Shopify Plus is gaining native same-order ship-and-pickup, so the obvious question is whether a BOPIS app is still worth it. The honest answer: native handles the split for all-shippable carts, but it gives you no per-store stock, no in-cart store picker, no store-lock, and no can’t-ship support. On Plus you keep an app for the loop, not the split.
If you’ve seen the native preview and wondered what it removes from your shopping list, this is the decision guide — what the feature does, the four things it leaves on the table, and how the two fit together on Plus.
What native “ship and pickup in one order” does
Until now, a Shopify order resolved to a single delivery method. A shopper who wanted one item shipped and another collected had to place two orders, or hit a wall at checkout. We unpack the mechanics in Shopify ship and pickup in one order; here’s the short version.
The feature preview changes the order structure. The shopper picks shipping or pickup per item in one checkout, and Shopify keeps a single order split internally into a shipping fulfillment and a pickup fulfillment. Per Shopify’s changelog, it’s a Plus and Enterprise feature preview that auto-releases to eligible checkouts in July 2027 — opt-in through Feature Test Drive until then.
So if you’re on Plus, this is good news: the same-order mix you used to lose now checks out clean. The catch is what “native handles the split” actually means, and where it stops.
What native does NOT do (the three gaps)
Native does one job — order structure. It leaves the parts a multi-location shopper actually touches untouched.
No real-time per-store stock. Native won’t tell a shopper that the downtown store has the item and the mall store sold out this morning. It works from your overall delivery configuration, not a live, per-store availability view the shopper can read in the cart.
No in-cart store picker. There’s no component that lists your stores, sorts them by distance, and lets the shopper choose where to collect. The buyer picks a method per item — ship or pick up — not a store.
No store-lock. Because there’s no store choice, there’s nothing to lock. A shopper can land on a store that can’t actually stage their order, and native has no ceiling to stop it.
So what do you keep an app FOR on Plus?
For the loop. Here’s the split between what native covers and what an app adds.
| Native ship + pickup (Plus preview) | Multi-location BOPIS app | |
|---|---|---|
| Check out a mixed pickup + shipping cart | Preview (Plus/Enterprise) | Yes, every plan |
| Each store’s own stock, shown to shoppers | No | Yes |
| In-cart store picker (priority + distance) | No | Yes |
| Chosen store locks at checkout | No | Yes |
| Per-location capacity limits | No | Yes |
The pattern: native owns how the order is built once methods are chosen; the app owns whether the shopper can find a store that has the item and have that choice stick. Those don’t overlap. For the shopper-facing half — see which store has it, pick where to collect, and lock that store into checkout — native simply isn’t in the picture.
Can you ride the native split and keep the app?
Yes, and on Plus this is the clean setup. BopiSafe has a mode that steps aside from splitting and lets Shopify’s native pickup-mix do the split for all-shippable carts, while BopiSafe keeps running the part native skips: per-store stock, the in-cart store picker, and store-lock.
One honest dependency — this only works where your store has Shopify’s native pickup-mix available to it. Shopify owns the native split; BopiSafe rides it where you’ve got it and supplies the multi-location loop around it. You don’t pick between the two. You get the native split and the buy experience that makes a multi-location store worth running.
Where your store doesn’t have it, the app carries the whole job. That’s the non-Plus BOPIS setup.
The demand behind the decision
This isn’t a niche edge case you can wave off. US buy-online-pickup-in-store sales reached an estimated $154.3 billion in 2025, about 10.5% of e-commerce, and are projected to hit $177.9 billion in 2026, per Capital One Shopping research. The same research found 77% of consumers use pickup partly to see the item before they take it home.
That last number is the whole argument. Shoppers come for pickup to confirm the right store has the right item — which is precisely what the native split doesn’t show them. The order-structure change is real and useful on Plus; it just isn’t the part the shopper engages with.
The bottom line for Plus merchants
Native ship-and-pickup is worth turning on if you’re eligible and you ship — it makes the all-shippable mixed order cleaner. It does not retire your BOPIS app, because it doesn’t do per-store stock, the store picker, store-lock, or capacity. On Plus you run an app for the loop and let native handle the split underneath it.
Written by the BopiSafe team — we build BOPIS infrastructure for Shopify merchants.
Next steps
- On Plus and want the native split plus the multi-location loop? Read the store picker guide and how store-lock works at checkout
- Want the native preview itself explained first? Start with Shopify ship and pickup in one order
- Not on Plus? See the non-Plus BOPIS setup
- Or install BopiSafe to give shoppers per-store stock and a store picker on any plan