Advanced Cash on Delivery shut down: rebuilding your COD setup in 2026
Updated · ACOD (E-TRADE PARTNER)
Shopify's official “Advanced Cash on Delivery” app — the free India-only tool many stores used for COD fees and availability windows — is no longer available, and old tutorials pointing to it are dead ends. Its job now belongs to Shopify Functions apps: the manual COD payment method (native Shopify) plus a fee-and-rules app. Here's the feature-by-feature replacement map.
What Advanced COD did, and what replaces it
| Advanced Cash on Delivery feature | 2026 replacement |
|---|---|
| Enable COD as a payment option (India) | Native: Settings → Payments → Manual payment methods → Cash on Delivery — all countries, no app needed |
| Additional COD fee | A dedicated COD shipping rate linked to the payment method via a Functions app like ACOD — per-zone amounts, undodgeable |
| Restrict COD by order value | Min/max order-value conditions in a payment customization |
| Serviceability / pincode control | Pin-code rules with prefix matching — cleaner than the CSV uploads of the old era |
| COD-specific shipping behavior | Two-way link between COD and specific shipping rates — beyond what the official app did |
Why the replacements are actually better
The official app predated Shopify Functions and worked only for Indian stores. Functions-based payment and delivery customizations run natively inside checkout on every plan and every country, support far richer conditions (products, collections, customer tags, discounts, weight, B2B), and don't depend on a single official app's roadmap — the reason the shutdown hurt in the first place. The one thing you lose is “free”: the official app cost nothing, while Functions rule apps are typically $5–10/month (the honest field guide, including the free options and their trade-offs).
The 15-minute rebuild
- Confirm the manual Cash on Delivery payment method is active (it's independent of the dead app).
- Create your COD fee rate(s) in Settings → Shipping and delivery (quick start).
- Install a rules app (ours: ACOD, $4.99–9.99/month, 7-day trial) and link the rates.
- Re-create your old restrictions: order-value caps, pincode lists (prefixes make old CSV lists dramatically shorter), and any product exclusions.
- Verify with testing mode, then go live.
Rebuild your COD setup on Functions
Fees, pincode prefixes, value caps and more — everything the official app did and the things it couldn't, live in 15 minutes.
Install ACOD on Shopify — 7-day free trialFrequently asked questions
›Why was Advanced Cash on Delivery shut down?
Shopify retired the standalone official app as its checkout stack moved to Shopify Functions; COD customization is now served by native manual payment methods plus Functions-based apps rather than a single official tool.
›Do I still have COD without the app?
Yes — the Cash on Delivery manual payment method is native Shopify and unaffected. What you lost is the fee and the restriction rules, which any Functions-based COD rules app rebuilds.
›Is there a free replacement for Advanced Cash on Delivery?
Payflow has a free single-rule tier and Snap COD is free (3.2★ — test carefully). Paid specialists like ACOD ($4.99+) or Releasit (free to 60 COD orders/month, then $9.99+) are the mainstream replacements.