Start building for customer accounts

Get started building customer account UI extensions by setting up your development environment. You'll use Shopify CLI to generate starter code for building your extension and automating common development tasks.

General requirements

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You've created a Partner account.
You've created a new development store. The development store must use the Checkout and Customer Accounts Extensibility developer preview, and should be pre-populated with test data, including an order that's associated with the email address you'll use to log in to the customer account experience.
You're using the latest version of Shopify CLI.
You're using the latest version of Chrome or Firefox.

Steps

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Run the following command to scaffold an app:
Select Start by adding your first extension.
Navigate to your app directory:
Run the following command to create a new extension:
Choose Customer account UI.
Start your development server to build your app and preview your extension:

Next steps

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Learn common use cases for customer account UI extensions with the following tutorials:

Inline extensions

Build an extension that displays the loyalty points earned from an order and enables customers to leave a review.

Order action menu extensions

Build an extension on the order action menu that enables customers to report problems with their orders.

Full-page extensions

Build full-page extensions for customers to add and edit products on a wishlist.