Having customers checkout without paying

Topic summary

A merchant wants to enable customers to place orders without immediate payment or entering payment details at checkout. Their goal is to receive orders first, then send invoices for payment at a later time.

Proposed Solution:

  • Manual payment methods were suggested as a potential approach

Outstanding Questions:

  • Whether manual payments are straightforward to implement
  • If it’s possible to completely bypass payment collection at checkout to handle invoicing entirely through a separate system

The discussion remains open, awaiting guidance on implementation details and whether Shopify supports this workflow natively.

Summarized with AI on October 30. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hi, I am wanting to have customers be able to add an item to cart, see the price and then place the order but without paying or adding in any payment details. Then we can receive the order and send out an invoice that they can pay at a later date.

How can I make this work?

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Thank you, I haven’t used manual payment before, is this straight forward? And is there a way for it to be set up with no payment so we can do our invoices entirely separately.