Create or delete custom fields

Creates or deletes custom fields in the profile schema. To create custom fields, include a request body. To delete all custom fields, pass an empty JSON.

Each account has one profile schema. Updating it with this request will substitute the previous version.

Learn more about the Profile System and its other API endpoints.

⚠️ The Profile System is only compatible with stores using the PII data architecture from Data Protection Plus, which is in closed beta phase, only available in select regions.

This feature is part of VTEX Shield. If you are already a VTEX customer and want to adopt VTEX Shield for your business, please contact Commercial Support. Additional fees may apply. If you are not yet a customer but are interested in this solution, please complete our contact form.

Permissions

Any user or API key must have at least one of the appropriate License Manager resources to be able to successfully run this request. Otherwise they will receive a status code 403 error. These are the applicable resources for this endpoint:

There are no applicable predefined roles for this resource list. You must create a custom role and add at least one of the resources above in order to use this endpoint.To learn more about machine authentication at VTEX, see Authentication overview.

❗ To prevent integrations from having excessive permissions, consider the best practices for managing API keys when assigning License Manager roles to integrations.