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 actions that update metafields.

Field	Description
Metafield	Required. This dropdown selects a metafield by name or by namespace and key.
Namespace	Required when selecting an unstructured metafield. A namespace is a container for a group of metafield definitions. Grouping metafields within a namespace prevents your metafields from conflicting with other metafields.
Key	Required when selecting an unstructured metafield. A key is an identifier for the metafield definition.
Type	Required when selecting an unstructured metafield. The data type of the metafield's value.
Value	The value is the information to be stored in the metafield. Format the value according to its data type to avoid errors when the workflow runs.

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.

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