Shopify is deprecating Legacy customer accounts and replacing them with New customer accounts. With this change, Shopify will no longer expose via the API whether a customer has an account. This means:Documentation Index
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- The
hasShopifyAccountflag is no longer reliable or available - It is not possible to distinguish account holders from guests in Voyado Engage
- You can no longer use account status to control contact types or segmentation
Recommended setup
To ensure consistency and maintain loyalty functionality, Voyado recommends the following setup:Create all customers as Member
Configure the app to create all customers as type “Member”:Voyado Engage app → Settings → Customer Contact Type → “Create everyone as Member”This ensures all customers can be included in loyalty programs and avoids incorrect contact type classification.
Use a consent to define loyalty membership
Since Shopify no longer provides account status, loyalty membership needs to be defined explicitly. Voyado recommends using a consent field in Engage to mark when a customer joins your loyalty program. This provides several key benefits:
- Traceability - Track when a customer joined the loyalty program, including date and time
- Automation - Trigger welcome flows, onboarding journeys, and personalized communication
- Structured data - Store membership status in a consistent and reliable way
Collecting loyalty membership
Since loyalty membership is defined using a consent in Engage, the next step is to decide how customers sign up. Here are the recommended options for collecting loyalty membership.Using separate loyalty sign-up form
Using separate loyalty sign-up form
Create a dedicated loyalty registration flow outside of Shopify’s native account system.How it works:
- Create a custom sign-up form for loyalty membership
- Collect required fields (e.g. name, email, marketing preferences)
- Include a consent field to define loyalty membership
- Send the data directly to Engage
- Full control over the registration experience
- Clean and reliable data collection
- Works independently of Shopify limitations
Using Onsite messaging (pop-ups & embedded forms)
Using Onsite messaging (pop-ups & embedded forms)
If you are using the Engage Onsite Messaging add-on, you can capture loyalty members directly on-site.How it works:
- Create pop-ups or embed minimized forms in Shopify
- Trigger them based on behavior (e.g. time on site, login to My account page)
- Collect:
- Membership data
- Consent for loyalty membership
- Automatically mark users as loyalty members in Engage
- No dependency on Shopify account system
- No coding required
- Contextual and dynamic targeting
Not distinguishing between customer types
Not distinguishing between customer types
If you do not need to distinguish between different customer types, the integration can be used as is. This applies if:
- You treat all customers equally, regardless of whether they have actively signed up for a loyalty program
- You define loyalty based on other factors, such as newsletter subscription or purchase behavior (number of orders, spend)
- Other engagement data available in Engage
Showing loyalty data
Due to Shopify limitations, the Engage theme app block used to display loyalty data such as point balance, member level, promotions, and vouchers is not supported on the New customer account page. This is consistent with the current Shopify app documentation, which notes that the theme app block is not applicable for new customer accounts. The block can still be used on other supported storefront pages outside of checkout and the customer account page. The Checkout extension for promotions and vouchers is not affected by this change.Customer account UI extensions
If you want to display loyalty data within Shopify’s new customer account experience, one possible direction is to build a Customer Account UI extension in Shopify. Shopify supports extensions on customer account pages such as Order index, Order status, and Profile pages, which makes this a relevant path for merchants who want a more tailored account experience. At a high level, this means:- Creating a customer account extension in Shopify
- Connecting that extension to Engage APIs
- Fetching enriched customer and loyalty data
- Presenting that data in a way that fits your brand and account experience