If you sell to customers in Europe, there's a new legal requirement kicking in on June 19, 2026. EU Directive 2023/2673 requires your online store to have a clearly visible withdrawal button - a way for EU buyers to exercise their existing 14-day right to change their mind about a purchase (the "cooling-off period"). There is more information here: Shopify & EU right of withdrawl.
This IS NOT optional. Stores selling into the EU that don't comply risk legal warnings, fines of up to 4% of annual turnover, and an automatic extension of the withdrawal period to 12 months and 14 days.
The good news: There are apps in the Shopify app store which will help you do this. We can make sure it's properly enabled and configured on your store.
We're offering a fast-turnaround EU Compliance Setup - contact us if you want to talk about what is included
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You haven't. What actually happened is simpler, and luckily easier to fix. You had a discount code sitting in your Shopify account called "FREE", or something equally easy to guess. Someone at checkout has just ... typed it in. And it worked.
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From June 3 2026, Shopify is making some small changes to the information it asks your customers for when they check out. Nothing big, but it's worth knowing about so there are no surprises.
