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Worth two minutes before you build anything, because it explains most of the surprises.

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The order of events

  1. A customer reaches checkout.
  2. Shopify assembles the list of payment methods enabled in Settings → Payments.
  3. Shopify runs your active rules against that cart.
  4. The customer sees whatever survives.
Three consequences follow from step 2:
  • The app can only work with methods you have already enabled. It cannot add a gateway.
  • A method not enabled in Shopify will never appear, no matter what your rule says.
  • A cart that matches no rule sees the default list, untouched.

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What a rule is made of

A condition — the when. Cart total greater than 10000. Simple rules have one; advanced rules combine up to five. An action — the what. Hide, sort, or rename. You may pick more than one. A payment method selection — the which. The list of your store’s methods, where you toggle the ones this rule acts on.

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Draft vs Active

Every rule has a Status in the right-hand column.
  • Draft — saved, not running. Safe to build over several sessions.
  • Active — live on your checkout right now.
There is no scheduled activation. A rule is live the moment you save it as Active.
Rules do not run on draft orders or on any order created in the Shopify admin. They apply to customer-facing checkout only.

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Where your rules live

Each rule is written to the app’s database and mirrored into a Shopify metafield that the checkout function reads. You do not manage this — it is automatic — but it is why rules keep working reliably and why exported rules can be re-imported into another store.