TnC: Terms and Conditions Box is a practical app for stores that need customers to actively accept a policy before buying, rather than simply showing a link in the footer. It is especially relevant for made-to-order products, age-restricted items, unusual delivery windows, and digital goods where you need an explicit acknowledgement of terms such as an EU withdrawal-right waiver. The point is not the checkbox itself; it is making that acknowledgement hard to skip and, on the right plan, keeping a record with the order.
Key features
The app can place a required checkbox on product pages, the cart page, cart drawers, and accelerated checkout routes such as Buy It Now, Shop Pay, Apple Pay, and PayPal. That coverage matters because a checkbox that works only on a normal cart page can be bypassed by a dynamic checkout button. It can also show a rule only for selected products or countries, translate the checkbox for different markets, and, on Pro, add consent fields to newsletter, contact, and login forms as well as Shopify POS.
The most useful feature is the order-level consent record. On Advanced and Pro, the date and time of acceptance are saved in the order details. For a merchant dealing with a customer dispute, that is much more useful than a checkbox that merely appeared on the storefront. If you are setting up an acknowledgement for digital products, pair the technical setup with the right wording; our guide to the EU withdrawal requirement on Shopify explains why the legal wording and the customer flow both matter.
Pricing and free trial
There is a free plan for development and partner stores. For live stores, Basic costs $4.99/month and covers the checkbox plus express checkout buttons. Advanced costs $9.99/month and adds consent logs in orders, product targeting, and country targeting. Pro costs $12.99/month and adds forms, translations, Shopify POS, and the AI policy generator. All paid plans currently include a 7-day trial.
For most stores with a genuine compliance reason, Advanced is the meaningful starting point. Basic is fine if you only need to block checkout, but without a consent record you lose much of the practical value of using a dedicated app.
Rating and reviews
At the time of review, TnC has a 4.9 rating from 505 reviews in the Shopify App Store and is marked Built for Shopify. Recent merchants consistently mention quick setup and responsive help when the app needs adjustment for a custom product page, a cart layout, or a particular policy flow. One merchant used it for the EU digital-products withdrawal acknowledgement, while another needed a visual fix for the checkbox alongside Apple Pay and PayPal. That is a good signal that support is useful when the initial setup is not completely standard.
Pitfalls
A simple checkbox can still feel expensive at $4.99/month, especially if your theme already supports the exact policy link you need. More importantly, the features that justify the subscription, consent logs and targeted rules, are not included in Basic. You should also test every path yourself: standard cart, cart drawer, Buy It Now buttons, mobile, translated storefronts, and any page-builder product templates. The app can enforce a choice, but it does not decide whether your text is legally sufficient, and its data-access permissions deserve the same review you would give any app installed on your store.
If your goal is broader checkout improvement rather than a specific legal acknowledgement, start with the larger flow too: our Shopify checkout optimization guide can help identify friction a checkbox will not solve.
Conclusion
I would choose TnC when I need to reliably require consent across more than one Shopify buying path and keep proof of that consent with the order. It is well suited to digital products, custom or made-to-order goods, age gates, and stores with market-specific terms. I would not install it just to add a decorative terms link: in that case, the theme may be enough. For merchants who need a record that is actually useful after the sale, Advanced is the plan worth testing during the trial.
