How to create a Vendor Limit in MinCart

The Vendor Limit Setting is ideal if you have completed the vendor field for your products. This feature allows you to set both minimum and maximum limits for specific vendors, giving you greater control over your inventory and helping to drive your brand’s growth.

In this document, we will walk you through how to create product limitations, explain what each field means, and show you how to use them to your advantage.

**Start by selecting the Vendor Limit. **

Next add a Limit Name. This should be a unique name that helps you easily identify the purpose of the limit. It’s for your reference only and will not be visible to the public.

Activation Dates allow you to choose when the limitations will take effect. You can select a date range to make the limit active only during that period. If you select just one date, the limit will remain active indefinitely starting from that date.

Enforce on the storefront decides what the limit does to your customers: when on, it blocks carts that don't respect its limits; when off, it blocks nothing but can still be used as an activation rule by your other limits. The Status dropdown above the limit name decides whether the limit reaches your customers at all: Live limits apply to your customers, Draft limits never do, so you can test them on your own cart with Preview on my store before switching them to Live (see the Preview Mode article).

The Limit Audience feature lets you segment who will be affected by the limit you’ve created. You can choose between Customer, Non-Customer, or Everyone. A Customer refers to a user with a registered account. This allows you to apply different limitations based on user type.

The Tags Exclusion feature allows for more precise targeting within your chosen Limit Target. For example, you can set a limit for everyone, but only users with a specific tag on their account will trigger the limitation.

Here’s how it works:

• If the target is Everyone, the tag will exclude customers with these tags.
• If the target is Customer, only customers with these tags will be impacted by the limit.

To use this feature, enter a comma-separated list of customer tags. Leave the field blank if you want the limit to apply to everyone.

In the Settings section, you will define your limits and specify which items will be affected by these limits.

Select Vendor is where you choose the vendor(s) that fall under your vendor limit. In this section, you also have Target Rules, which enable you to target specific items based on text conditions. If any of the conditions are met, the item will be affected by the limit.

Target rules can be set based on the Vendor.

You can use conditions such as is equal to, is not equal to, contains, does not contain, starts with, and ends with. This functionality allows you to target multiple products efficiently without having to add them individually.

Next, you will define how the limitation works by selecting one of the following options:

• By Total Price: Set limits based on the total price of items in the cart.
• By Quantity: Set limits based on the quantity of items in the cart.
• By Resource: set a limit on the number of selected resources in the cart. For instance, you can now set a limit on the number of different collections in your cart.
• By Weight: Set limits based on the total weight of items in the cart.

Choose the option that best fits your needs for applying the limitation.

Force Limit is a powerful feature with the following options:

• Disabled: The limit will only apply if the targeted items are present in the cart.
• Enabled: The limit will be enforced even if the targeted items are not currently in the cart.

Warning: When enabled, the variable {{item}} for texts will not be available for items that are not in the cart. Make sure to customize your limit texts to account for this.

Activation Rules are like superpowers when it comes to targeting individuals based on specific characteristics.

Standard activation rules work in your cart and at checkout: Limit, Date, Customer Tag, Country and Currency. Checkout activation rules read what the customer enters at checkout, so they only apply to strict limits, on every Shopify plan:

• Shipping Country Code
• Shipping City
• Shipping Province Code
• Shipping Zip
• Shipping Address / Address 2
• Shipping Company
• Shipping Type
• Shipping Method Title
• Shipping Cost / Shipping Cost After Discount

These advanced rules give you greater flexibility to target your audience more precisely. The Market, Payment Type, Discount Code and Gift Card Amount rules are deprecated by Shopify: existing ones keep working for now, but they can't be added any more, and Shopify hasn't said when they'll stop working, so don't rely on them. Replace Market rules with the Country rule. See Activation Rules.

Updated on: 19/10/2026