Why Markets instead of countries
A Market is a group of countries you have already defined in Shopify Settings → Markets, together with its currency, pricing, and catalogue. If your commercial reality is already expressed as Markets, mapping payments to Markets keeps one source of truth. Add a country to a Market later and your payment rule follows automatically — with a country-based rule you would have to remember to edit it. Use countries instead when your payment logic genuinely differs from your market structure — for example one country inside a Market that needs a local method the rest do not.Building one
- Title — internal.
- Zones — same as country zones, except Add markets offers your configured Shopify Markets rather than a country list.
- Available payment methods in this zone — remove what should not appear, Edit to rename or set priority.
- Status → Save.
Requirements
The app requests theread_markets permission at install, which is what lets it list your Markets. If the market picker is empty, check that you have Markets configured in Settings → Markets — a store that has never set one up has only the primary market.