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Managing customers

When a new customer places an order with your store, their name and information are automatically added to your customer list. A customer profile is created when a customer interacts with your business in any of the following ways:

  • signing up for your mailing list or a customer account
  • placing an order
  • starting an order, but abandoning their checkout

Alternatively, you can add a customer to your store manually.

You can send email messages to individual customers from your Shopify admin, or send discounts and email messages to groups of customers by usingcustomer segments．

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Add customer profiles

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．

  2. ClickAdd customer．

  3. Enter the customer's information.

  4. Optional: If the customer has agreed to receive marketing emails, and you have entered an email address, then in theCustomer overviewsection, checkCustomer agreed to receive marketing emails．

  5. In theTax exemptionssection, do either of the following:

    • If you charge the customer sales tax, then in theTax exemptionssection, checkCollect tax．
    • If the customer is located in Canada and is exempt from sales tax, then from theBrowse or search exemptionslist, select the all thetax exemptionsthat apply to this customer.

  6. ClickSave．

Send an email message to a customer

You can send an email message to a customer directly from your Shopify admin or from the Shopify app.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．

  2. Click the customer name.

  3. In theCustomer overviewsection, click the customer's email address.

  4. Edit the subject line for the email, or leave it as the default. The codeshop.nameautomatically enters your store's name into subject line of the email message.

  5. In theCustom messagefield, enter your message.

  6. To receive a copy of the message for your records, underSend bcc to, check the appropriate email addresses.

  7. When you are finished, clickReview Email．

  8. ClickSend notification．

Edit customer profiles

If a customer profile already exists in Shopify, then you can edit the profile from theCustomerspage.

Before you update a customer profile, verify if another staff member is currently making changes to the same profile so that your changes don't conflict.

You can add a note to a customer profile to keep track of special information about the customer. Only staff members of your store can access these notes. These notes aren't visible to customers.

Usingtagscan help you to organize your customer profile list. You can use tags to label your customers by using descriptive terms or to sort them into categories. For example, if you have important customers, then you can tag those customers asVIP．标签也可以用来创建customer segments．Tags are not case sensitive.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．

  2. Click the customer name.

  3. To add a note to the customer profile, in theCustomer Notefield, enter the appropriate information about the customer, and then clickSave．

  4. In theCustomer overviewsection, clickManage > Edit contact informationand then make the appropriate changes to the following information:

    • first name
    • last name
    • language
    • email address
    • phone number

  5. To edit the address, in theCustomer overviewsection, clickManage > Manage addressesand do one of the following:

    • To edit the current address, clickEditnext to the appropriate address.
    • To change which address is the default address, clickSet as defaultnext to the appropriate address.
    • 新地址添加到配置文件,点击Add new address．

  6. To change whether taxes are collected or whether the customer is tax exempt, in theCustomer overviewsection, clickManage > Manage tax exemptions．

  7. To change whether the customer receives email marketing, in theCustomer overviewsection, clickManage > Edit marketing settings．

  8. To apply tags to the customer profile, in theTagssection, do either of the following:

    • To add a tag, click the field, and then select a tag.
    • 对雷莫ve a tag, click theXnext to a tag.

Edit a customer's subscription payment information

If you sell subscription products and need a customer to update their payment information because of a failed payment, then you can update your customer's profile in the Shopify admin.

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．
  2. Click the customer you want to view payment information for.
  3. In thePayment methodssection, clickMore actions．
  4. Optional: If you want your customer to update their payment information themselves, then do the following:
    1. ClickSend link to update card．
    2. Select the email address that you want to send the email from.
    3. ClickSend email．
  5. Optional: For some payment methods, if you want to update your customer's payment method manually, then do the following:
    1. ClickReplace card．
    2. Complete theReplace credit cardform.
    3. ClickConfirm．
  6. Optional: If you want to remove your customer's payment method, then click删除card．

Learn more aboutsubscriptions．

Edit customer profiles in bulk

From your Shopify admin, you can use bulk editing to edit information for multiple customer profiles at the same time. You can select several or all customer profiles in the following ways:

  • To edit several individual customer profiles, select each customer profile.
  • To edit all customer profiles that are listed on the page for a segment or based on a search, select theCustomer namecheckbox. A maximum of 50 customers is listed per page.
  • To edit all the customer profiles in your store, verify that theAll customerssegment is selected. Select theCustomer namecheckbox, and then clickSelect all 50+ customers in your store．
  • To edit all the customer profiles in a segment, select theCustomer namecheckbox, and then clickSelect all 50+ customers in this segment．
  • To edit all the customer profiles in a query, select theCustomer namecheckbox, and then clickSelect all 50+ customers in this query．
  • To edit all the customer profiles in a search, select theCustomer namecheckbox, and then clickSelect all 50+ customers in this search．

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．

  2. Select the customer profiles that you want to edit.

  3. To add tags to or remove tags from the selected customer profiles, do the following:

    1. Click the．..next to theEdit customersbutton.
    2. ClickAdd tagsorRemove tags．
    3. Add or remove the tags.
    4. ClickSave．

  4. To edit several pieces of information at one time, including tags, clickEdit customers,n do the following:

    1. ClickColumns,n select each field that you want to edit.
    2. Make the appropriate edits.
    3. ClickSave．

Merging customer profiles

You might have two or more customer profiles that refer to one customer. In this case, you can merge two profiles together, combining them into one profile. Before you complete the merge, you have the opportunity to review and select what information the merged profile will have.

The following information is merged into one profile:

  • orders
  • draft orders
  • addresses
  • email address
  • phone number
  • name
  • notes
  • tags
  • tax settings
  • timeline events
  • credit cards
  • customer accounts
  • gift cards
  • discounts

If any information from both profiles conflicts, then you can cancel the merge process and adjust the information in each record on the customer profile pages before you proceed with the merge.

Limitations for merging customer profiles

Before you merge customer profiles, review the following considerations:

  • After the profiles are merged, you can't reverse the process.
  • If the profiles include notes, then the combined notes must be less than or equal to 5000 characters, including spaces.
  • If the profiles include tags, then the combined tags must be less than or equal to 250 tags.
  • If the customer is subscribed to email and SMS text marketing in one profile, but not in the other, then the merged profile is subscribed.
  • The customer isn't notified when you merge their customer profiles.
  • Profiles can't be merged in the following cases:
    • either of the customer profiles has, or has ever had, a subscription contract
    • either of the customer profiles is a B2B customer actively linked to a company, or still linked to past B2B orders
    • either of the customer profiles has been redacted or a data redaction request is in progress
    • a customer profile merge is in progress
    • a customer data request is in progress

Merge customer profiles

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．

  2. From the customer list, click a customer profile.

  3. ClickMore actions>Merge customer．

  4. In theFind a customer to merge withsection, enter any of the following information to search for another customer profile:

    • first name
    • last name
    • email address
    • phone number
    • credit card number

  5. Select the appropriate customer profile.

  6. In theMerged customersection, review which information is merged and which information is discarded.

  7. Optional: ClickChange contact informationon web, orEditon mobile, to modify the selected customer information before merging.

  8. Optional: ClickView merge details, review the merge details, and then clickClose．

  9. ClickMerge,n clickConfirm．

If you want to merge more than one customer profile into the current one, then you need to repeat the merge procedure for each additional profile.

Merging from the customer list

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．

  2. Select the two customers that you want to merge. If only one of the duplicate profiles is displayed in the index, then you can search for the other profile in the next step.

  3. Click the…next to theEdit customersbutton.

  4. SelectMerge customers．

    • If two customers were selected in the list, then skip ahead to step 7.

  5. If a single customer was selected from the list, then search for the customer underFind a customer to merge with．Use any of the following information to search:

    • first name
    • last name
    • email address
    • phone number
    • credit card number

  6. Select the duplicate customer profile.

  7. In theMerged customersection, review which information is merged and which information is discarded.

  8. Optional: ClickChange contact informationon web, orEditon mobile, to modify the selected customer information before merging.

  9. Optional: ClickView merge details, review the merge details, and then clickClose．

  10. ClickMerge,n clickConfirm．

If you want to merge more than 2 customers together, then repeat the procedure for each additional profile.

Erase a customer’s personal data

You can request to erase a customer’s personal data and redact your customer’s personal data from Shopify’s records, and from any apps and channels that you’ve installed from your Shopify admin. Shopify only redacts personal information, such as your customer’s name and address. Learn more aboutprocessing customer data requests．

Deleting customer profiles

You can delete individual customer profiles. Alternatively, you can delete multiple customer profiles in bulk.

When a customer profile is deleted, the customer’s personal data, such as their name and address, is also redacted from Shopify's records.

Customer profiles can't be deleted in the following cases:

  • the customer has an order history
  • the customer has pending redaction because of a GDPR erasure request
  • 现在客户有一个活跃的订阅,或者the customer ever had a subscription in the past
  • the customer is the recipient of a scheduled gift card that hasn't been delivered yet

If you attempt to delete multiple profiles in bulk, then only the profiles that can be deleted are deleted.

删除individual customer profiles

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．

  2. Click the name of the customer whose profile you want to delete.

  3. ClickMore actions>删除customer．

  4. To confirm that you want to delete the customer profile, click删除customer．

删除customer profiles in bulk

If you attempt to delete multiple customer profiles in bulk, then only the profiles that can be deleted are deleted. Any customer profiles that can't be deleted remain in yourCustomerlist.

Steps:

  1. From your Shopify admin, go toCustomers．

  2. Select each of the customer profilesthat you want to delete.

  3. Click the．..next to theBulk editbutton, then click删除customers．

  4. To confirm that you want to delete the eligible customer profiles, click删除．

Requirements for US military shipping addresses

Military mailing addresses in the US have a unique format that must be entered in a specific way. If the address is entered incorrectly, then the order might not arrive to the intended recipient. There are three different types of US military address:

  • Army/Air Post Office (APO)
  • Fleet Post Office (FPO)
  • Diplomatic Post Office (DPO)

If you receive an order with a US military shipping address, then make sure that the address has been entered correctly before you ship the order. If the shipping address hasn't been entered correctly by the customer, thenedit the customer addressusing the following guidelines:

  • The recipient's name must be entered into theNameboxes, but their rank is optional.
  • For APO addresses, both the PSC and BOX numbers must be in theAddressfield.
  • For FPO and DPO addresses, both the UNIT and BOX numbers must be in theAddressfield.
  • TheCityfield must contain only APO, FPO, or DPO. Don't enter the name of the city.
  • United Statesmust be selected in theCountry/regionfield.
  • Armed Forces Americas,Armed Forces Europe, orArmed Forces Pacificmust be selected in theStatefield. These locations might be entered in abbreviated form by your customer as AA (Armed Forces America), AE (Armed Forces Europe), or AP (Armed Forces Pacific).

If you're not sure about some of the address information, then contact the customer who placed the order for further clarification.

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