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Auto-sync audiences from Shopify & WooCommerce to TikTok Ads Manager.

Build a segment of customers from your Shopify or WooCommerce data in Metorik and sync it to TikTok Ads Manager as a Custom Audience that keeps itself up to date.

  • Any Segment
  • Syncs Automatically
  • Hashed Emails Only
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What Metorik's Audience Sync for TikTok does:

Create any customer, order or subscription segment and sync it into a customer-file Custom Audience in TikTok to retarget customers, exclude recent buyers from prospecting and Smart+ campaigns, or seed a Lookalike Audience.

1. Create your segment

Start from customers, profile, orders or subscriptions and refine with 500+ filters. The estimated audience size updates as you go.

2. Hashed and synced

Metorik hashes every identifier with SHA-256 and creates the Custom Audience in TikTok , or syncs into one you already have.

3. Updates and resyncs

People who now match are added, people who don't are removed (or optionally never removed). Pause, duplicate or force a sync any time.

The full story, with the audience builder and sync controls in detail: Advertising audience sync

TikTok only matches by email, so audience size matters.

TikTok needs 1,000 matches before a Custom Audience can be used. Metorik will automatically create a new TikTok audience once your segment has 1,000+ contacts. Broad segments work best for TikTok: all-time customers, 2+ orders, top spenders, or lapsed 90+ days.

Kept above the line. If removals would take a live audience below 1,000, Metorik automatically holds those changes and retries them on later syncs, once the audience is large enough again.

Audiences TikTok advertisers build first:

Exclude recent customers

Customers who purchased in the last 30/60/90 days, excluded from prospecting ad groups and Smart+ campaigns. Under 1,000 in 30 days? Widen the window.

Seed lookalikes from your top buyers

1,000+ top spenders or repeat customers as the source for a Narrow, Balanced or Broad Lookalike Audience – a source Metorik keeps current.

Win back lapsed customers

Last ordered 90+ days ago and no active subscription – retargeted in-feed on TikTok with new-season creative.

Cross-sell across all your history

Bought product A but never product B, ever – your full store history, so the segment has a better chance of clearing TikTok's 1,000.

TikTok audience syncing live in three steps:

1. Connect TikTok Ads

Connect TikTok Ads from Metorik's integrations and grant the audience permission, then pick the advertiser account.

2. Build the audience

Choose a new Custom Audience or an existing customer-file one, select customers, orders or subscriptions, and add your filters.

3. Create & start syncing

The first sync runs straight away. TikTok takes 24–48 hours to process an upload, then Metorik keeps the audience in sync automatically.

TikTok Audience Sync FAQs

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What is TikTok Custom Audience sync?

Metorik's audience sync turns a segment of your Shopify or WooCommerce customers, orders or subscriptions into a customer-file Custom Audience in the TikTok advertiser account you choose, and keeps the two in sync automatically.

What's the minimum audience size for TikTok?

TikTok needs at least 1,000 matched people in a Custom Audience before it can be used in an ad group. Metorik won't create a new TikTok audience until your segment has 1,000 eligible contacts.

Not every email will match a TikTok account, so aim comfortably above that. Once an audience exists, smaller updates sync as normal. If removals would take it below 1,000, Metorik holds those changes and retries them on later syncs when the audience is large enough.

What data is sent to TikTok?

Only email addresses, normalised and hashed with SHA-256 before they leave Metorik. TikTok compares the hashes with its own user data to find matches – it never receives the plain-text addresses. Contacts without an email address are left out of the sync.

How long until the audience is ready in TikTok Ads Manager?

TikTok says an uploaded list takes 24 to 48 hours to become available as a Custom Audience. Metorik shows the sync status and the audience size TikTok reports, so you can see when it's ready without leaving Metorik.

Can I build a TikTok Lookalike Audience from a synced audience?

Yes. Choose the synced Custom Audience as the source when you create a Lookalike Audience in TikTok Ads Manager, then pick Narrow, Balanced or Broad. The source needs at least 1,000 people. TikTok refreshes lookalikes used in active ad groups twice a week, and Metorik keeps the source current in between.

Can I sync into a TikTok audience I already have?

Yes. Choose an eligible existing customer-file audience in the selected advertiser account when you create the sync. Metorik only removes contacts it added itself, so anything you uploaded manually is left alone.

Do TikTok Custom Audiences expire?

TikTok says an audience may expire if it isn't used for a long period, and its status then shows as unavailable. TikTok doesn't say how long that period is. If that happens, create a fresh audience from the same segment in Metorik.

Does this replace the TikTok ad-cost integration?

No, they work together. The cost integration pulls your TikTok spend into Metorik for ROAS, profit and attribution reporting. Audience sync pushes segments the other way, into the advertiser account you pick for each audience. Creating audiences needs an extra TikTok permission, so stores that connected TikTok earlier for costs are asked to reconnect it in Metorik once.

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