Managing messages from your customers

2 min read · Updated November 1, 2026

The Contact Inbox holds the messages customers send you from the contact form on your store. Use it to read them and reply.

If you do not see the reply box or Delete, your role does not include them. You can still read every message.

Step 1. Open the Contact Inbox

In the side menu, under Sales, pick Contact Inbox. Your messages are listed newest first.

Everything your storefront's contact form sends lands in this list, newest first.

Step 2. Check the two cards

Total Messages shows how many messages you have. Unread shows how many you have not opened yet.

Total Messages counts everything you received; Unread tells you what share is still waiting.

Step 3. Find a message

Type a name, an email or a subject in the search box. To see only some messages, choose Unread, Read or Replied in the list beside it.

Search sender names, addresses and subjects, then narrow to unread, read or replied.

Step 4. Open the message

Click the row. The message opens with the sender's name, email and the date it arrived.

To change a message's status without opening it, use the envelope button on its row: Mark as Read or Mark as Unread.

The subject is the title, with the sender's name, address and the moment it arrived.

Step 5. Reply

Write your answer in the Send Reply box under the message, then press Send Reply. The line Your reply will be sent to shows the email the customer typed in the form, and the counter under the box shows how many of the 5000 characters you used.

You see Reply sent. Your answer stays under the message in Your Reply.

Write your answer here; the line above the box names the address it is going to.

Step 6. Delete a message

Press the bin button on the message's row, or Delete inside the open message, then press Delete to confirm.

Deleting asks once, and then the message is gone for good.

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