Inside Shopify’s Major Checkout Upgrade

About the episode

I appeared on The Unofficial Shopify Podcast to share a developer’s perspective on migrating to Checkout Extensibility. The episode also featured Michael Elmgreen, Director of Product at Shopify, explaining the thinking behind the upgrade, and Brett Fish covering data-layer implementation and marketing integrations.

In my conversation with host Kurt Elster, I discussed the practical work behind checkout migrations: replacing custom styling through the Branding API, handling tracking with web pixels, finding compatible apps and bringing content and upsells into the new checkout. I drew on my experience at Convert Digital and building Checkout Components.