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Customer Metafields - Import via .csv?

Customer Metafields - Import via .csv?

Crhage
Tourist
10 0 2

I have a large group of customers that should have a specific set of metafields populated on their profile. These metafields are used for some customer segmentation.

 

My question is whether I can update their metafields through a .csv upload without completely overwriting their current profiles, order histories, etc.? Is that possible? 

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Crhage
Tourist
10 0 2

Maybe I posted the question in the wrong place.

LitExtension
Shopify Partner
4963 1010 1192

Hi Crhage,

Unfortunately, you can't update metafields through a .csv upload without completely overwriting their current profiles, order histories because Shopify doesn't support it.

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Brett_Helium
Shopify Partner
303 58 137

Hey @Crhage, just to clarify on this, when importing customer data via a CSV file, it does overwrite the customer data, but only for the fields/columns that are actually uploaded. If you don't want to overwrite certain data, just make sure not to include a column for it in your CSV.

 

For example, if you just want to update/assign a specific metafield value to existing accounts, you can import a CSV file which only contains columns for the email address (to match to the existing customer accounts) and the specific metafield you are updating.

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MiracleWebsoft
Shopify Partner
50 5 11

Hi,

New update by Shopify. We can manage metafields with Shopify native import and export.


https://youtu.be/iAfJN-4iMpc?si=bmGk3GNNWAMHVk5X

 

kindly like if it works.

 

 

 

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