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Guides on Shopify order limits: minimum order quantity, order value, weight and pack sizes.
Order limits
Weight limits: keeping carts inside your carrier's ceiling
A cart that exceeds your heaviest shipping tier does not warn you — it shows the customer a shipping error at checkout. Weight rules are how you stop that before it happens.
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Order limits
Limiting quantity per customer: per order vs per customer
These sound like the same rule and are not. One caps a basket, the other caps a person over time — and only one of them survives a determined buyer opening a second tab.
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Enforcement
Do order limits apply to draft orders?
Since December 2024, yes — validation runs in the draft orders admin and at checkout. There is also a deliberate override, which is exactly what you want for a phone order.
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Order limits
Selling in case packs on Shopify without breaking the carton
If stock arrives boxed in twelves, an order for seven costs you a broken carton and five orphaned units. Increment rules are the fix — here is where Shopify has them and where it does not.
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Order limits
Minimum order quantity or minimum order value? How to choose
Both stop unprofitable orders. They fail in different ways, and picking the wrong one either shreds your margin or your conversion rate.
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Enforcement
You don't need Shopify Plus to enforce order limits at checkout
A lot of guides still tell merchants that server-side checkout validation is a Shopify Plus feature. Shopify's own changelog says otherwise, and has since January 2024.
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