First-timer. 14th order. $600 cart. Shipping to Alaska. All four see the same checkout on most Shopify stores.

BFCM prep: ☐ Ads ☐ Inventory ☐ Email flows ☐ The checkout, which will process every single one of those orders

Lots of brands have 99% of their shoppers pick standard shipping, because nothing between standard and express is there (or worth choosing). It's shipping revenue just waiting for you to take it.

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Sales & holidays fill your store with one-time buyers. You pay to acquire them, they buy one gift, and they're gone by July. The cheapest customer to grow is the one already in the cart. Subscription Upsell puts subscribe-and-save in checkout.

A brand we work with was promising 4-7 day delivery. Their own carrier data says close zones arrive in 2-5. They were under-promising by two days and paying for it at checkout. The cheapest conversion lift in DTC is telling the truth about how fast you *already are*

Brands spend millions getting shoppers to the store. And pennies on the 60 seconds where money actually changes hands. Checkout is the highest-leverage real estate you own. Most treat it like plumbing.

DTC brands lose 30-50% of shoppers at the final step. That number has barely moved in a decade. Every layer of commerce got optimized to death except the one where the dollar actually moves.

"PDQ unlocked incredible CRO wins with a material impact on our revenue per user and profitability." "Incredible CRO wins" is, frankly, our middle name. Well not legally you get the idea.

...and some reviews are short and sweet like this one!

Sunday shoppers: 77.9% CVR, $136 AOV. Tuesday: 76.2% CVR, $128 AOV. Same store + inventory. Different day, different person. Sunday is browse-with-intent. Tuesday is distracted and tight. One checkout for both leaves money on the table.

"Incredible product, just stocked up." 671 reviews. 4.5 stars. Sitting right next to the item in the cart. Your customer already trusts other customers more than your copy. So we put the reviews where the decision happens.

One shirt is $19.99. The 3-pack is $49.99. One tap to swap up, no going back to the product page. Bundle offers in checkout turn "I'll grab one" into "actually, give me three." Higher AOV without spending another cent on ads.

"Only 7 left." "Ships today if you order in 1h 47m." "28 sold in 2 hrs." People don't act because something's good. They act because it's about to be gone. Real-time scarcity and shipping-cutoff badges, right in the cart. Pressure, applied politely.

The best time to sell someone is right after they've already bought. Card's out, guard's down, dopamine's up. Post-purchase offers let you drop a one-click upsell after checkout. No re-entering payment. Add a timer and watch the "maybe later" turn into "fine, yes."

Your A/B tests aren't wrong. You're just averaging Tuesday-morning re-uppers with Saturday afternoon basket-builders. For example, 1 brand tested 3 free shipping thresholds. $200 won, but on weekends only. Weekdays hated it. That's why we built Time-of-Day Segmentation.

+1 billion checkouts in. Here's what it's taught us: >> Checkout is a trust moment, not a form >> Shipping is a huge lever in ecom >> Accuracy beats optimism >> AOV and CVR aren't enemies >> The best brands are always testing

We recently launched MAXX Chat. Ask anything about your checkout, get an answer in seconds, backed by your store's data and benchmarks from hundreds of leading brands.

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