API Add Customer Email send Double Opt In

Technical Q&A
1

Hi there,

is there a way to automatically send a double opt in email to a customer created with the API?

Im using

POST /admin/api/2019-10/customers.json

to create a new customer:

{
“customer”: {
“first_name”: “”,
“email”: “email@example.com”,
“accepts_marketing”: true,
“send_email_invite”: true <---- This only sends the “Account Activation Email” but does not confirm the double opt in
}
}

Is there such an option for the double opt in invite email?

Thanks for your help!

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2

Hi,
any update on this topic? I am also interested in solution of this issue.

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3

I’d also like a reply for this. The fact that Shopify supports this natively, means it should also work with the API.

4

Are there any updates on this? Currently struggling on that myself. I’m trying to build a custom newsletter signup page and somehow neither of the queries I tried seems to send the double opt-in marketing confirmation mail to $email.

mutation createCustomer(
      $email: String!
      $firstName: String!
      $lastName: String!
      $updatedAt: DateTime!
   ) {
      customerCreate(
         input: {
            email: $email
            firstName: $firstName
            lastName: $lastName
            emailMarketingConsent: {
               marketingOptInLevel: CONFIRMED_OPT_IN
               marketingState: PENDING
               consentUpdatedAt: $updatedAt
            }
            tags: ["example"]
         }
      ) {
         userErrors {
            field
            message
         }
         customer {
            firstName
            lastName
            email
         }
      }
   }
5

Is it still an issue?

I’m with OptiMonk, a website personalization tool that offers custom sign-up forms, and an increasing number of customers are asking about having a DOI option when integrating with Shopify.

If we set

CustomerMarketingOptInLevel

to

CONFIRMED_OPT_IN

in

CustomerEmailMarketingConsentInput

in version 2022-10 - as written here: https://shopify.dev/api/admin-graphql/2022-10/enums/CustomerMarketingOptInLevel subscribers should get a confirmation email in an intermediate step as described here:

“After providing their information, the customer receives a confirmation and is required to perform a intermediate step before receiving marketing information.”

But it didn’t, right?

6

in this similar thread, Alan says it never worked.. .https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-apis-and-sdks/trigger-double-opt-in-notification-for-customer-created-via-api/m-p/1858992/highlight/true#M85731