Elevate your e-commerce game: Shopify custom fields with Checkout Extensions Plus

Does your Shopify checkout page do everything you need it to do? If you’re like many businesses, Shopify’s base checkout page doesn’t quite do enough to meet the needs of your customers. 

‍

From customizations and personalizations to notes and delivery requests, there’s a lot of information you can collect at checkout to create a more complete ordering experience. Plus, it’s always good to increase your checkout speed so that you can secure orders faster.

‍

The best way to ensure your checkout page is comprehensive and efficient is through customization. You can extend the function of the page by using Shopify custom fields to add, remove, and edit the areas where customers enter their information.

‍

Here’s everything you need to know about editing Shopify checkout fields and how Checkout Extensions Plus can help.

‍

Why you should customize your checkout fields

Customizing your checkout page is essential for all businesses. Whether it’s for looks or function, you need to make the checkout page yours.

‍

Customers don’t want an out-of-the-box appearance. They want to be reassured that you’re a business they can trust. The more thought you put into creating your checkout page, the more trustworthy you appear.

‍

Customizing your checkout fields ensures you’re providing a branded and unique checkout experience for your customers. If your business has specific information it needs to complete orders, you can collect that information at checkout. If you want to add gifting options, you can do that too.

‍

Adding, removing, and editing checkout fields also helps to shorten the checkout times and speed, which improves conversion rates and customer satisfaction.

‍

How to edit Shopify custom fields

Editing your checkout page used to be much harder. The previous checkout page used checkout.liquid, a code-based theme file, to make changes to the various elements of your checkout. Now, Checkout Extensibility and Shopify checkout extensions make it much easier.

‍

The simplest way to create custom fields in Shopify checkout is by using an app like Checkout Extensions Plus. This tool leverages Shopify Functions to make quick and easy changes to the look, feel, and function of your site without any coding experience required.

‍

Functionality includes adding new fields, changing field titles, and removing fields as needed, plus multiple other checkout customization tools that let you build a Shopify custom checkout easily. 

‍

Once you’ve downloaded the app, you’re ready to customize your checkout fields.

‍

6 ways to use Shopify custom checkout fields

There are a ton of reasons you would want to edit the checkout fields in your Shopify store. Here are six ways to take advantage of the ability to add, remove, and edit checkout fields with Checkout Extensions Plus.

‍

Delivery instructions

Are you running a local business that handles delivery? Navigating through neighborhoods, finding the right apartment number, and getting through security gates are all ways that delivery gets complicated when you don’t have the right information.

‍

You can create a custom field in Shopify’s checkout that lets customers enter specific instructions for their delivery. Directions, no-knock requests, preferred delivery dates, and timeframes for delivery are just a few bits of information that can be included at checkout to simplify the end of the sales process.

‍

Personalization details

If you’re selling gifts or handmade items, offering personalization can be a great way to increase your average order value. If your products don’t have a customization or personalization option, you can add the field to the checkout page so that they can enter the relevant information to make sure the product they get is perfect.

‍

Collecting authorization or signing agreements

If you collect information that you want to use for marketing or other purposes, you have to ask permission. Additionally, if you want to enforce terms and conditions like a no refund policy, you might want to have an area at checkout where customers can check a box or enter their name to acknowledge their compliance.

‍

You can use Checkout Extensions Plus to add an, embed the agreement, and require that the checkbox or text field is completed before you allow checkout, ensuring you’re protected.

‍

Gifting options

Customers sometimes order items online and send them directly to their friends or family as gifts, so they can’t wrap them or add a card for the occasion. If that’s something you offer, adding a gifting option at checkout as an upsell can help increase revenue. Simply make a text box where they can enter the specifics and a checkbox to confirm the gift upsell.

‍

Remove unnecessary fields

Speed is a crucial element of your checkout’s performance. Customers don’t want to spend more time than they have to when buying products online. Because the longest part of checkout is entering information, removing unnecessary checkout fields can help speed things up and improve conversion rates.

‍

Digital purchases that don’t require a shipping address are one case where removing fields can be helpful. Alternatively, you could remove the need for a name and instead ask for an email address for the order instead.

‍

Collecting relevant customer data for marketing use

Informed marketing is the most effective way of communicating with your customers, so creating text boxes that let customers give you some information about them can help improve your relationships with them. Birthdays, preferred products, and how they heard about you are all pieces of information you can use.

‍

Create Shopify custom fields with Checkout Extensions Plus

‍

There’s a lot you can do with custom checkout fields. Adding Shopify custom fields at checkout allows you to collect information and permission more easily to make the checkout process more seamless for customers. Removing them speeds the checkout process up, which can improve conversion rates. Editing them lets you make each field fit your company for a unique branded experience.

‍

No matter what kind of customizations you want to make, UpsellPlus can help. Our checkout extension lets you add, remove, and edit checkout fields as well as add new content, change styling and branding, and much more.

‍

To get started with your all-in-one custom checkout tool for Shopify, start your free 7-day trial today.