Pix has become a cornerstone of digital payments in Brazil, transforming how consumers and businesses transfer and receive funds in real time. When combined with Shopify — one of the world’s leading e-commerce platforms — it creates a powerful foundation for merchants operating in or expanding to the Brazilian market.
Shopify is known for offering a robust, user-friendly, and highly scalable environment, supporting online businesses across different sizes and industries and enabling seamless integrations with local and global payment solutions.
For merchants seeking a payment partner that fully supports Pix within the Shopify ecosystem, PagBrasil stands out as the only provider offering five distinct Pix payment modalities tailored specifically for Shopify merchants.
In this article, we explore each of these Pix options and outline how to determine which are most appropriate for your business objectives.
What Are PagBrasil’s Five Pix Payment Options for Shopify?
By combining streamlined integration with a performance-driven approach, PagBrasil enables merchants to go beyond basic digital payment processing.
1. Pix: What Differentiates PagBrasil’s “Standard” Pix?
Pix via PagBrasil is the most widely used Pix solution and the one adopted by the majority of our clients.
It allows customers to complete payments using either a copy-and-paste Pix code or by scanning a QR code generated at checkout, finalizing the transaction within their banking app. This is the Pix experience Brazilian consumers are already familiar with, while offering Shopify merchants a range of operational advantages.
The primary differentiator compared to other solutions on the market lies in PagBrasil’s technological robustness. As a multi-bank solution — meaning that if one bank experiences instability, payment processing is automatically rerouted to another — the system ensures high availability and stability, even during peak demand periods such as promotional campaigns or high-volume sales events.
In addition, Pix via PagBrasil delivers one of the highest approval rates in the market, exceeding 90%, compared to an industry average of approximately 65% to 70%.
2. How Does 1-Click Pix Accelerate the Checkout Process?
It is common for shoppers to select a product, accept the price, and ultimately abandon the purchase at the checkout stage.
This behavior, known as cart abandonment, can occur for several reasons. One of the most significant contributors is friction caused by an excessive number of steps required to complete the payment.
PagBrasil is the only payment processor to offer instant payments with a single click. With 1-Click Pix, all steps that would normally take place within the banking app are eliminated; customers complete the payment without leaving the merchant’s checkout page.
This solution operates within the framework of a No-Redirect Payment Journey (Jornada Sem Redirecionamento – JSR), a capability enabled by Open Finance.
Check out the payment experience below:
3. How Can Merchants Enhance the Recurring Payments Experience with Automatic Pix?
Automatic Pix (Pix Automático) is a solution that enables Pix to be used as a payment method by merchants offering subscription-based services or recurring payments, without requiring a new customer action for each billing cycle. It operates similarly to direct debit, while delivering greater convenience for consumers and tangible benefits for merchants.
For PagBrasil clients, this payment modality is fully integrated with PagStream®, our plug-and-play subscription management platform.
Before the introduction of Automatic Pix, recurring-business customers typically paid either by credit card — a method well suited to automated billing — or by bank slips (boleto bancário), which require the customer to manually complete each monthly payment.
Now, customers can select Pix as the payment method for a recurring product or service, providing consent for future charges to be processed automatically, and always in accordance with the agreed terms, such as payment amount limits and billing dates. They can also easily manage their recurring payments directly within their banking app.
For merchants, a frictionless recurring payment journey translates into fewer involuntary churn events and higher conversion rates, better customer retention, greater revenue predictability, and cost optimization, as Pix transactions can cost up to 14 times less than credit card payments.
The impact of Automatic Pix is already evident across a range of business models. Below are examples of how merchants are successfully using this solution in practice.
Fazenda Jotacê
- 23% of new subscriptions since the implementation of Automatic Pix are processed using this payment method
- 38% of customers who subscribed via Automatic Pix had no prior purchase history with the company
- 46% increase in revenue
- 28% reduction in subscription cancellation rates
- 50% reduction in financial costs for subscriptions compared to credit card payments
Period analyzed: May 28, 2025 to July 15, 2025 (without Automatic Pix) vs. July 16, 2025 to September 28, 2025 (with Automatic Pix)
Weasy
- 38% of new subscriptions since the implementation of Automatic Pix are processed using this payment method
- 45% of subscribers using Automatic Pix had no prior purchase history with the company
- 2% increase in revenue
- 5% reduction in subscription cancellation rates
- 65% reduction in financial costs for subscriptions compared to credit card payments
Period analyzed: June 18, 2025 to August 15, 2025 (without Automatic Pix) vs. August 16, 2025 to October 13, 2025 (with Automatic Pix)
4. What Is the Advantage of Pix Modal at Checkout?
Pix Modal is a payment option that displays the QR code in an overlay window (modal) directly within the Shopify checkout, without redirecting the customer to a new page or external environment.
This approach ensures that customers remain within the store’s interface throughout the entire payment process, reinforcing a sense of security and visual continuity.
Keeping users in the same environment reduces the risk of abandonment caused by uncertainty or confusion resulting from interface changes.
In addition, the modal display makes it easier to scan the QR code — particularly for desktop purchases, where customers typically use a mobile device to complete the payment.
Pix Modal is especially well suited for merchants that prioritize design, brand identity, and a consistent user experience. By operating seamlessly within Shopify’s infrastructure, it reduces friction in the conversion process without disrupting the visual or functional flow of the checkout.
5. How Does Pix on the Thank You Page Work?
Pix on the Thank You Page is a feature that generates a Pix QR code directly on the Thank You Page of Shopify Plus merchants.
The flow works as follows: after selecting Pix as the payment method and clicking the “Pay now” button, the customer is taken to a confirmation page displaying the payment details, including the QR code or copy-and-paste Pix code. Once the customer completes the Pix payment, PagBrasil identifies the transaction and automatically sends a payment confirmation by email, ensuring continuity and transparency for both merchants and customers.
Unlike Pix Modal, which has a fixed validity window of approximately seven minutes, Pix on the Thank You Page can be configured by the merchant, offering greater flexibility in how long the payment remains available to the customer.
Because the payment validity period is configurable, Pix on the Thank You Page enables cart recovery and payment reminder strategies. If the customer does not complete the Pix payment immediately, merchants can re-engage them within the configured time window, without requiring the customer to restart the purchase journey.
Which Pix Option for Shopify Is Right for Your Business?
Pix is now a foundational payment method in Brazil, but differentiation still lies in how it is implemented.
PagBrasil enables Shopify merchants to go beyond basic Pix acceptance by offering five distinct Pix payment options designed for different purchase journeys and business models — from standard Pix to advanced solutions for recurring payments, accelerated mobile checkouts, and conversion-optimized flows.
Backed by PagBrasil’s robust, multi-bank technology, these options deliver greater performance, stability, and flexibility across the checkout experience.
To learn how to activate the Pix solutions best suited to your Shopify operation, speak with a PagBrasil specialist.
