vat label html text box, enter the following text:

{{ amount }} tax included

1. Click Save.
2. Click Change theme language.
3. In the Language drop-down menu, select German, and then click Save.
4. In the German Vat label html text box, enter the same text in German.

Add a shipping policy to your checkout page

If you add your shipping policy in your Shopify admin, then a link to your shipping policy is automatically added to your checkout page.