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Accounts & reviews

Two trust features that most themes treat as afterthoughts.

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Customer accounts

VARAHI uses Shopify’s native customer accounts — the same accounts your customers already have from the standard “Customer accounts” app — rendered inside the header in the theme’s own styling.
This is deliberately not a custom login form. Building a custom account system means handling password resets, sessions, MFA and email verification yourself, and getting any of it wrong is a security incident. Shopify’s accounts are free, hardened, and already there.

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The account menu

The button opens a menu with the standard destinations:
  • Sign in / Register
  • My account
  • My orders
  • Log out
The menu is keyboard accessible, closes on Escape and on outside click, and returns focus to the trigger when it closes.
Do not build a second account system in a custom section. VARAHI’s header button is wired to Shopify’s accounts; a parallel login form will produce duplicate accounts and confused customers.

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Reviews

The Product Reviews section reads from product metafields rather than from a specific app, so it works with any review app that writes to metafields.

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Metafields required

The verified badge only renders when reviews.verified is truthy. If your app uses a different key, the badge will not appear — this is the one metafield the theme is strict about, because a badge that appears on unverified reviews is misleading.

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How the section resolves which product to review

That third fallback is convenient but it can surprise you. If you point the homepage reviews at a product and later delete it, the homepage will start reviewing a different product without telling you. Re-point the setting after any product deletion.

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What it renders

A rating summary — large score, star display, review count — followed by the individual review cards, each with an author, date, verified badge and body. The empty state is deliberate: a visible, honest empty state rather than a missing section, because a missing section shifts the page layout.

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Trust, in one place

Both features feed the same goal: reduce the perceived risk of buying an expensive product from a store the shopper has never heard of.

Product reviews

The section reference.

Main product

The buy box, where most of these signals appear.