I would like to set certain properties on cart objects using the storefront API and metafields. ‘Carts’ themselves don’t have metafields, but orders do. I’ve created two order-level metafields, and I was seemingly able to save them on the cart in the following way (documented here: cartMetafieldsSet…

Hey @sebastienpowell :waving_hand: I was able to speak with some folks on our cart/checkout product team and we confirmed that cart metafields don’t currently pass over to completed orders at the moment. We are looking at enabling this in the future, but I don’t have a guaranteed timeline on that t…

Saving data to cart / order meta fields

Hydrogen and Storefront APIs

Gil-Shopify February 4, 2026, 7:23pm 10

@sebastienpowell Hi Sebastien,

We now support optionally copying cart metafields to the order: New: Persist cart metafields to orders with `cartToOrderCopyable`

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Saving data to cart / order meta fields

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