Merchant reports Shopify Payments payouts have been held for over two weeks due to a “bank review,” with no specific reason or status provided despite contacting multiple advisors. The hold is severely affecting cash flow for a newly opened small restaurant; the merchant demands concrete details rather than generic updates.
Shopify staff explains payout holds can occur for various reasons. If no additional documents are requested, it’s likely a standard review and the merchant can continue selling until the hold is lifted; if documents are requested, they must be submitted first. Community moderators cannot access account or ticket details, and only a specialized team can provide specifics. Links were provided to payout-hold documentation and to contact support.
Status: Unresolved/ongoing. No cause or ETA disclosed.
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For no reason (I haven’t been provided one to this date), Shopify decided to hold my payout because of a bank review. It’s been more than two weeks, and I only had the same response from three different advisors with a copy/paste-like answer lacking specifics about the issue or status. You cannot find real human support. It’s hugely hurting for my business (a small restaurant that just opened) not to have access to my money.
If a real person wants to take care of this, the ticket # is 42681153.
IF YOUR ANSWER IS GOING TO BE, "SORRY, WE ARE WORKING ON IT, " I DON’T NEED IT. I WILL APPRECIATE ONLY REAL ANSWER ADDRESSING/CLARIFYING THE SPECIFICS OF THE PROBLEM OR A SPECIFIC STATUS OF THE ISSUE.
Hi, @ichiba . I completely understand the impact this can have and I’m happy to share some information to help you with this.
Shopify payout holds can happen for a number of reasons, but if you are not being asked to submit more information on your end, this is likely just a standard review. If this is a standard review, you should be able to continue selling and working on your store while it is being reviewed, and you would need to wait for the review to be completed for the hold to be released. If you are being asked to submit more information, we will need you to do that so the team can review it all before releasing the hold. You can learn more about Shopify Payments payout holds on this page.
For context, we cannot see any of your account or ticket information here over the Shopify Community so we will not be able to tell you exactly what caused this hold or confirm the status of your ticket here. In addition, payout holds are handled by a specific team and only that team will be able to address this with you further. So while you can reach out to our support team here to ensure your ticket is being worked on by the correct team, a Support Advisor would not have more detail than that to share with you.
If you’ve spoken to our support team and have been told your ticket is being worked on by the correct team, waiting for their reply will be the best thing to do going forward. If you have any questions about this you can also reply to that email thread with any questions you have so the team working on your ticket can continue assisting you.
Please let me know if you have any questions I can help with in the meantime.