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January 1, 2024

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* 2024-01

# Removal of accepts marketing fields in Admin API customer resources

As of API version **2024-01**, the following customer resource fields have been removed: `acceptsMarketing`, `acceptsMarketingUpdatedAt`, and `MarketingOptInLevel`. They have been deprecated since **2022-04** and the field `emailMarketingConsent` should be used instead.

Learn more about the affected resources:

* `Customer` object in [GraphQL Queries](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/2024-01/objects/Customer).
* `CustomerInput` object on [GraphQL Mutations](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/2024-01/input-objects/CustomerInput).
* `customer` resource in [REST](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/2024-01/resources/customer).
* `customers/create`, `customers/delete`, `customers/disable`, `customers/enable`, and `customers/update` webhook topics (<https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-rest/2024-01/resources/webhook#event-topics>).