Shopify should let Indian merchants prefix MRP to regular price easily

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

Request for a built-in way to show “MRP” (Maximum Retail Price) before the regular/compare-at price to meet Indian compliance. Current Shopify guidance required editing styles.css, but the Dawn theme doesn’t include that file, and support suggested hiring an expert or seeking community help.

Context and impact: Indian law expects clear MRP labeling, and merchants fear penalties if not displayed correctly. “Compare-at price” is the crossed-out/regular price used to show discounts, where the MRP label needs to appear.

Latest update: The original poster shared a working workaround (“simple hack”) via a community link that adds text before the strike-through price in Dawn. The linked post is central for implementation details.

Outcome and status: No official Shopify solution or commitment noted. A community workaround exists, but the request is for an easy, platform-level option. Action item: upvote the suggestion to prompt Shopify to add native support. Discussion remains open/ongoing.

Summarized with AI on December 19. AI used: gpt-5.
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Indian merchants,

Please upvote this suggestion to ask Shopify to create an easy tool/ option for prefixing MRP to regular price (compare-at-price) to comply with regulatory law compliance in India, and not get penalized for it.

Shopify support team gave us a link to study which required us to make edits to styles.css file under assets, but our DAWN theme (made by Shopify itself!) does not have a styles.css file! Now Shopify support team suggests we should hire an expert at our cost, or post messages on this discussion board to seek help. This is an issue that impacts EVERY Shopify merchant in India - if you haven’t received a legal notice yet, you soon will.

It is our belief that merchants on Shopify platform should not be left to search and experiment with coding options individually just to be compliant with laws of the land.

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This simple hack worked for me. If you are a merchant from India facing similar issues prefixing MRP, check this out: https://community.shopify.com/post/1926583