Setting up a custom customer portal domain
URLs are an important extension of your brand. With Recharge, you can easily configure custom domains for both the checkout and customer portal. This guide provides configuration steps to set up your CNAME and complete the custom customer portal domain process.
Before you start
- You must be on either the Recharge Pro plan or a custom pricing plan to use this setting.
- Your customer portal must use a Recharge-hosted customer portal theme or the hosted Theme Engine.
- For Shopify stores, the customer portal location must be set to Hosted by Recharge in your Customer Portal settings.
- If you have hard-coded your customer portal magic links in other places, such as within notifications or other templates, note that updating to a custom domain will not update the URL structure in the magic links. However, if you are using the
{{link}}
variable, the custom domain URL will auto-populate.
Step 1 - Set up your CNAME
Your CNAME is the new URL you would like to display to your customers. For example, https://yoursite.website2019.com
.
- Login to your domain service provider.
- Locate your DNS settings.
- Create a new CNAME and point it to
domains.rechargeapps.com.
Your CNAME can take either of the following forms, using the yoursite example:
yoursite
-
yoursite.website2022.com
Ensure that a period is present at the end of a fully qualified domain. Changes to the DNS records may take up to 72 hours to propagate.
Step 2 - Reach out to Recharge
Contact your Customer Success Manager or the Recharge support team with the newly created CNAME. Recharge will configure the domain in our system and notify you once the process is complete.