# Error: Phone already taken

This message appears when your form is trying to create (or update) a Shopify customer, but the phone number submitted is already used by another customer in your Shopify admin.

✅ Nothing is broken! Shopify is preventing duplicate phone numbers for customer records (depending on your store settings).

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### 🔍 Why this happens

When a customer submits the form, Powerful Form sends the information to Shopify (example: Email, Name, Phone).

If the **phone number** is already attached to an existing Shopify customer, Shopify may reject the request and return:

**“Phone has already been taken”**

Common causes:

* You are testing multiple submissions using the same phone number
* Different customers share one phone number (family / company phone)
* The form is set to create customers, but your store requires phone numbers to be unique

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### ✅ How to solve it

**Steps**

1. Open the app > click **Forms** > open the form you want to edit
2. Click the **Integration** icon on the left side > enable **Shopify** and click on **Shopify** option

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3. Find **If customer already exists** and choose:

➡️ **Continue and ignore the error**

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4. Click save.

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#### **✅ Why use this option?**

This option helps prevent the submission from failing when the customer already exists in Shopify (usually because the email is already in your Customers list).

With this setting:

* &#x20;If the email already exists, the form submission can still continue
* Shopify will not create a duplicate customer and make no change to Shopify customer account
* The app will skip the “already exists” error and move on

> ⚠️ Note: This option does **not** update customer information.\
> If you want to update fields like **phone, name, or address**, choose **Continue and update customer information** instead.

4\. Click ” **Save”** to update the form

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#### Need More Help?

If you still need assistance, please contact us at [**support@powerfulform.com**](mailto:support@powerfulform.com). Our team will be happy to help you resolve any issues or guide you further.<br>