[Feature Request] Customer create/update/delete webhook

[nickm]

I'd like to request that webhooks be added which fires when a customer is created/updated/deleted.

I have an app which syncs customers and customer groups to Mad Mimi. A shop went and updated some of their customers to accept marketing. Due to the limitations of the API, and my own short-sightedness, my app was unaware of these manual changes. It'd be nice if, like many of the other objects in the API, a webhook is triggered as a result of actions like these.

Customers are also (most often) created and updated when orders are placed. It might be worth discussing whether both orders/create and customers/create or customers/update should be triggered. In the pro camp - it's consistent behaviour, easily understandeable, and developers can choose which webhook(s) to subscribe to depending on their needs. In the con camp - it's an extra call that shopify has to make and to which we have to respond.

I myself would prefer it to fire when the customer is created/updated/deleted for any reason. I would then unsubscribe from the various order webhooks, which I only use for the purpose of fetching and updating customers.  

What do we think?

Cheers,

Nick

[Brian Getting]

+1

I've thought about this for a while, and would love such a web hook. I actually see no reason to fire the hook when an order is created, since that would be redundant. It would be nice to see it fire whenever an admin creates/edits/destroy customer accounts, and also when a customer updates their information (if the store has customer accounts enabled).

Brian

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[Dave]

+1

I have a client that absolutely needs to trigger some code based on Customer created! I am sure there are plenty of Apps that could benefit from actions triggered by Customer changes. 

[Edward Ocampo-Gooding]

Sounds like a good idea to me.

We’ve added this to the roadmap. Thanks!

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