Enable Metafield's "Read and Write" access

2026-05-22

When you have error messages like

"Customer Account access is not enabled for this metafield. Enable Read and write in Shopify admin."

This metafield is read-only for customers. Change access to Read and write in Shopify admin."

then please refer to this article.

From

Shopify admin → Settings → Metafields and metaobjects

Select metafields definition owner type.

As an example, we select Customers metafields.

Then change the Customer Account API Access to "Read and Write"