Three of our stores were suddenly shut down

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Topic summary

Multiple Shopify stores owned by a US-based merchant suddenly became inactive without explanation. The merchant contacted live support multiple times and was told the case was escalated to a specialized team, but no email notification was received despite checking spam/junk.

Recent developments:

  • Support advised that inactive store cases are handled only by a specialized team and cannot be addressed via the public forum. A help guide about inactive stores was shared.
  • The merchant reported missing the expected escalation email and ongoing lack of updates during a peak sales weekend, impacting sales, loyalty point usage, and access to installation videos hosted on the store.
  • Support requested a ticket number to relay internally for queue verification; the merchant provided ticket 41290907 and noted their support inbox doesn’t show an escalated status.
  • Another merchant reported experiencing the same issue and expressed frustration.

Status and next steps:

  • Case remains unresolved; awaiting specialized team follow-up.
  • Support indicated they can pass the provided ticket to internal operations to confirm appropriate handling and queue placement.

Open questions:

  • Root cause of the shutdown and timeline for reactivation remain unknown.
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Three of our stores were shut down with no explanation as to why. I’ve chatted with several support individuals who keep telling me to wait for a special team to look into it - but nobody ever gets back to me.

Anyone else have this happen? I have no way of getting someone to contact me as to why…

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Say more… we are located in the US - Wisconsin

Whenever I look at the map where it shows our orders comes through, it always puts our dot over in Kansas

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Yes to both

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Hi, @Stephen_Weber1 .

Thanks for reaching out in the Community Forums about this. I can understand how unexpected it must’ve been to find out that your stores are no longer active.

To set the proper expectation with you here, we don’t provide account-specific support via the Community Forums, so we won’t be able to check your account or support ticket from our end. While our live support team members can provide excellent assistance, inactive store cases like your one here require a specialized team’s assistance.

You mentioned that you’ve been in contact with our live support team — can you provide more context about your conversation with them for me? Did they perhaps mention or confirm that your case would be escalated to a specialist team for further investigation?

If your store is unavailable, you may also have received an email from one of our specialist teams in regards to the situation. So if you haven’t already done so, I recommend going through your email’s junk and spam folders thoroughly to ensure that a communication from our specialist team hasn’t been missed.

For more information about inactive stores, feel free to go through our guide here.

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Thanks for reaching out. I’ve talked to several support people - all telling me that an email with a case number (they gave me the case number) was sent. I don’t have an email, I’ve checked all through junk.

Was told it was escalated and they would resend the email but I haven’t received it.

This is beyond frustrating. This is labor day weekend and I’m missing out on all of our sales. I’ve got customers emailing me wanting to use their loyalty points and they can’t. I have other customers who need to see our installation videos and they can’t view them either.

Just left completely in the dark with no idea of what is wrong and when someone from this “special team” is actually going to get back to me.

I have alot of money invested in shopify. In a panic I’ve been looking at other solutions available to take our site to. I hate them all. I’ve been with Shopify since 2009 so no clue what is wrong - customer service has always been great up until now. This really needs to get resolved!

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Thanks for sharing further context on the situation, @Stephen_Weber1 .

I definitely understand your frustration. If you’ve received confirmation that your ticket has been escalated to one of our specialized teams, rest assured that you’ll receive a follow up as soon as possible. Our team intends to reply with any updates to support tickets as quickly as we can — while our turnaround time can be a bit longer than expected at times, this is only to ensure that the proper steps are being taken so that we can best address the situation for all parties involved.

As previously mentioned, I won’t be able to check for any support tickets myself via the Community Forums, due to security and privacy reasons. However if you share one of your ticket numbers here with me, I can pass this on to our internal operations team. Where necessary, they’ll be able to review your ticket on our end to ensure that the most appropriate support has been given to you, and that your ticket is within the right support queue.

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This is my ticket number 41290907

The icon in my support inbox doesn’t show the escalated symbol

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Yes. Me. I’m furious.