Does the customer record have an externalID field?

Technical Q&A
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Hello,

I am integrating a Shopify store with a D365 ERP system. WHen an order is placed on the store, the integration platform picks up the order via the API, it creates the order in the D365 system. If the customer does not exist in D365 it will be added and the D365 new customer ID should be sent back to Shopify to update the customer record with this new D365 customer id.

  • Does the Shopify customer record have a field to hold this D365 customer ID? Ideally it would be called externalID.

  • Can a data meta tag be added to a customer record?

Also, these fields would need to be in the sales order API json.

Thanks in advance!

Joe

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Well, it looks like there is no native field for externalID. You can add meta fields but they are not included in the customer object when you retrieve the customer, or an order, via the API.