Markets · USD
Selling to US shoppers on Shopify
A US shopper meets two late numbers rather than one: shipping and sales tax. That makes the cart the place where expectations are set, and a store that shows an estimate before checkout is doing something its competitors mostly are not.
How prices are shown
Tax-exclusive: sales tax is added at checkout and varies by destination, so the final total is not knowable on the product page.
Returns
No federal right to cancel an online order — the returns policy a store publishes is the policy, which makes stating it clearly more important, not less.
Payment methods shoppers expect
Shop Pay · Apple Pay · Google Pay · PayPal · Affirm · Card
Who delivers
USPS · UPS · FedEx
What this changes about the checks
Every store gets the same list. These are the ones that carry more weight here than they would elsewhere.
- C1Shipping cost first appears at checkout
Here, tax and shipping both arrive late, so the cart carries more weight than in tax-inclusive markets.
- C6Trust signals absent at cart
Here, with no statutory cancellation right, a visible returns line is doing real reassurance work.
- C4Express checkout buttons missing or below the fold on mobile cart
Here, express wallets are the highest-adopted of any market, and hiding them below the fold wastes that.
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