Customers can edit their subscriptions, update billing info, or see their purchase history through the customer portal via their customer account logins. You can share a link with your customers manually or through your notification emails. This comprehensive guide reviews the sections of the customer portal and the settings you can adjust to enable or disable certain features.
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Customer portal types explained
You can choose to host your customer portal either directly in ReCharge or on your own storefront. The standalone page on ReCharge looks similar to the admin-facing portal you see when logged into ReCharge. The alternative Storefront option adopts the style and branding of your website.
Storefront customer portal
The storefront customer portal option allows your customers to manage their subscriptions directly on your store, so you can keep all your existing branding.
Standalone customer portal
The standalone customer portal uses a similar template as the admin-facing customer portal.
Enable the customer portal
- In the ReCharge Dashboard, click the wrench icon.
- Select Customer portal.
- Under Customer portal location, select Storefront if you would like to host the customer portal on your website. If you would like to use the ReCharge standalone customer portal, select Standalone page on ReCharge.
Testing the customer portal
In ReCharge, select Customers at the top, then search for any customer. Click on a customer name and on the following screen hover over the link icon next to their name. Copy and paste the link into a different browser or in an Incognito window to see the customer-facing view.
Customizing the storefront customer portal
In the ReCharge Dashboard, select the wrench icon and click Customer Portal. Under Customize styles, you can customize the style of your storefront customer portal header and footer with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. You can also modify the credit card page with CSS.
Customer portal controls
All Customer Portal controls can be set to Storeowner only or Customer and Storeowner.
Delivery schedule – Allows the customer to view future charge dates. Depending on other settings, they can also make adjustments to their order.
Edit shipping address – Customers are able to make updates to their shipping schedule.
Edit upcoming order date – Allows customers the ability to adjust their next order date.
Edit upcoming quantity – Customers can adjust the number of products they receive in their next order.
Add products to subscriptions– Allows customers to add additional products to their subscription. For example, if you are a coffee company, this would allow a whole beans customer to add a subscription for coffee filters to their account.
Change variants – Gives customers the ability to change the variant of the product. Using the coffee example, a customer subscribed to the Ethiopian blend could switch from whole beans to ground.
Swap products – Gives customers the ability to switch their subscription product for another subscription product in your store.
Skip shipment – Customers are given the option to skip their next order. For example, if a customer is going on vacation, they could skip that month's delivery.
Edit frequency – This allows your customer to change how often they receive a product. For example, from once a month to every two weeks.
In addition, you can specify the manner a customer can edit their frequency. You can allow customers to choose any frequency or limit the frequency to the settings on the ruleset.
Allow customers to input the discount code on customer portal – As the store owner, you can add discount codes to the Customer Portal through the ReCharge Dashboard. For more information, visit Applying a discount to an existing subscription. If you would like to give customers the ability to add a discount code on their end, ensure the box is checked.
Cancel subscription – Allows customers to cancel their subscription. When set to Storeowner only, customers are given the store e-mail. When set to Storeowner and Customer, the customer will be shown your cancellation retention options.
In addition, you can specify your store e-mail address and how many charges must be processed before the customer is allowed to cancel.
Reactivate subscription – Customers can reactivate their subscriptions from the Customer Portal.
Pro account features
In addition to the standard customer portal controls, you can adjust the following settings:
One-time purchases – You can enable or disable whether customers can add one-time products through their Customer Portal.
Products available for purchase – You can choose whether customers can only add one-time products available in your ReCharge Rulesets or any product in your Shopify store.
Additional fields
By default, customers can also view and edit the following:
- Update the billing address
- Securely update credit card information
- View past orders in the purchase history section
Access the Customer Portal
There are three ways your customers can access their customer portal:
- A direct link provided by the merchant
- A direct link accessed via their customer notification
- Logging into their Shopify customer account.
For detailed information on how to access the Customer Portal, visit Accessing the Customer Portal
Instructions for your customers
If you'd like to provide your customers with documentation on how to manage their subscriptions, but you would like to not link to our ReCharge documents, feel free to use the instructions on this page for your own website.