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.
FieldDescription
Metafield namespaceRequired. A metafield namespace is a container for a group of metafields. Grouping metafields within a namespace prevents your metafields from conflicting with other metafields.
KeyRequired. A key is an identifier for the metafield value.
ValueRequired. 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.
TypeThe 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:

API details

To learn more, review the MetafieldInput input object.

Templates

Track how often customer have gotten refund in customer metafield

Sets a metafield on a customer when the customer has at least one item being refunded. This workflow also shows how to get the value of an integer metafield and then add a number to it. View template

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