Getting a specific customer data in Shopify flow

[mave_mohiuddin]

What is the best way to retrieve a specific customer data in Shopify flow?

For my purpose, I am working on a reference program. When a customer requests a shareable link, the customer.id is added to the register url of the shop and presented as a shareable link. It looks something like as follows:

https://{shop}.com/account/register?reference={customer id}

When someone register using the URL, I'm adding the reference value as a note to the new customer account.

Then Shopify flow picks up the "Customer Created" trigger, and checks if the customer has a 'reference' note. If it does, Flow assigns a metafield value for the newly created customer account. It's working as expected up to this point.

I also want Flow to update a metafield value of the customer who shared the link. Here's where the problem arises. what is the best way to get the customer object of the customer who shared the link? from the newly created account, I can access the customer.id of the sharer. 

If a shop has a small number of customers, then it'll not be difficult, I can fetch 100, and filter. But when the shop will have thousands of customer account,(I don't know how much, I just want it to scale reliably) can I reliably do it with id?

Reference of the workflow.

[heddykhalifa]

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[mave_mohiuddin]

Thank you very much for the insight. I'll try to make use of tags. This is a passion project, not for a customer's request. Thus, I am not considering using an app for solution. However, if I end up doing it for a customer, I'll consider Gameball.