Shopify checkout is built for cards. For cash on delivery it adds screens that exist only for card payment. A step-by-step comparison, and when the standard checkout still wins.

What really changes when you add a second cash on delivery market: address format, phone validation, language, currency and courier. Plus the order to add markets in.

If your store sells into a market where customers pay when the box arrives rather than at checkout, you’ve probably already typed “shopify cash on delivery” into Google and landed