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This is unfortunate timing
It’s Cyber Monday and Shopify admin is down. @ShopifySupport @harleyf pic.twitter.com/wrvQ7CthU2December 1, 2025
Shopify couldn’t really have picked a worse day, other than Black Friday, to have an outage.
A number of frustrated store owners (above) have taken to X to vent their feelings – as one has commented, “as a small business owner this is so bad”.
Hopefully, it won’t last too much longer – the Shopify status page has it logged as “degraded performance” across areas like “API and mobile” and “Point of Sale”, rather than a partial or major outage. But at the time of writing, reports on Downdetector are still on the rise…
2025-12-01T16:02:57.831Z
What has Shopify said?
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Shopify has confirmed on its status page that it has a log-in issue, with the incident report headed saying “some merchants encountering error messages within their admins”.
Its latest post around half an hour ago at 10.26am ET / 3.26pm GMT said that “to help avoid complications, please remain logged in on any devices that are currently logged in”.
That advice may have come too late for many users, but if you use Shopify it’s worth remaining logged in so you’re not further hit by the issues. Right now, the reports on Downdetector are unfortunately continuing to climb, with reports in the US close to the 4,000 mark.
2025-12-01T15:53:27.490Z
A global outage
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Shopify is a global e-commerce platform and today’s issue are hitting stores around the world. In the US, there have been almost 3,700 reports from frustrated users, while in the UK the reports have stabilized at around 1,300.
The main knock-on effect is Shopify users being unable to log into their accounts and process orders, which is particularly bad timing since it’s Cyber Monday and we’re running into the holiday season.
Shopify hasn’t yet revealed a cause of the issue, but said on its status page at 10.26am ET / 3.26pm GMT that it was “continuing to investigate the current issue”.
