I’m trying to permanently delete a customer tag (not just remove it from a customer). I want to delete the tag so that it doesn’t show up in the list of “available” tags for customer tags. Anyone know how to do that?

Im going to keep this short and sweet in hopes shopify sees. Weve been following this thread for years, as deleting or archiving customer tags is our biggest feature request. Shopify - We literally do not even use customer tags due to there are so many old/outdated/close match tags in our list, it…

Im also dumbfounded that this simple matter hasnt been fixed in 2 years! So many good things about Shopify, so many things that are mind numbing. Shopify/Flow and Email all seem to be the obvious choice with marketing because the products are part of the entire intergration. The tools that Mailchimp…

Hi Oliva , It is now nearly two years since this issue was brought up - is the Shopify tech team anywhere near finding a resolution to a problem that is an issue for all Shopify stores? We have three stores with the exact same issue with unused customer tags appearing.

Olivia: This is incorrect. Tags that are not appended to any customers still show up in the list of available tags.

Welcome to Shopify! You’ll find many such limitations and oversights.

Same problem here. This need to be solved!

Hey Shopify team - I’m another customer in need of this. Can you please provide an update on when this will be possible? We use Mailchimp for emails, and they have a 5,000 tag sync limit in their system. In the past thousands of tags were generated that are no longer needed, so we deleted the tags,…

We would greatly appreciate this functionality as well.

We have just migrated from Wordpress / WooCommerce to Shopify because we wanted to simplify our site maintenance / build and leverage other great features. But we have just come across this limitation after creating lots of test tags which now need deleting. Very frustrating! If we’d know we’d have …

How can I permanently delete customer tags?

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SeanMP May 12, 2025, 7:03pm 128

Year three asking for this fix. Jesus Christ.

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How can I permanently delete customer tags?

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