Show options on orders

Where option details appear on orders automatically, and the templates that need a line of Liquid added.

A customer's choices are stored with their order automatically. This page covers where they appear without any setup, and links to the four templates that need a small piece of Liquid added.

Where they appear without setup

Option values are attached to the cart line as line item properties, which is Shopify's own mechanism for custom order details. Your options appear anywhere Shopify already displays line item properties:

Place	Shows
The cart page	Each option's Name and the customer's value, under the item
Checkout	The same
The order in Shopify admin	The same, per line item
Order confirmation emails	Usually, depending on your notification templates
Uploaded files	As links, so your team can download the originals

The label displayed is the option's Name, not its Label. This is why the Name matters: Size: 18" x12" tells your team what to do, and Frame color: Wooodland Brown does not. See Label and Name.

Option details reach the order with no configuration.

Where they need a small addition

Invoices, packing slips, and notification emails use templates you control. If your template does not already print line item properties, add a small snippet to it.

Each of these has its own page, with the exact template, the download link, and the screenshots for that screen:

Order invoice

Printed invoices from Shopify's Order Printer app.

Packing slip

Order Printer, or Shopify's own packing slip template in Settings.

Confirmation email

The email your customer receives after placing an order.

Staff order notification

The New order email you and your staff receive.

The snippet is slightly different on each page, because invoices and packing slips loop over line_item while the notification emails loop over line. Use the one on the page for the template you are editing.

Whichever you use, the snippet does two things:

• It skips properties whose name starts with an underscore. Those are the app's internal properties, which link add-ons to their parent item and carry pricing data. Your team does not need to read them. See How it works.

• It displays uploaded files as links rather than as long addresses, so a packing slip stays readable.

The snippet must go inside the template's loop over line items, where line_item or line exists. Outside that loop, it displays nothing.

These templates are your store's own paperwork and emails. Copy the existing template somewhere safe before you change it, so you can restore it.

If you have already customized a template, do not paste the full code over it. Merge the snippet into what you have.

If you would rather not edit them yourself, support can supply ready-made versions of these templates. See Contact support.

If you use a different packing slip, invoice, or fulfillment app, the same approach works in any Liquid template where the line item is in scope.

Alternative: use an automation

If you would rather not edit templates, a workflow produces much of the same result without any Liquid:

Workflow	Result
Email notification	Emails you every order with its options, in a format you control
Order notes update	Writes the options into the order's notes — and the note already appears on packing slips, invoices, and emails in most templates
Order tags update	Tags the order by the option chosen, so you can filter and route orders

Order notes update is the most useful of these. Most templates already print the order note, so writing the options into the note puts them on your paperwork without editing a template.

Notes

• Option details on an order are a record of that order. Renaming an option later does not change orders that have already been placed.

• Uploaded files stay available from the order in Shopify admin.

• Add-on products appear as their own line items unless you merge them. See Merge main product and add-ons.

• Properties whose name begins with an underscore are internal to the app. Do not print them or build processes around them.