Accelerated checkout is a feature that allows customers to quickly and easily complete their purchases on your Rebuy store. By enabling this feature, you can improve the overall shopping experience for your customers and potentially increase your sales. In this article, we will guide you through the steps to enable accelerated checkout in the Rebuy admin portal.
What is Accelerated Checkout (Shopify Definition)?
Accelerated or express checkouts save customer payment and shipping information so that returning customers can more quickly complete payment for their orders. When a customer returns to a store that offers an accelerated checkout method, their information is automatically filled in at checkout.
Some accelerated checkout methods can use dynamic checkout buttons on product pages. By using dynamic checkout buttons, customers can skip the cart and go directly to the checkout from the product page, using the selected accelerated checkout method. Learn how to show dynamic checkout buttons on your online store.
You can activate accelerated checkout buttons on your Shopify checkout for Shop Pay and for other payment providers that offer the options, including Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, and PayPal. To learn more about PayPal's accelerated checkout options, refer to supported PayPal providers.
According to Shopify, Shop Pay increases checkout speed by 4x and checkouts going through Shop Pay have an average checkout-to-order rate of 1.72x times higher than those going through regular checkouts, meaning more Revenue for your store!
If you sell subscription products, then accelerated payment methods and wallets such as Apple Pay, PayPal Express, Shop Pay, and Google Pay can be used at some stores.
Prerequisites
Accelerated Payment methods are currently available if you are using our Smart Cart. To set up your Smart Cart, view this help doc.
How to Enable Accelerated Checkout in Smart Cart
Navigating to the Theme Code to apply Accelerated Checkout code:
Log into Shopify Admin:
Go to the Shopify admin portal and log in.
Navigate to Theme Settings:
From the Shopify admin, go to "Online Store" > "Themes."
Choose the theme you want to add accelerated checkout buttons to.
Access Theme Code:
Click the "elipsis" button next to the theme.
Select "Edit code" from the dropdown menu.
Locate the
theme.liquidfile in the list of theme files.
Once you are here, then move onto implementing the code snippet steps below.
Adding the Accelerated Checkout code snippet to the theme files:
Copy the code snippet below.
Go back to the theme editor in your Shopify admin:
Click "Actions" > "Edit code" for your selected theme.
Locate the
theme.liquidfile:Look for
theme.liquidin the list of theme files.
Paste the code snippet:
Place the code just before the closing
</body>tag.Save your changes.
Code Snippet to copy:
{% if additional_checkout_buttons %}
<style>.additional-checkout-buttons {display: none; width: 100%;}</style>
<div class="additional-checkout-buttons additional-checkout-buttons--vertical">
{{ content_for_additional_checkout_buttons }}
</div>
{% endif %}
Enabling Accelerated Checkout in Smart Cart
The final step is to activate the accelerated checkout in Smart Cart and adjust any advanced settings as needed. By turning on this toggle after inserting the code snippets provided earlier, Smart Cart will be instructed to display the buttons for your cart.
Go to the Smart Cart settings in the Rebuy Admin.
Access the "Checkout Area" section.
Enable "Accelerated Checkout" by toggling it on.
Don't forget to save your changes.
Advanced Settings
Column Count
The number of buttons displayed on Shopify may differ based on the customer's device or browser (for example, Apple Pay will not be displayed on an Android device). For this reason, we recommend leaving this option set to Automatic unless you are certain of the number of buttons that will be displayed on Shopify.
Previewer Button Count
This option is for PREVIEWING ONLY and will not affect the number of buttons on the storefront. To learn more about enabling Accelerated Checkout providers on your Shopify store, view Shopify's documentation.
That's it! You have now successfully enabled the Accelerated Checkout feature on the Smart Cart. You can navigate to your store to see the Accelerated Checkout in action. We also have a Shop Pay option that can be enabled for Smart Cart. You can find the directions on how to accomplish that in this article.