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Choose between Shopify Flow, Functions, webhooks, and app backends for fulfillment automation using timing, ownership, recovery, and plan tradeoffs.
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Choose between Shopify Flow, Functions, webhooks, and app backends for fulfillment automation using timing, ownership, recovery, and plan tradeoffs.

A practical Shopify developer guide to moving from checkout.liquid, Scripts, additional scripts, and script tags to Checkout UI Extensions, Functions, web pixels, and blocks.

A technical Shopify developer guide to Delivery Customization Functions covering hide, rename, and move operations, delivery groups, subscription edge cases, merchant configuration, and the checkout pitfalls that appear in production.

A technical Shopify developer guide to migrating line item, shipping, and payment Scripts to Shopify Functions, unified Discount API, delivery and payment customizations, validation, and modern deployment workflows.

A technical Shopify developer guide to Discount Functions covering the unified API, product, order, and shipping discounts, selection strategies, combination rules, code rejection, admin configuration, and Cart Transform-safe architecture.

A technical Shopify developer guide to Cart Transform Functions covering lineExpand, linesMerge, lineUpdate, bundle pricing, metafield-driven configuration, discount conflicts, limits, and production design patterns.