I need this as well. Customers are creating accounts with:
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different email addresses
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different last names
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short version of their full name
Ugh. Not fun.
Hopefully this will be rectified soon.
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Please create a way to merge customers. It is needed.
How duplicates happen:
I have a large customer base of people who have placed online orders. I also do a number of conferences each year, and sales that are run though the POS app often end up under the name that is on the customerâs credit card. For example, I have Jane L Doe who just bought books at a conference. All her conference purchases are listed under Jane Lee Doe. This makes it hard to locate all her transactions and keep her information uniformly updated.
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Shopify can we PLEASE get this option!!!
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I agree. I moved away from Square platform to Shopify expecting it to be much better and advanced. But a simple solution to merge customers is still not an option. WHY? Please fix this SHOPIFY. Thank you.
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Please add this!! Itâs really a pain to have customers who have 4 emails or who accidentally misspell theirs and we now have two customers for them.
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Iâd like to reply to Rae from Shopify if possible as our store has the same issues with needing to merge customer accounts.
- We have an online and POS presence. When customers use a different email address online, they now have 2 different accounts.
- If a customer checks out at POS and staff forgets to put in their customer name, if they use a different credit card at check out, it comes up as Visa Cardholder, thus creating a different customer account. When we try to go back and edit the profile, it lets us put the customer name in, but when we put in the email, it says that email is already in use so we cannot add that purchase to the customers profile - thus creating two different customer accounts.
- If a name is misspelled on the customer profile, when the customer comes in and staff is looking it up, they end up creating a new profile with the correct spelling, not knowing there is an account, it just needs to be edited. When we go back to correct the old spelling, we are unable to merge the files due to the âemail already in useâ issue.
This makes it difficult to accurately gauge spending thresholds of customers, loyalty rewards for customers (with more than one account), it makes it tedious when returning without receipts because we have to look up their receipts under all of their profiles, it gives an inaccurate count for number of customers when doing emails and it duplicates emails when a customer has 2 different emails on their different accounts.
If there could be a way to merge customer accounts without losing any of the purchasing history, that would be fabulous and would get rid of all the issues listed above.
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We run into the same issue with our customers and tracking them. The worst, is if they make an error in their email address, we are not able to change it, because it says the correct email address already exists and doesnât link them. It seems like a basic function that Shopify is ignoring. I donât understand why this would not be a priority. 
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100% agree and have the same issues you have. It makes it very hard to track our loyal customers and their true spending habits.
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I have the same issues.
Mine comes from someone I know paying outside of shopify (cash at work for eg) and I need to put it in the system and forget that they have ordered in shopify so I accidentally create them a new account.
Merging these sales and accounts would be very helpful.
Thanks
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Seems like a no-brainer. Why is this taking so long? It is hard to be a customer-focused business when the tools do not allow for such BASIC functionality.
Come on Shopify?
Get on it, please. Thank you.
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Yes please I have the same issues I need this !!!
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We need this as well. We have customers that sign up with their email and then sign up again with their phone number. The SMS alerts do not work as well as the email alerts and we want to merge everything under the email address. This is desperately needed to improve the customer experience. Thank you!
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This is crazy that a solution hasnât been created for this. I just did an SMS campaign to people who havenât placed an order yet. Turns out there were a lot in this customer segment who actually had, just that they had more than 1 account created. Some customers were really pissed off that they were considered someone who hadnât bought before when they had bought many times and were some of my VIP customers. This lack of ability to merge clients is affecting my businessâ reputation when I do these types of marketing campaigns. Come on Shopify, I pay you a lot of money each month, help us!
Sam
Cheese Therapy
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Yes, we REALLY need this feature. The problem is even worse than just not being able to keep track of our repeat customers or market to them. It actually interferes with processing current orders, which is the essential function of Shopify.
This is what happens: Bob, a long-time customer whose email address is bobgmail.com places an order, but accidentally types bobbgmail.com. Obviously, Bob never gets email confirmation of his order. So, he gets in touch and asks what happened, and I let him know all is well and itâs shipping later today. Then I try to update the order with his real email, but I canât put in his real email address because itâs already taken by âOther Bob.â Who is the same guy.
Now Bob is not going to get his order confirmation (which serves as his receipt), or his tracking number, or any of the other communications the system sends automatically. And if we need to communicate with him about his order, I and my staff wonât be able to look on the order to find his email address - weâll have to remember to look at our notes to find it.
I really canât understand why Shopify is not able to make it possible to merge customers. It doesnât seem that complicated at all. I wonder if someone could develop an app that did it?
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Yes we need this feature, its crazy i cant just select the two accounts and merge the data together, the work arounds are impossible.
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My take is having the customer âfix itâ is not a good solution.
The burden should not be on the customer. Likely the customer will be angered were we to suggest this, as the problem isnât their fault.
And itâs likely that the customer wonât be able to log into the various accounts they have created to consolidate. Were they able to / bother to / remember⌠then they would likely not have created multiple accounts to begin with.
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Asking the customer to delete a duplicate account wouldnât solve the problem, as the issue isnât the customerâs own account, but Shopifyâs recognition of the same customer as different people.
As an example: Lisa has never created an account, but sheâs placed two orders, one using her email address and one using her phone number. Shopify considers her two different customers. Itâs impossible to add her email address to the order with just a phone number, because that belongs to âLisa #1.â Obviously, since Lisa doesnât have an âaccountâ thereâs nothing for her to delete. And even if she could, what would happen to the order associated with that Lisa? There really needs to be a way to merge Lisa #1 & Lisa #2.
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Itâs a big problem for people that offer digital downloads. If a customer purchased something and downloaded with email1 and on next order made an order with email2 there is no way for them to go back and retrieve previously downloaded files to have all in one place, unless I make them re-purchase them with a 100% discount code so they can keep a library all in one place.
Had some customers making a new email address that had to re-purchase and download a whole library of 50+ items. :s having a merge function would be just a 1 click thing to get all in one place, while now we need endless workarounds and customer guidance to achieve something that appears to be so simple on other platforms.
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Come on!
Quickbooks lets you do this. This is a massive PITA. FIX IT, please.
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We have several duplicates due to:
the customer checked out via POS and didnât provide email or phone or address and then bought something at a later date online and included all the information. I went back to include her email address in the POS order hoping it would sync but shopify wonât allow the email address because it already exists with the other duplicate account.
It makes a big difference⌠between sorting our data by most orders per customer and sorting our data by highest amount spent by a customer. For example, I have a customer that when I sort the data by amount spent she does not show in the top 5 because of a duplicate account, and itâs a discrepancy of over $600 to put her in the top 5. Same with the number of orders she has placed as well.
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