Shopify Checkout UI Extension Development: A Step-by-Step Guide (2026)
This guide scaffolds one from a real Shopify CLI project, reads and writes checkout data through the current shopify global object, tests it locally, and deploys it under the platform's actual constraints. By the end you'll have a working delivery-instructions extension and a clear list of the places these extensions tend to fail once real customers start using them. What You're Building (and What This Guide Skips) The extension in this walkthrough adds a text field to checkout where a customer can leave a note for the courier, and it shows the current order subtotal above the field.
- ▪This guide scaffolds one from a real Shopify CLI project, reads and writes checkout data through the current shopify global object, tests it locally, and deploys it under the platform's actual constraints.
- ▪By the end you'll have a working delivery-instructions extension and a clear list of the places these extensions tend to fail once real customers start using them.
- ▪What You're Building (and What This Guide Skips) The extension in this walkthrough adds a text field to checkout where a customer can leave a note for the courier, and it shows the current order subtotal above the field.
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