Why does registration show my store's country instead of customer's?

Topic summary

  • Issue: After completing store setup, a merchant tested Shopify’s customer accounts with a friend abroad. The friend’s newly registered account displayed the store’s registered country (South Korea) instead of the friend’s actual country.

  • Context: This occurred during a basic functionality check of the “customer accounts” feature to confirm registrations work as expected.

  • Impact/Concern: The country shown in the customer profile appears incorrect, potentially causing confusion about customer location data.

  • Request: Guidance on how to ensure a customer’s account reflects the customer’s real country rather than the store’s country.

  • Status: No solutions or troubleshooting steps provided yet; the question remains open and unresolved.

Summarized with AI on January 11. AI used: gpt-5.

Hello,

When I finished my store design and everything, I asked a friend from another country to register on my store just to check if the customer’s accounts option works but he said when he registered on my store his account showed the country where my store is registered which is South Korea but he is from another country. Please help me with this issue!

Sorry for my English

Thank you!