Update customer metafield

The Update customer metafield action adds a metafield to the customer that triggers the workflow, or updates an existing metafield on that customer.

Fields

The Update customer metafield action contains the following fields.

Fields used in the update metafield action.

Field	Description
Metafield namespace	Required. A metafield namespace is a container for a group of metafields. Grouping metafields within a namespace prevents your metafields from conflicting with other metafields.
Key	Required. A key is an identifier for the metafield value.
Value	Required. The value is the information to be stored in the metafield. The value is always stored as a string, regardless of the metafield's type.
Type	The data type of the metafield's value.

For details on what format is required for each value and type, consult the metafields documentation.

Triggers

The Update customer metafield action requires a field, Customer ID, that identifies the customer to add a metafield to. The customer ID is set by default and can't be changed.

The Update customer metafield can be used in workflows that start with the following triggers:

• Customer account disabled
• Customer account enabled
• Customer created
• Draft order created

• Subscription contract created

• Order canceled

• Order created

• Order fulfilled

• Order paid

• Order risk analyzed

• Order transaction created

• Fulfillment created

• Fulfillment event created

• Refund created

• Tender transaction created

API details

To learn more, review the MetafieldInput input object.