Shopify platform change
Your Thank you and Order status pages change on 26 August 2026.
If your store is on Basic, Shopify, or Advanced, that is the date Shopify upgrades those two pages — automatically, and without a way back, if you have not done it yourself. Tracking configured the old way does not come with them. Here is what is true, what is not, and the five-minute check you can run in your own admin.
28 August 2025
Shopify Plus
checkout.liquid and additional scripts stopped being supported on the Thank you and Order status pages. The Additional scripts box became view-only for every store — you have not been able to edit it since.
26 August 2026
Basic, Shopify, Advanced (non-Plus)
The deadline to upgrade your existing Thank you and Order status pages to the new version. Stores that have not upgraded by then are upgraded automatically, and that is not reversible.
Three things this change is not
- It is not your whole checkout. Shopify's non-Plus upgrade covers the Thank you and Order status pages. The information, shipping, and payment steps are not part of it.
- It is not checkout.liquid being taken off non-Plus stores. checkout.liquid is documented as available only to Shopify Plus merchants, and it was sunset for these two pages on the Plus date in 2025. A Basic, Shopify, or Advanced store never had it.
- It is not something already broken. Scripts on those pages keep running until your store is upgraded. What changed in 2025 is that the Additional scripts box went view-only, so you can read it but not edit it.
Shopify Scripts — the Plus-only discount, shipping, and payment scripts — is a different product on its own timeline and is not covered here.
The five-minute check, in your own admin
Open the upgrade guide Shopify generated for your store
Shopify admin → Settings → Checkout → Configurations. Shopify lists your own additional scripts and flags installed apps that are not compatible with the new pages. This is the only view that reflects your actual configuration.
Read your Additional scripts box and save a copy
It has been view-only since 28 August 2025, so you cannot edit it — but you can read it. Paste the contents into a document. This is the list of things that need a new home, and after the upgrade it is gone.
List what you have under Settings → Customer events
App pixels and custom pixels are Shopify’s documented replacement for tracking on these pages. Write down every pixel already there.
Compare the two lists
Every tracking vendor in step 2 that has no matching pixel in step 3, and no official Shopify app of its own, is a gap you close before the deadline. Install the vendor’s Shopify app where one exists; a custom pixel otherwise.
Test the replacement, then upgrade on your own schedule
Place a real test order and confirm the new pixel reports it. Then complete the upgrade yourself in Settings → Checkout so you pick the moment, rather than having Shopify pick it on 26 August 2026.
What a scan can see
- Whether your published theme still contains layout/checkout.liquid or leftover checkout asset files.
- Which ad and conversion tags render in your storefront page source — and that storefront code never runs on checkout, the Thank you page, or the Order status page.
- How many web pixels your storefront reports as configured, when Shopify inlines that list into the page.
What no scan can see
- Settings → Checkout → Additional scripts — the setting the upgrade actually removes. No Shopify API exposes it and no app scope grants it. Only you can read it, in your admin.
- Script tags installed by your apps. Reading them needs a scope this app does not hold.
- What is inside each configured pixel. The page source shows that pixels exist, not which vendor each one reports to.
- Whether your store is on Plus, and whether you have already completed the upgrade.
- The Thank you and Order status pages themselves. They exist only after a real order, so no scan can visit them.
That second list is the honest part. The setting this deadline is about lives behind a door Shopify does not open to apps, so any tool claiming to audit your checkout tracking for you is describing the outside of the building. The steps above are the check that actually reaches it.
Questions
Does this affect my checkout pages, or only the Thank you and Order status pages?
Only the Thank you and Order status pages. Shopify’s non-Plus upgrade guide is scoped to those two pages. The information, shipping, and payment steps of checkout are a separate matter and were never customizable on a non-Plus plan.
Is Shopify removing checkout.liquid from my store?
Not if you are on Basic, Shopify, or Advanced. checkout.liquid is documented as available only to Shopify Plus merchants, so a non-Plus store never had it. It was sunset for the Thank you and Order status pages on 28 August 2025, which was the Plus date. If the file is sitting in your theme, it is a leftover and it is inert.
What happens if I do nothing by 26 August 2026?
Shopify upgrades the pages for you, and the upgrade cannot be reversed. Customizations that used additional scripts or apps with script tags on those two pages do not carry over. Upgrading yourself beforehand means you choose the timing and can test the replacement first.
How do I know whether my Google Ads or Meta tracking is affected?
Read Settings → Checkout → Additional scripts, then compare it against Settings → Customer events. If a vendor appears in the first and has no pixel or official Shopify app covering it, that is the gap. Tracking installed through a vendor’s Shopify app or as a pixel is already on the supported route.
Can AccessComply do this for me?
No. The setting that matters is not exposed by any Shopify API, so no third-party app can read it or migrate it. This is a job for you in your admin. Our scan can tell you what is in your theme and which tags render on your storefront pages, which is useful context, but it is not the answer.
Does the Additional scripts box still work right now?
Existing scripts on those pages keep running until your store is upgraded, but the box has been view-only since 28 August 2025 — you can read what is in it and you cannot change it.
Primary sources
Every date and rule on this page comes from Shopify's own documentation. Check them against your store rather than taking ours, or anyone else's, for it.
- Non-Plus — Upgrading and replacing your Thank you and Order status pages
The 26 August 2026 deadline and the automatic upgrade.
- Reviewing and replacing additional scripts
App pixels and custom pixels as the replacement for tracking scripts.
- ScriptTag functionality to be blocked
Script tags sunset 28 August 2025 for Plus, 26 August 2026 for non-Plus.
- checkout.liquid (Shopify theme architecture)
checkout.liquid is available only to Shopify Plus merchants.
While you are in there
The checkout part is yours. The storefront part we can help with.
AccessComply scans reachable storefront pages for accessibility, SEO, and speed issues, and applies supported changes you approve one at a time. It does not read your checkout settings, and it cannot do the upgrade above for you.
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