Login Issues

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner reports that their website fails to recognize logged-in customers, particularly affecting trade account holders who need to be authenticated to view prices. The issue resolves temporarily when customers log out and back in, but recurs after several weeks.

Potential Causes:

  • Stale session cookies
  • Caching problems
  • Custom logic conflicts for trade accounts

Suggested Troubleshooting Steps:

  • Identify whether the login system is controlled by the Shopify theme itself or third-party apps/plugins
  • Contact the relevant app support team if plugins are involved
  • Reach out to Shopify Support for theme-related issues

Temporary Workarounds:

  • Implement a forced refresh or session check script after login
  • Prompt customers to periodically log out and back in

While Shopify has acknowledged similar session-related bugs, no confirmed fix timeline is publicly available. The issue remains unresolved and continues to cause customer frustration and potential sales impact.

Summarized with AI on October 28. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

Hello,

I am having an issue where my website does not identify a customer as logged in despite them being logged in. My website (whitakerrug.com) is set up so that prices are hidden for customers if they are not logged in and registered as a trade account. The website does not seem to recognize that a user is logged in and identifies every user as “logged out”.

The issue is resolved if the customer logs out and logs back in, but the issue arrises again after a few weeks. ChatGPT says that this is a known issue and will be fixed in the summer, but I do not know if that is true.

This is causing my customers a lot of frustration and I would love to know some more information about how to fix this issue or when it will be fixed by shopify.

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This issue often stems from stale session cookies or caching problems, causing Shopify to misidentify logged-in users as logged out, especially with custom logic for trade accounts. While Shopify has acknowledged similar session-related bugs and is working on improvements, there’s no confirmed fix timeline publicly available. In the meantime, adding a forced refresh or session check script after login, or prompting customers to log out and back in periodically, can serve as a temporary workaround.

Hello @WhitakerRugs

Concerning this issue, you need to further check if this login system is controlled by the theme from Shopify directly or by other apps or plugins you installed before. If it is due to other apps or plugins, better to get in touch with the related app support team in time and push them to resolve this issue in time. If it is from the Shopify end, you can give this feedback to the Shopify Support Team and let them help find out a temporary solution before it is solved eternally, or it will hurt store conversion and sales, and influence the backend data analysis very much.

In short, do the best to locate the issue cause code, and find another way to let users finish the purchase properly. Thank you!