Customer account creations / custom fields / dawn template

Technical Q&A

Topic summary

Goal: add custom fields (company name, address) to Shopify customer registration (Dawn theme) via main-register.liquid.

Initial issue: a “translation missing” error appears for {{ ‘customer.register.company’ | t }} after adding an input. The t filter looks up a locale string; if the key isn’t defined in the theme’s locales, it shows this error.

Attempted fix: create a customer metafield for “company.” Despite adding it, the error persists. Advice suggested referencing customer.metafields.register.company and checking the translation key usage. Screenshots were shared showing metafield configuration and a resulting form, but the field still isn’t recognized as intended.

Workaround: bypass metafields and save the value to customer note via name=“customer[note][company]”. This captures data, but requires manual transfer to account fields afterward.

Open questions: whether to replace code with Shopify’s “additional customer information” guide and how to correctly bind the field to a customer metafield. Status: unresolved; no confirmed solution. Images are included to illustrate metafield setup and results.

Summarized with AI on February 7. AI used: gpt-5.
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Im trying to add some custom fields to the customer account creation.

I would like to collect “company name” and “address” on account creation.

i tried to add the following to main-register.liquid

{{ 'customer.register.company' | t }}

This added “company” to the registration form but with a translation missing error.

I also stumbled along a help file for collecting additional info https://shopify.dev/themes/customer-engagement/additional-customer-information

iam unsure if i should replace all the code with the coding found in the help link and then adjust that?

Any help appreciated.

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Hi @cloudisland ,

It’s showing translation missing error because where you write {{customer.register.company}}. It means there should be the metafield or column name in customer object, seems shopify don’t have this object.

Therefore it’s giving error to resolve it, please add metafield in your customer object.

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Many thanks for your reply !

I have added customer metafield for “company” but still received the same error.

do i need to adjust {{ ‘customer.register.company’ | t }} ?

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when I add metafield

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Means metafield should be written like customer.metafields.register.company or possibly it’s because you have use single quote {{ ‘customer.register.company’ | t }}

plz try with

My metafield looks like

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Result

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This has added to the form , but it doesnt identify the field .

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@cloudisland ,

You didn’t mark it as solution! Seems your issue is not only translation missing error. Can you elaborate your problem or flow in detail.

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I spent hours trying to get it right but no joy my website only runs in one language and that default for me is english. im not entirely sure it means translation in the way i first thought.

for now i used a work around by skipping metafields and saving the info as a customer note

company

The only downside is i now have to apply the info from the customer note to the account manually but itll do for now !