Can I force customers to create an account at checkout?

Customer accounts are managed by the ecommerce platform.

On the Shopify Checkout Integration, you can force customer accounts at checkout from your Shopify settings. See Shopify's Enabling or disabling customer accounts guide for more information. 

Login and account creation at checkout is not supported on the Recharge Checkout on Shopify or Recharge Checkout on BigCommerce. If the customer logs in before checkout, Recharge auto-populates the shipping and email address into the checkout fields for the customer.

If your store has a login form at checkout on the Recharge Checkout on Shopify, reach out to the Recharge Support team to update your checkout.