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Customers & Marketing

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Create coupons and discounts

Create percentage, fixed amount, free product, and local free-delivery promotions with safe date rules.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Manage customers in the directory

Use one tenant-scoped directory for registered accounts, guest contacts, orders, notification state, and loyalty.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Send newsletters and email

Use the inbox, one-off composer, newsletters, and email settings for the right kind of customer communication.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Configure the Loyalty Program

Set earning, redemption, signup, repeat-order, and referral rewards while keeping point value predictable.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Filter, segment, tag, and contact customers

Find the right audience using built-in segments, spend thresholds, subscription state, tags, and search.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Create and edit customer records

Add a customer manually, review their history, manage notes, and understand account deletion boundaries.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Issue gift cards and store credit

Sell and issue stored value while understanding checkout, ledger, refund, and account requirements.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Manage customer notification preferences

Understand category-level email, push, and SMS preferences and keep marketing separate from transactional messages.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Configure text messaging and SMS credits

Fund event texts, understand message lanes, export consent records, and explain the Scale allowance.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Import customers from CSV

Map email, phone, consent, and optional loyalty columns to safely upsert customer records.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Sell customer subscriptions

Offer recurring physical products with fixed cadences, Square card-on-file billing, and renewal management.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Customer accounts and order history

Explain storefront sign-in, verification codes, account panels, and the difference between accounts and email subscriptions.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Import an existing customer subscription

Move recurring customers into Cottage CMS with standing selections and a customer authorization link.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Message customers from orders and segments

Use order and customer shortcuts to open the right conversation or compose an audience-scoped message.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Chat with customers

Respond to storefront conversations from Messages and keep unread and order context synchronized.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Collect and publish reviews

Configure review collection, moderate the inbox, import existing reviews, and display approved social proof.

Updated Aug 21, 2026

Manage active subscriptions, skips, edits, and cancellations

Use Customer Subscriptions to review status, edit standing selections, skip a period, resend authorization, or cancel future renewals with the right customer expectation.

Updated Aug 21, 2026