Help your customers understand and agree to your billing terms before completing a purchase.

You can set up explicit and implicit agreement types, depending on how you want the checkout experience to flow.

Key details

  • Explicit terms: Buyers must check an agreement box before the payment button becomes active.
  • Implicit terms: Your terms label is displayed before the payment button along with a tooltip that shows your terms.
  • Products vs. Checkouts: If you choose the implicit agreement option, it will only be available in Checkouts. If you still use the Legacy checkouts on your pages, explicit terms will be displayed (checkbox required).
Important:

This feature allows you to display billing terms to buyers during checkout.

You remain responsible for maintaining your own Terms & Conditions and Policies pages that accurately reflect your business practices.

Consult a legal adviser if you have not yet created these documents.

How to set it up

Enable your billing terms and conditions for a product

  1. Go to Sales > Products, and click the name of the product.
  2. Access the Legacy checkout tab.
  3. Click Change to edit the Terms and conditions module.
  4. Select Yes, require them to agree.
    The “Yes, require them to agree” option selected and highlighted with an arrow in the Terms and conditions module.

Define your terms

  1. Choose whether you'd like your terms to be implicit. 
    • Note: Legacy checkout pages will continue to display explicit terms. Implicit terms only apply to Checkouts, and may be subject to your local laws. Please consult your legal adviser before enabling this option.
  2. Decide whether the same terms apply to all price points or whether each price point should have its own.
    The Implicit terms checkbox and “One T&C for all price points” option selected in the product’s Terms and conditions settings.
  3. Enter your terms text and the label you want buyers to see.
    The fields for entering a terms label and the full text of billing terms within the product’s Terms and conditions module.

Implicit vs explicit terms comparison

Implicit terms (passive acceptance)

  • Displays your terms label above the payment button. 
  • When buyers hover over the tooltip , they can view the full text of your terms as defined in the product settings.
  • Use this option if you want a faster checkout experience.

Checkout page showing implicit terms: on top of the payment button, the text of your Terms label is displayed, followed by a tooltip prompt where your complete terms can be seen on hover.

Explicit terms (forced acceptance)

  • Requires buyers to check an agreement box before the payment button becomes active.
  • Hovering over the terms label also reveals the full text of your terms from the product settings.
  • Use this option if your region or business requires explicit consent.

Checkout page showing explicit terms: a checkbox and label appear instead of the payment button for buyers to confirm agreement before paying.