Payment methods suited to the customer's country/region are enabled automatically and reordered to maximize the chance of a purchase. Merchants are freed from the work of handling each new payment method as it's added.
You enable each country's payment methods one by one yourself. Whenever a new method (such as BLIK) appears, you have to handle it each time. The merchant also decides the order.
Payment methods suited to the customer's region turn on automatically. The display order is automatically optimized by likelihood of a completed purchase. New methods are added automatically too.
You'll keep handling granular controls like "accept Visa only" yourself.
Cash on delivery, custom payment apps, and gift cards work as before.
App-based versions of Klarna and the like aren't covered by automatic activation.
| Item | Traditional (manual) | Managed Payment Methods |
|---|---|---|
| Activating payments | Manual Turn on/off per region | Automatic Turned on automatically based on region |
| Display order | Fixed Set by the merchant | Optimized Reordered by likelihood of purchase |
| Adding new payment methods | Manual each time | Added automatically |
| Disabled payment methods | You need to re-enable them yourself | Shopify won't turn them back on (it remembers your choice) |
| Additional cost | — | Free Same fees |
Requires Shopify's official payment processor to be active. Not available for stores that exclusively use third-party payment providers.
You need to enable "Shopify Network Intelligence" in your privacy settings. Turning it OFF automatically disables Managed as well.
From "Settings" in the bottom-left of the admin, go to "Payments."
Turning on the toggle brings up a confirmation dialog.
This starts automatic optimization. From then on, you can leave it alone.
Optimizations you couldn't build from your own store's data alone come down as cross-Shopify signals. For merchants, it feels closer to "choosing and plugging in a trained model."
Logic built in the Checkout editor or with Checkout UI Extensions (such as pinning a specific payment method) keeps working as-is. The layout layer and the "payment selection layer" are separated.
Only the operational settings in the admin are described. How it behaves with the Admin GraphQL API or Webhooks needs separate verification. If you want to automate it, check in a sandbox beforehand.
Shopify handles automatically turning new payment methods ON. But anything switched OFF is never turned back ON = explicit OFF is a safe control point.
Example: on a store that has a third-party Klarna app installed, the Shopify Payments version of Klarna won't auto-enable.When consolidating during a replatforming project, the order of uninstalling the third-party app first and then turning Managed ONis required.