Add the EU guarantee notice and GARAN label to Shopify: theme, metafield or app?

From 27 September 2026, Shopify stores selling goods to EU consumers must show the harmonised legal-guarantee notice and — where a producer offers a free durability guarantee longer than two years — the GARAN label. Shopify ships neither natively. This guide compares the three ways to add them: a theme snippet, a metafield solution, and an app.

The short version: the notice is store-wide and static, so a theme snippet is enough. The GARAN label is per product, so it needs a metafield per product or an app that manages it. In a hurry, use an app; to build it yourself, the integration is below.

What is required — treat notice and label separately

Two marks, two triggers. Confusing them means building the wrong thing.

	Legal guarantee notice	GARAN label
Legal basis	Annex I, Reg. (EU) 2025/1960	Annex II, Reg. (EU) 2025/1960
Applies to	Every good sold to EU consumers	Only a free producer guarantee longer than 2 years
Per product?	No, identical everywhere	Yes, it carries the duration
Where	Product page, before purchase	Next to the product image
Language	One translation per storefront language (24)	One language-neutral artwork for all 24

So the notice is a static, store-wide element. The label is per product and needs data.

Route 1 — a theme snippet for the notice

This is the easy part, and for the notice a snippet is enough.

1. Download the official artwork in the right language from the Commission (vector files from the implementing regulation).
2. In Shopify → Online Store → Themes → Edit code, create a section or a snippet.
3. Upload the artwork as an asset and output it in product.liquid (or the product template) under the buy button, plus one line in the footer.
4. For each language you sell in, add the right file and gate the output on request.locale.

The downside: every theme change means redoing it, and a Commission translation revision would have to be applied by hand.

Route 2 — a metafield for the GARAN label

The label belongs to the product, so it goes on the product.

1. In Shopify → Settings → Custom data → Products, create a metafield, for example custom.guarantee_years (integer) and optionally custom.guarantee_producer.
2. Output it in the product template with Liquid — only if the value is greater than 2:

   {% if product.metafields.custom.guarantee_years > 2 %}
     <img src="{{ 'garan-label.jpg' | asset_url }}"
          alt="Producer guarantee {{ product.metafields.custom.guarantee_years }} years">
   {% endif %}

3. Draw the years into the field Annex II reserves on the official artwork. Depending on the template that field is editable, or the duration must be positioned with CSS.
4. Fill the values for every qualifying product — by CSV import on large catalogues.

Important: set the metafield only where a free producer guarantee longer than two years covers the whole product. A misplaced label is a false claim.

Route 3 — an app

An app such as EU Guarantee Label & GARAN combines both routes: the notice as a theme extension, the label per product with its duration, in all 24 languages, without theme code. Setup takes about five minutes and there is a free plan. The detailed walkthrough is in the install guide.

Which route for whom:

• Notice only (most stores): the theme snippet is enough.
• A few products with a long guarantee: the metafield solution is workable.
• Many products, several languages, warning-letter risk: an app, because the data and the language versions otherwise need continuous upkeep.

Warning-letter checklist

In Germany, competitors and associations can send warning letters (Abmahnung) for missing mandatory information. Tick these off before the date:

Conclusion

The notice is easy; the label is data management. Whoever integrates both cleanly before 27 September meets the deadline calmly. Whoever does nothing shows no compliant label on the day — and that is visible to anyone who checks.

Read next: what changes on 27 September 2026 and the GARAN label in detail.

Free tools: the free GARAN label generator · the free official notice downloads. No account, nothing you enter leaves your browser.

Sources: Directive (EU) 2024/825 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1960. Verified 4 September 2026.

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This page summarises Directive (EU) 2024/825 and Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1960 for information only. It is not legal advice.