Conditional Order Limits on Shopify

Advanced rules

Advanced Rules add conditions to a limit, so it applies only when those conditions match. Everything else works like a Simple limit. It is a Premium feature with its own builder.

Applies to: Premium plan
Conditional limits by country, customer, date or cart contents
Doesn't apply to: Basic plan
Unconditional limits — use Simple Order Limit

Limit should always apply? Simple Order Limit is easier to reason about

A Simple limit applies to everyone. Advanced Rules add conditions — the limit only applies when they match.

What you can condition on

Group	Examples
Cart value	Subtotal or total amount thresholds
Customer	Status, and location checks
Location	Country, country lists, province or state codes
Products	Specific items being in the cart
Per-product	Quantity checks per product or variant
Dates	Date after, date before

Full list in conditions.

How a rule is put together

Conditions — when this rule should apply
Match type — whether all conditions must match, or any
Actions — the limit to apply when it does match
Message — what a blocked customer sees, with optional translations

When to reach for it

Situation	Why Simple will not do
Wholesale exempt from a retail cap	The cap must apply to some customers only
Minimum order only in one market	The threshold varies by country
Cap during a sale, not afterwards	Date-bounded
Different limits per product group	Depends on cart contents

In this section

Frequently asked

When do I actually need this?

When the same limit should apply to some orders and not others — wholesale exempt from a retail cap, a minimum only in one market, a cap only during a sale.

Can I mix Simple and Advanced rules?

Yes. They coexist, and a cart must satisfy every enabled rule that applies to it.

Is it harder to debug?

Yes, which is the honest reason to stay on Simple until you need it. An unconditional limit either fires or it does not; a conditional one has a second thing to check.