New customer accounts name change

Changes are coming to how we refer to customer accounts when extensions launch on Dec 11:

New customer accounts will become customer accounts

Classic customer accounts will become legacy customer accounts

This change will take place across all Shopify-owned surfaces, including the Shopify admin, help docs, and dev docs.

Recommended action

As part of this change, we recommend that you make the relevant updates to any references to new and classic customer accounts in your product and documentation.

There will be no breaking changes to APIs or your products as part of this update.

This change reflects the fact that new customer accounts are the future and although we have not yet announced a timeline, classic customer accounts will eventually be retired.