Activation Rules

Activation Rules:

Activation rules are a powerful feature that lets you create additional conditions to control when a limit is active. The limit will only be active if all the specified conditions are met.

These rules can be combined using "AND" or "OR" logic to provide highly customizable limitations based on various conditions.

Activation rules are part of the Gatekeeper plan. Standard rules work in your cart and at checkout. Checkout rules read what the customer enters at checkout (the shipping address and the selected delivery), so they only apply to strict limits, which Shopify checks itself at checkout. They're available on every Shopify plan.

Overview

Each rule has three key parts:

• Type: Defines the kind of rule

Condition:
Sets the criteria that must be met.

• Select Limit
• Is Equal To
• Is Not Equal To
• Contains
• Does Not Contain
• Starts With
• Is Greater Than
• Is Less Than
• Is Any Of / Is None Of

Value:
Specifies the parameter against which the condition is tested.

• Is Respected / Is Not Respected
• Date Field
• Open Field
• Currencies
• Countries
• Shipping Type

Basic Limit Types

Limit

The Limit Type rule is one of the most powerful rules in the Quantity Limit App. It allows you to create limits that activate based on other items in the cart, through another limit: "limit X is respected" or "is not respected".

Customer Tag

Customer tags can be used to target specific segments of your customer base.

Is Not Equal To and Does Not Contain also hold for guests and for customers without tags: they don't have the tag.

On a strict limit (see Strict Limits: What They Can't Check):

• only Is Equal To and Is Not Equal To can be strict;
• at checkout, a customer who doesn't sign in but enters the email of a customer who has the tag is checked as that customer: Shopify links the checkout to them.

Date

Date rules can be used to make a limit active during a specific period. By combining "AND" or "OR" logic you can make the limit active for multiple period.

A strict limit applies date rules to the minute, as your cart does. It can check only a few different dates, and can't check date rules together with shipping rules other than the Shipping Country Code. For a period that starts and ends on whole days, use the limit's Activation Dates (Start Date and End Date, in its general settings) instead: a strict limit checks them with any other rule, and they don't count among its dates.

Country

Country rules activate a limit based on the country the customer shops from: the country selected in your store's country selector. It works in your cart and at checkout, and replaces the deprecated Market rule.

To activate a limit on the shipping address instead, use the Shipping Country Code checkout rule.

Currency

Limitations can be applied based on the currency being used.

Checkout Rules (Strict Limits Only)

These rules read what the customer enters at checkout. They apply to strict limits once the customer has entered that information: the shipping address, or the selected delivery option. Before that, they count as not met.

Shipping Address Rules

Shipping address rules target customers based on the shipping address they enter at checkout. Each is a separate rule type: Shipping Country Code, Shipping City, Shipping Province Code, Shipping Zip, Shipping Address, Shipping Address 2 and Shipping Address Company. They all take the same conditions.

Shipping Method Title

Shipping method title rule can be used to activate a limit based on the selected shipping method.

Shipping Type

Shipping type rule can be used to activate a limit based on the type of selected shipping method.

Shipping Cost

Shipping cost can be used to activate a limit based on the cost of selected shipping method.

Shipping Cost After Discount

Shipping cost after discount can be used to activate a limit based on the cost after discount of selected shipping method.

Deprecated Rules

• Payment Type, Discount Code and Gift Cards Amount: Shopify's checkout rules can't read them. Only MinCart's checkout extension ever applied them, and Shopify has deprecated the way checkout extensions block checkout, so they stop when it ends.
• Market: Shopify is removing the market from what checkout rules can read. Replace it with the Country rule. MinCart doesn't convert market rules for you.

Market

This rule type can be used to target specific Shopify markets.

Payment Type

Payment type rules can be used to activate a limit based on the type of the selected payment method. For example you could create a limit only for the users that selects a "Payment on delivery" payment method.

Discount Code

Discount code rules can be used to activate a limit based on the discount codes entered by the user in the checkout.

Gift Cards Amount

Gift cards amount rules can be used to activate a limit based on the total amount used by gift cards in the checkout.

Updated on: 19/10/2026