State Restrictions App

For plant retailers.

Some plants can't legally ship to certain states. Rather than make you keep track of all that, we built our own free app that quietly blocks checkout when a customer tries to ship a restricted plant somewhere it can't go. It saves you from compliance headaches and surprise returns.

This is an LGL app — we build it, we run it, and we keep it current. The list of which plants are restricted in which states lives entirely on our side. We update it as regulations change, so you never have to manage any of it. You just install it and turn it on once.

Install it

👉 Get the State Restrictions app on the Shopify App Store — it's free.

Turning it on

1. Install our State Restrictions app from the Shopify App Store.
2. In Shopify, go to Settings → Checkout.
3. Under Configurations, click the black Edit button on your active checkout.
4. In the left sidebar, find Shipping Validation by LGL and click the + next to checkout-growing-restrictions to add it.
5. Make sure "Allow this app to block checkout" is On.
6. Click Save.

That's it — restricted orders are now stopped at checkout, automatically.

What your customer sees

We kept this gentle so it never kills a sale. If someone tries to ship a restricted plant to a state it can't go, they get a friendly note at checkout with two easy choices:

• Ship somewhere else — update the address to a state where the plant is allowed, or
• Remove just that item — drop the one restricted plant and check out with everything else right away.

Either way they keep moving — the rest of their cart isn't held up, and they're never stuck.