- Short answer
- Shops still on the Liquid receipt editor migrate automatically on January 1, 2027; some complex POS Pro customizations arrive flagged for rebuilding.
- Deadline
- Shopify gives a customized Liquid receipt template until January 1, 2027 to move to the new editor.
- Who it applies to
- POS Pro locations only. The code editor is unavailable at POS locations in Italy and France.
- Moves by itself
- Shopify names text blocks, location-specific content, and standard return and exchange formatting as examples.
- Does not move
- Anything that can't be converted automatically is flagged for you to rebuild in the visual editor.
- One-way door
- After you activate the visual editor, the code editor is removed and can't be restored.
- Undocumented
- No page we have found says what a receipt prints on January 2 if flagged parts were never rebuilt.
- As of
- Shopify changelog and the Help Center printed-receipts pages, read September 2, 2026.
What Shopify migrates automatically, and what it flags
The migration happens with or without you. If your shop uses a customized Liquid receipt template, you have until January 1, 2027 to move to the new editor, and any shop still on Liquid on that date is migrated to the new format automatically. The receipt code editor is available only at locations on the Shopify POS Pro subscription, and that editor is unavailable at POS locations in Italy and France.
Customizations that can be reliably translated — such as text blocks, location-specific content, and standard return and exchange formatting — are migrated automatically.
Anything else becomes your work: customizations that can't be converted automatically are flagged for you to rebuild in the visual editor. Shopify warns that with complex Liquid customizations, some might not migrate automatically and you must migrate them manually.
What you lose if you switch to the visual editor yourself
The code editor is frozen, not yet gone: its templates no longer receive updates, and properties added after June 1, 2026 are only available in the visual editor. You can still switch between the code editor and the receipt visual editor until you activate the visual editor in your Point of Sale channel, or until the January 1, 2027 deadline. Your Liquid stays readable until whichever comes first.
Activation is the half you cannot undo. After you activate the visual editor for your store, the code editor is removed and can't be restored. Copy your Liquid somewhere of your own first.
What prints on January 2 if flagged parts are never rebuilt?
No page we have found says what a receipt prints on January 2, 2027 if its flagged customizations were never rebuilt — on September 2, 2026 we looked for exactly that across the changelog post, the migration and code-editor pages, the rest of the Help Center's Printed receipts section, and the POS product page.
You do not have to find out: review and rebuild every flagged part in the visual editor, and preview each receipt type before you activate.
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