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customerUpdate

mutation

Updates the customer's personal information.

Arguments

Anchor to inputinput •CustomerUpdateInput!required: Specifies the input fields for the customer update.

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Anchor to CustomerUpdatePayload returnsCustomerUpdatePayload returns

Anchor to customercustomer •Customer: The customer's personal information that has been updated.
Anchor to userErrorsuserErrors •[UserErrorsCustomerUserErrors!]!non-null: The list of errors that occurred from executing the mutation.

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Updates a customer's first and last name
customerUpdate reference

Examples

Open in GraphiQL

const { admin } = await authenticate.admin(request);

const response = await customer.graphql(

`#graphql

mutation customerUpdate($input: CustomerUpdateInput!) {

customerUpdate(input: $input) {

userErrors {

field

message

}

customer {

firstName

lastName

}

}`,

{

variables: {

"input": {

"firstName": "Quinn",

"lastName": "Ishida"

}

);

const data = await response.json();

mutation customerUpdate($input: CustomerUpdateInput!) {
  customerUpdate(input: $input) {
    userErrors {
      field
      message
    }
    customer {
      firstName
      lastName
    }
  }
}

curl -X POST \
https://shopify.com/<shop-id>/account/customer/api/2025-01/graphql/api/2025-01/graphql.json \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: {access_token}' \
-d '{
"query": "mutation customerUpdate($input: CustomerUpdateInput!) { customerUpdate(input: $input) { userErrors { field message } customer { firstName lastName } } }",
 "variables": {
    "input": {
      "firstName": "Quinn",
      "lastName": "Ishida"
    }
  }
}'

const { admin } = await authenticate.admin(request);

const response = await customer.graphql(
  `#graphql
  mutation customerUpdate($input: CustomerUpdateInput!) {
    customerUpdate(input: $input) {
      userErrors {
        field
        message
      }
      customer {
        firstName
        lastName
      }
    }
  }`,
  {
    variables: {
      "input": {
        "firstName": "Quinn",
        "lastName": "Ishida"
      }
    },
  },
);

const data = await response.json();

const client = new shopify.clients.Graphql({session});
const data = await client.query({
  data: {
    "query": `mutation customerUpdate($input: CustomerUpdateInput!) {
      customerUpdate(input: $input) {
        userErrors {
          field
          message
        }
        customer {
          firstName
          lastName
        }
      }
    }`,
    "variables": {
      "input": {
        "firstName": "Quinn",
        "lastName": "Ishida"
      }
    },
  },
});

Input variables

JSON

{

"input": {

"firstName": "Quinn",

"lastName": "Ishida"

}

Response

JSON

{

"customerUpdate": {

"userErrors": [],

"customer": {

"firstName": "Quinn",

"lastName": "Ishida"

}