@Liam-Shopify has there been any movement on this? This is a HUGE oversight on Shopify’s part. The Google Customer Review program is supposed to be free but it appears the only way to get this to work at this point in time is to pay for a checkout extension app which puts Shopify Merchants at a disadvantage. Shopify has a large percentage of merchants that are small businesses and we already operate on razor thin margins.
Ideally this should be included in the Google & Youtube sales channel. I expect the LOE for that would not be tiny since there would need to be a lot of regression testing to ensure that other functionality in the app was not impacted.
Could Shopify offer a free, interim solution using the same method as the paid apps to at least put your merchants back on a somewhat level playing field with the rest of the world? Based on the research I have been able to do on this method, it does not appear to be ideal because it adds an additional step that requires the customer to click a CTA in an app block on the thank-you page that then directs to a proxy page that hosts the Google opt-in script. Any additional friction that is added to a customer journey usually results in a drop-off of engagement.
Maybe it doesn’t even need to be an interim solution. Since the main reason for going to the Pixels in a Sandboxed environment was to increase security and restrict third-party scripts during the checkout process, Shopify could adjust the Sandbox permissions to allow very specific external scripts and implement some type of security around them to ensure they have not been altered in flight.
I’m sure there are other potential solutions, but NO solution is really not an acceptable answer.