“How do test carts get checked?”

A test cart is a cart you priced in the Simulator and saved. It’s priced again on a schedule, and compared with the price it was saved with.

Get notified: Coming soon

When they’re checked

  • Free: once a week, at the check hour. Up to 2 test carts.
  • Pro: every day at the check hour, and 10 minutes after a discount, shipping or market change. Up to 25.
  • Business: every hour, and 10 minutes after a store change. Up to 100, each in up to 10 countries.

The check hour is 06:00 in your store’s timezone; change it with Check time in Settings → Checks. Re-check after store changes is there too. You can re-run any time.

What the statuses mean

  • OK: the same result as expected. “FX” next to it: the cart is in another currency and moved less than 1% with the exchange rate, and nothing else changed.
  • Changed: the total, the discounts applied, the shipping options or a shipping price differ from the expected result, or checkout can’t sell the cart any more (stock, no shipping rate).
  • Error: the cart couldn’t be priced, for example because a product was deleted. Shopify’s message is shown.

On the Test carts page

  • Every test cart with its status, last run and total; changed ones first. Filters: All, Changed, Errors, Not checked.
  • Re-run all and New test cart.
  • Open a test cart for Re-run, Accept new result (when it changed: the new price becomes the expected one), Mute 7 days and Delete.
  • Under the table, “Price changes”: every change across your test carts, newest first, with its likely cause and whether it’s open, accepted or back to expected.

On a smaller plan

Your test carts are kept. The oldest ones, up to the plan’s limit, are checked and can be re-run; the rest are shown as not checked until you move up again.

Next: alerts by email and Slack.

Answer the next one with an X-ray.

  1. Install on Shopify

    Add Checkout X-Ray from the Shopify App Store. It opens in your Shopify admin, on the Free plan.

  2. Build the customer’s cart

    Open the Simulator. Pick the products, type the code they used and the country it ships to, then calculate the price.

  3. Read the answer

    The price X-ray shows each layer, and every code that wasn't applied gets a sentence saying why. Save it as a test cart to have it checked again.

Checkout X-Ray isn’t on the Shopify App Store yet. Leave your email and we’ll tell you the day it is.

A confirmation now, one email when the app is listed, then we delete your address (privacy policy).

X-ray image of a shopping bag with a snowboard, ski wax, a price tag and a broken SUMMER20 coupon.