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Sidekick is useful for drafting, lookups and repetitive admin edits, and risky anywhere an unreviewed change touches prices, inventory or customers. Here is how to draw that line, using what Shopify documents.
The Checkout Branding API goes further than most teams realize, and most teams should still stop after the first four changes.
Two Editions and a year of changelog entries. Five changes altered a decision worth money; most of the rest were a press release with an illustration.
Extensions let you put almost anything into checkout. Almost everything people put there costs more conversion than it earns.
Three worked Shopify Functions examples for checkout: a custom discount, delivery options by cart, and order validation, plus the limits and the Plus gate.
Shopify customer accounts are extensible now, with blocks, order actions and whole custom pages. Whether yours deserves the work is a different question.
Shopify Functions will express almost any discount rule you can describe. The limits that break a promotion are the boring ones: how many discounts can be active, and which of them combine.
Nothing on Shopify stacks until you tick a box. The promotions that lose money are the ones where somebody ticked every box and nobody did the arithmetic on the worst basket it allows.
The discount system reduces prices. It does not put things in carts. Once you know which half of the problem you are solving, the build stops being a fight.
The Edition is the announcement. The changelog and the API version schedule are the documents that actually bind you, and only one of the three has a deadline in it.
Shopify shipped a few hundred things. Six of them change a decision you are making this quarter; most of the rest are a press release you can safely skim.
Checkout is now three narrow, well-documented surfaces instead of a template you could edit. Knowing which of the three a request falls into answers most of the scoping.
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