Understanding Shopify's Payment Customization Limitation

Navigating Shopify's Tag Limitation: A Guide for Merchants - Discover practical solutions for managing the 100-tag limit in payment customizations. This guide provides insights and strategies to optimize your Shopify store's payment setup, maintaining both performance and customer satisfaction.

What's the Limitation?

In your Shopify store, when setting up payment customizations, you may encounter a limitation regarding the number of product tags, customer tags, or collections you can include. Specifically, Shopify restricts each payment customization to handle no more than 100 tags or collections. This is a built-in limitation that ensures optimal performance and stability of the platform.

Why This Limitation Exists?

Shopify aims to provide a smooth and efficient experience for both merchants and customers. Handling a large number of tags or collections within a single payment customization can lead to performance issues, hence the limitation.

How to Identify the Issue?

If you try to save a payment customization with more than 100 tags or collections, you'll encounter an error message. This message is displayed through a modal in your Shopify admin area, clearly indicating the nature of the error and the current count of your tags or collections.

What Can You Do?

Option 1: Create Another Payment Customization

  • Split Tags/Collections: Divide your product tags, customer tags, or collections into groups, each with less than 100 items.
  • Create New Customizations: Set up additional payment customizations for these groups. This way, you can manage more tags or collections without exceeding the limit per customization.

Option 2: Modify Existing Customizations

  • Review Current Tags/Collections: Analyze your existing payment customizations and identify tags or collections that are less critical or seldom used.
  • Remove Unnecessary Items: Delete tags or collections that are not essential, making room for more important ones within the 100-item limit.

Need More Help?

If you're finding it difficult to manage this limitation or have any other queries related to payment customizations on Shopify, don't hesitate to reach out for support. Our team is always here to assist you in optimizing your Shopify experience.


Remember, managing your payment customizations efficiently can significantly impact the checkout experience for your customers. Keep your customizations organized and within Shopify's guidelines for the best results.