Overview

The Equinox Customer Service is the identity and engagement backbone of the Equinox 9.x commerce platform — giving every brand a single, trusted view of their customers across all channels, storefronts, and devices, from first registration through every purchase and loyalty interaction.

Business Value

Capability Business Outcome
Unified Customer Identity One authoritative profile per customer across every channel and storefront — no data silos, no duplicate records
Flexible Authentication Support any login method shoppers expect — social, enterprise SSO, or traditional credentials — without re-platforming
Personalisation Foundation Rich first-party data (wishlists, preferences, consents, payment methods) fuels targeted campaigns and personalised experiences
Privacy & Compliance Ready Built-in GDPR export and erasure workflows with configurable consent templates reduce regulatory risk in every market
Multi-Brand, Multi-Region Serve multiple brands or regions from shared infrastructure with complete data isolation per tenant
Open & Extensible Plug in your preferred payment, notification, and address validation providers through the Equinox Marketplace — no core changes required

Who Uses It

Persona How They Interact
Shoppers Register, log in, manage their profile, addresses, wishlists, and saved payment methods
Commerce Managers Configure per-store customer journeys, authentication flows, and consent templates
Marketing Teams Access first-party customer data for segmentation, consent-based campaigns, and loyalty opt-ins
CSR Agents View full customer context, add notes, and act on behalf of customers for faster resolution
Administrators Invite team members, assign roles, manage instances, and handle GDPR data requests

Core Features

# Domain Feature
1 Users Create, read, update, delete customer and admin user profiles (contact details, status, roles, user type)
2 Authentication Login, logout, OAuth2 Authorization Code Grant (Cognito), JWT issuance
3 IDP (Native) Login, activate, password change/reset, MFA (TOTP + OTP), security questions — connector-agnostic via IamInvoker
4 SSO SAML 2.0 and OIDC/Cognito single sign-on flows; redirect to provider, callback handling, JWT issuance
5 Addresses Billing and shipping addresses per user, with pluggable validation extension point
6 Consents GDPR consent template definitions + per-user consent records
7 Lists Wish lists, favorites, save-for-later, custom lists of products/items; guest-to-registered migration
8 Payment Profiles Stored (tokenized) payment methods for fast checkout
9 Notes Internal CSR notes on user records
10 Attributes Custom extensible fields (typed: text, number, boolean, etc.) on user profiles
11 Instance Attributes Schema definitions for per-instance configuration properties (read-only, managed via migrations)
12 Blacklist Blocked email/identifiers prevented from registering (GLOBAL or per-instance scope)
13 Instances Tenant instance registry — each instance represents an isolated tenant
14 Search Config Typesense search index configuration (synonyms, boost rules, sort configs) for user data
15 Search Indexing Real-time Typesense indexing of user data via EventBridge Lambda handler
16 Discovery Tenant/login config discovery by email or domain for admin/B2B/B2C portals
17 Act-On-Behalf Generate and exchange one-time authorization codes for CSR agent impersonation
18 Internal Cross-service endpoint: count users by role (guard for eq-authservices role deletion)

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Revision History
2026-08-04 | JP – Created the page and added the content.