Shopify metafields allow e-commerce merchants to store and display custom information unique to their products, collections, orders, or customers, enabling greater personalization and more detailed content management tailored to their specific business needs.
Metafields consist of the following:
Namespace: used to categorize the metafield
Key: used to specify the exact metafield
Value: the data used to 'do something'
Metafields are created in Shopify admin and require 3rd parties to request access to this custom data in a particular way. As such, it is required that you complete the steps below in order for our API calls to Shopify to return metafield data.
Enabling metafields on the Storefront API:
Navigate to Settings in Shopify's Admin dashboard
Select Metafields and metaobjects
Click on a given Shopify data type, ex. Products
Select an existing metafield or click Add Definition on the top-right to create a new one
Add a name, namespace and key then any relevant values.
Scroll down to the Options section
Ensure the Storefront API Access is enabled.
Save the metafield.
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