Guide · Verified against Shopify docs, July 2026

How to Customize the Shopify Thank You Page in 2026

Open your admin and go to Settings → Checkout → Configurations → Edit. That's the real answer in 2026. If a guide told you to paste code into Additional Scripts, close it — that box has been locked since August 2025, and non-Plus stores get switched over by 26 August 2026 whether they're ready or not.

By the PPUA Team · Published 28 July 2026 · ~11 min read
The 30-second answer

Settings → Checkout → Configurations → Edit. That opens the checkout and accounts editor. Click the page selector menu at the top, choose Thank you, then add app blocks under Sections. Three things almost every other guide leaves out: the one-click upsell isn't in that editor (it's a separate setting, and only one app can hold it), the order status page is a different page that needs its own blocks, and Shop Pay orders never see a post-purchase offer — which is why so many merchants think their app is broken.

What's on this page

  1. Why most guides are wrong
  2. Your deadline, in plain English
  3. The 3 pages people mix up
  4. The 8 steps (with exact clicks)
  5. What's worth adding
  6. Why your upsell isn't showing
  7. What you genuinely can't do
  8. Migration checklist
  9. Do it in one app
  10. FAQ

Why most guides you'll find are wrong

Here's something worth knowing before you follow any tutorial on this.

In July 2026 we read through the guides ranking on page one of Google for this exact question. Several of them — including one with "2026 Guide" in the title — still tell you to paste code into Settings → Checkout → Additional Scripts.

You can't. That box went read-only on 28 August 2025.

Not one of the top guides we checked mentioned:

So if you've been following a tutorial and nothing worked — it probably wasn't you. Everything below was checked against Shopify's own Help Center in July 2026.

Your deadline, in plain English

Shopify rebuilt how these pages work. Code came out. Drag-and-drop blocks went in.

This isn't optional, and it isn't far away.

Heads up · your upgrade date

Plus stores: deadline was 28 August 2025. Already passed.

Every other plan: 26 August 2026. That's weeks away.

You might not pick the day. Automatic upgrades began in January 2026. Pause and Build plan stores are upgraded automatically too.

And here's the painful part. Shopify's upgrade guide says it plainly: when you upgrade, your existing Thank you and Order status pages "and any existing customizations on those pages are replaced with the new versions." Gone. Read Shopify's upgrade guide →

Now the good news, and it's real: this makes your life easier.

Old scripts broke on updates. They slowed pages down. Usually one freelancer understood them, and they left two years ago.

Blocks don't do any of that. And you'll never need a developer to change a line of text again.

A story you might recognise

A merchant installs an upsell app on Monday. Sets up a great offer. Tests it on a friend's order — works perfectly.

Two weeks later: almost zero offers shown. The app dashboard says it's live. Support says it's configured right.

So what happened?

Most of their customers tap the Shop Pay button. Shopify doesn't serve post-purchase offers on accelerated wallet payments. The setup was perfect. The traffic just never qualified.

Nobody tells you this before you buy. That's the section further down that most guides skip — and it's the one that saves you the most time.

Get this right first

The 3 pages people mix up

Most "my block isn't showing" problems are really "I edited the wrong page." Three screens. Three different settings.

1

The post-purchase page

Loads the instant payment clears — before the confirmation screen. This is where the one-click upsell appears.

Set in: Settings → Checkout → Post-purchase page

2

The thank you page

The "Order confirmed!" screen. Seen once, right after paying. Surveys, referral nudges and custom messages go here.

Set in: the editor → page selector → Thank you

3

The order status page

Where they come back days later to check tracking. With new customer accounts it works like an account page. Blocks do not carry over from the thank you page.

Set in: the editor → page selector → Order status

In conversation, everyone calls all three "the thank you page." That's fine over coffee. It's not fine in the admin, where each one has its own place to click.

Want the deeper version of how the one-click offer works? See one-click upsell after checkout.

Step by step

The 8 steps, with exact clicks

No code. No developer. About half an hour.

  1. Check which checkout you're on

    Go to Settings → Checkout. Find the Additional Scripts box.

    Greyed out? You're on the new checkout. Everything below applies.

    Still editable? You haven't been upgraded yet — but you will be. Do this now, calmly, instead of on the day it breaks.

  2. Open the checkout and accounts editor

    Same settings page. Scroll to the Configurations section and click Edit on the configuration you want to change.

    Not "Customize" — Shopify labels this button Edit. If you're hunting for a Customize button, that's why you can't find it.

  3. Switch to the Thank you page

    The editor opens on Checkout. Click the page selector menu at the top and choose Thank you.

    That same menu holds Checkout, Thank you, Order status, Orders, Profile and Sign-in. Six separate pages. Pick carefully.

  4. Add an app block

    Open Sections, then click ⊕ Add block in the section you want. Pick a block from an installed app, then click the block to open its settings.

    Empty list? You don't have an app installed that offers thank-you-page blocks yet. Install one, then come back — the block shows up on its own.

    Shopify checkout and accounts editor on the Thank you page. The left panel lists sections — Announcement bar, Header, Main, Order summary and Footer — each with its own Add block link. An app block named Oxify Product Recommendation sits inside the Main section under Confirmation, with the live thank you page preview on the right.
    This is the real editor. Every section — Announcement bar, Header, Main, Order summary, Footer — has its own Add block link, so where you click decides where the block lands. Here an app block sits in Main, just under Confirmation. Drag the handle on the left to move it. The eye icon hides it without deleting it.
  5. Reorder without the menus

    Turn on the preview inspector with ⌘ + ⇧ + | on Mac or Ctrl + Shift + | on Windows.

    Now you can reorder, hide and duplicate blocks right in the preview window. Far faster than clicking through the sidebar, and hardly anyone knows it's there.

  6. Set the one-click upsell separately

    This is the step people miss. The upsell is not in this editor.

    Go back to Settings → Checkout and find Post-purchase page. Choose your app from the dropdown.

    Shopify allows only one checkout app to add post-purchase features at a time. Install a second upsell app and nothing changes until you switch this setting over.

  7. Now do the order status page

    Back to the page selector, choose Order status, add your blocks again.

    Nothing carries over. Want a tracking block in both places? Add it twice.

  8. Place a real test order

    Buy something cheap from your own store with a real card, then refund yourself.

    Watch the whole flow in order: pay → offer appears → decline → thank you page → blocks load. Check it on your phone, because that's where most buyers are.

    Five minutes here catches more problems than an hour of previewing.

What's actually worth adding

You can fill this page with anything. You shouldn't. Every extra block pushes the useful stuff below the fold.

These five earn their place:

Start with the upsell and the note. Add the rest once those work.

Need offer ideas? See the best products to offer as post-purchase upsells.

Thank you page editor showing block types — product recommendation, rich text, banner, image, video, FAQ and trust badges — with a Display on toggle set to Both pages and a live preview of a one-click upsell offer.
What a block editor looks like in practice. This is our own app, Oxify — not the Shopify admin. Two things worth copying whichever app you pick: the block list on the left (each one drops onto the page separately), and the Display on toggle, which lets you choose Both pages, Thank-you only or Order status only. That toggle exists because, as covered above, those really are two different pages.

Why your upsell isn't showing

You set it up. You tested it. Nothing appears.

Before you blame the app, read this list. It's almost always the payment method — and no app can work around it, because it's Shopify's rule, not the app's.

Shopify skips the post-purchase offer when:

None of this is a bug. It's how the post-purchase page works, and it's the same for every app on the App Store.

What to do about it: check your payments report before you judge the app. Work out what share of orders come through plain card payments — that's your real reachable audience. If it's tiny, put your effort into the thank-you-page blocks instead, which show for everyone.

Mostly COD? Read why COD blocks post-purchase upsells and what to do instead.

Reality check

What you genuinely can't do

The trade is worth naming honestly: you lose fine control, and you gain pages that never break on an update and never slow checkout down.

For almost every store, that's a good deal.

Before your upgrade date

Migration checklist

Older store with custom scripts? Work through these in order. It takes an afternoon.

The easy button

Want to do it in one app?

Built for Shopify · 5.0 ★

Oxify Cart Drawer & Upsells

Full disclosure: this is our app. We built it because the usual answer here is installing four separate tools — one for the upsell, one for the blocks, one for gifts, one for the cart. Oxify covers the whole setup in one app, built on Checkout Extensibility, so it's ready for the 2026 upgrade the day you install it.

View Oxify on the Shopify App Store →

Comparing options? Read our honest ranking of the best post-purchase upsell apps — competitors included. App details verified on the App Store listing, 28 July 2026.

Questions, answered

Thank you page customization FAQ

Where do I customize the Shopify thank you page in 2026? +

Go to Settings → Checkout in your Shopify admin. In the Configurations section, click Edit on your checkout configuration. That opens the checkout and accounts editor. Use the page selector menu at the top and choose Thank you, then add app blocks under Sections. The one-click upsell is not in this editor — it is set in Settings → Checkout → Post-purchase page.

Can I still paste code into Additional Scripts? +

No, and this is where most guides go wrong. Shopify made the Additional Scripts box view-only on 28 August 2025. You can read what is in it, but you cannot edit it, and on the new checkout it does not run. If a tutorial tells you to paste code there, it was written before the change.

When exactly is the deadline? +

Shopify Plus stores had to move by 28 August 2025. Every non-Plus plan has until 26 August 2026. Automatic upgrades began in January 2026, so your store may be switched over before the deadline without you picking the date.

What happens to my old customizations when the store upgrades? +

They are replaced. Shopify's upgrade guide says your existing Thank you and Order status pages, and any customizations on them, are replaced with the new versions. Copy the contents of your Additional Scripts box into a note now, because after the upgrade you cannot get it back.

Do I need Shopify Plus to customize the thank you page? +

No. Merchants on Basic and above can add app blocks to the Thank you and Order status pages, and one-click post-purchase offers work on every plan. Plus is only needed to customize the checkout page itself and to run offers inside checkout.

Is the thank you page the same as the order status page? +

No. They are two separate pages in the page selector menu, with separate blocks. The thank you page is the confirmation screen shown once, right after payment. The order status page is what the buyer returns to later to check tracking. A block added to one does not appear on the other.

Why is my thank you page upsell not showing? +

Almost always the payment method. Shopify does not show post-purchase offers when the order was paid with an accelerated wallet such as Shop Pay, Apple Pay or Google Pay, or with local and installment payment methods like Klarna, Affirm or Afterpay. Offers are also skipped for orders containing subscription products, gift cards, duties or multiple currencies. Since Shop Pay is one of the most used buttons in Shopify checkout, this catches a lot of stores by surprise.

Can I run two post-purchase upsell apps at once? +

No. Shopify lets only one checkout app add post-purchase features at a time, and you choose it in Settings → Checkout → Post-purchase page. Installing a second upsell app changes nothing until you switch the selection. You can still use blocks from several different apps on the thank you page itself.

Will these blocks slow down my checkout? +

No. They load after payment is taken, on Shopify's own hosted pages, so they cannot affect your checkout speed or your checkout conversion rate. Removing merchant scripts from checkout was a big part of why Shopify made this change.

What can I not customize on these pages? +

Two limits catch people out. Customizations per market are not supported on the Thank you and Order status pages, so you cannot show a different layout to a different country. You also cannot hide individual items inside a bundle. Beyond that, blocks sit in defined slots and follow your brand settings, so you get order and styling control rather than pixel-level control.

Do the 10-minute version today.

Copy your Additional Scripts into a note. Open the editor. Add one block. That's it — you're ahead of the deadline and ahead of most stores.

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Post Purchase Team. We build Oxify Cart Drawer & Upsells — one-click post-purchase offers, thank-you-page blocks, a cart drawer and a free-gift, BOGO and volume-discount engine, all in one app built on Shopify Checkout Extensibility. We support merchants through this exact migration every week, which is where the Shop Pay and subscription gotchas in this guide came from. Every date, menu path and limitation here was checked against Shopify's Help Center in July 2026 — not copied from other blogs, several of which are still giving instructions that no longer work. We mention our own app; the advice holds whether you use it or not.