Main issue: Merchant is locked out after two-factor authentication (2FA) rollout and cannot contact a human to close their Shopify account. They don’t have a smartphone for 2FA, business has been inactive ~6 months, and a third-party app keeps billing; concerned about upcoming annual renewal.
Attempts and obstacles: Support channels appear to require login; phone support not listed. User created a secondary account to post and tried the AI chat with “can’t login,” but is forced into an “update account details” loop. They provided their account email and last app charge ($10.17 on Dec 3) as context and requested email-based help to close the account.
Support guidance: Authenticated chat is still available without logging in. Steps: fully sign out of the Help Center, clear browser cache/cookies, then use the AI chat with the prompt “can’t login” to connect to support. Secondary account can remain signed in, but Help Center must be signed out.
Status: Unresolved. Screenshots provided; next action is to retry access per instructions.
Short story: I need to speak to someone in support, my account registered through contact@lambsquarters.farm in order to close my account. I’ve created this new account simply to access this forum.
Long story: about 6 months or so ago I received the emails about 2 factor authentication. I informed support at the time that I did not have a smartphone to do it, they sent me some generic instructions which didn’t help.
I got busy and wasn’t able to figure it out, so eventually when I tried to log in, I was not able to anymore. When I tried to contact support I realized I couldn’t because I needed to be logged in, which I can’t do. Online chat is all AI now and there are no phone numbers listed.
My business has been non-operational for 6 months, and I have a third party app that continues to bill me monthly, and I desperately need to close the whole shopify account before my annual renewal comes up.
Can someone please help me escape this purgatory? I’ve never in my life had to endure such poor business practices as to not be able to access a human being and being locked out of my own paid service…
Thank you for reaching out about this and I can definitely appreciate how important it is to get this resolved.
While our Help Center does have our AI chat assistant, we continue to offer our authenticated support chat to all our merchants. Even if you aren’t able to sign in, you should still be able to connect with our support team.
Make sure you are signed out of the Help Center and then connect with our chat support through the AI chat. You can use the prompt “can’t login”, like in my screenshot below to get connected.
That doesn’t work either, when I do that I get the below screen asking me to update my “account details” on this fake account I opened just so I can start this thread that lead me to the same problem. When I even do that and update my fake account, go back to that screen, refresh, it says the same thing… I see you are from the support team. Would it be so hard to verify I have an active account, username contact@lambsquarters.farm, authenticate what I am articulating to you and send me an email to help me close my account? I’m not even asking for a refund of the charges I have been getting for the past 6 months, I just want to get off of this platform, please.
ETA: if you need another form of authentication, my last billing was Dec 3, charged $10.17 USD for APPS charges (that I’m not using).
You will want to clear your browser cache and cookies and ensure you are fully signed out of the Help Center to access our support for account login issues using the steps I shared above.
You can continue signed into this secondary account, but you are correct that it requires some basic contact information before you can do so.
When fully signed out of the Help Center you can use the prompts I shared to access our support team without having to login first.
