Looking for some help here… Our store is currently ‘frozen’ due to shopify being unable to charge/process the card that’s on the account for monthly fees, etc.
We’ve clicked on the ‘verify and pay’ button in the top right of the frozen page & it shows a turning circle for about a second then goes back to the standard ‘verify and pay’ black button? It’s not giving any error message in relation to the card, fund available etc (all the usual has been checked, spoken to bank etc). Even went as far as replacing card, upon doing so the card ‘verified’ and requested to take $0 transaction successfully (verifed & approved on banking app) however when attempting after this to pay the outstanding bill, it repeats the verify and pay button issue as above?
I’m getting zero updates from shopify support apart from saying billing team are aware & I should get updates but last update was over 26 hours ago & was not an update, just acknowledgment of the ticket.
First line support, or at least one person confirmed this is a shopify issue and the team are working on a fix, however other support chat team did not verify this…
Can anyone offer any help on this, I would be very grateful for any help… As it stands our website offline, customers are worried & we cannot access customers orders & information to process.
FYI, from our side we’ve tried to pay the bills at least 10 times over 3 different cards, all have the same issue as mentioned above.. We are looking for Shopify support to reinstate the website if this is something they have to fix, however I’m being told only billing team can approve this and they have not responded in 36 hours!
Please help, is it just me or is this an issue on other shopify sites? Thank yo for taking the time to help.
Since this is a billing issue, the best course of action is to keep an open communication with Shopify support team as they are the one that have better view of your account’s status. If after 72 hours and you did not receive any updates from them, make a follow-up and request for escalation if necessary and possible.
We’re having exactly the same problem. Shopify says it’s an issue on its side which they’ve escalated to the Billing team. They’ve assured me the shop won’t be frozen until end August but in the meantime we can’t pay/create shipping labels.
Hi Reedsc, Thanks for leaving a comment on this. Although I’m sorry to hear you are having this same issue, it does offer some reassurance when we know we’re not alone with the issue.
An interesting development from over the weekend is that we managed to get the store back online (unfrozen!) Due to a member of the billing team getting back to us (which took at least 36 hours to get sorted) but they were helpful & the store was reinstated. Shopify then were able to process a ‘new’ bill without verification or any issue on the first attempt.
We then thought the issue was resolved & tried to click the ‘verify and pay’ button for two older invoices that were still open & we still have the same issue! So we are trying to work out if this will only effect invoices/bills that are historic? Who knows…
I would like to add that we are using a mastercard that is from Tide bank in the UK and I think it’s classed as a pre-paid master debit card I think… Nos sure the issue is with the specific card type, however we’ve tried 3 or 4 other cards, all different types & still would not process the payments so that seems a long shot to blame the card type!
Again, any help form your experience would be welcome or if you could suggest the best route to contact someone at Shopify who can actually take direct action to unfreeze sites would be welcome as it took us 36 hours (with the website down) to get that part resolved.
Just to let you know I’m having the same issue. I’ve tried different cards and the circle just goes round and then nothing happens. Very frustrating. I do have an email saying they will attempt to take payment again on 10th so not sure if maybe a pending payment is blocking another one? I don’t know why the payment didn’t go through properly in the first place!
Hi, thanks for confirming you share the issue, although I’m sorry you’ve had problems like us as it’s not great.
We have exactly the same issue as you, tried multiple cards and still won’t take the payment.
As I mentioned above, what’s strange is that they were able to process a bill payment on 6th July and that payment did not require verification and from what I can see processed correctly on the first attempt, leaving 2 older bills that will not process?? Very strange.
Again, just wanting to help anyone with the issue & receive any help that can be offered! Thanks and best wishes.
Hi Billuk - interestingly we were also using a Tide card (UK) as the primary source with Paypal as back up. I’ve since tried different cards and different PayPal accounts but it hasn’t made a difference. I wonder whether setting it up initially with Tide has caused the issue.
We have done exactly the same as you, tried different/standard (high street bank) cards and also PayPal without success.
I think this is where the issue is, setting up initially with Tide perhaps caused this issue & when it’s attempting multiple times to charge the card without success it’s causing problems?? As you will know Tide doesnt send OTP for verification but verify from within the banking app and it NOT asking for verification when we are clicking the verify and pay button.
I would be surprised if this is not linked to the issue… We contacted Tide via their chat feature & they confirmed there were no pending payments of request for payments from Shopify, so from their side it’s not reaching that far!
Just posting a update here, basically the below message from a Shopify team member confirms they have made some changes to the billing process & this may be impacting some accounts or causing the current issue we are experiencing…
There has been some changes to our billing system, so I am curious if this is continued side effects, etc. I will see if I can find some information on this being a known issue, or contact our developers if needed.
Could be a Master Card issue perhaps? The Tide business bank card is a Mater Card, so it could well be something to do with that.. FYI, we are still having the same problem, not solved as yet!
We are having exactly the same issue. We are chasing the support team on a daily basis and still nothing! We are unable to process any shipping labels due to the issue and we have had to do this manually (Massive head ache). Shopify have not been very helpful at all and I fee like we all deserve some kind of compensation for this issue! Interestingly we are using a Tide account too. So this has to be linked in some way. Shopify do not seem to be treating this issue with the urgency it requires! We are very unhappy with the lack of resolution.
“Massive headache” is an understatement!! I’ve been in touch with Tide and no requests for validation/verification are coming through when the ‘verify & pay’ button is clicked.
Hi Guys, Yes it’s really a headache & to be honest causing real business issues for us.
Same here, been in contact with Tide and they have confirmed no transactions or request for payment are reaching them. One Shopify team member on chat agreed that the request is not reaching the bank at all.
Lots of messages back & forth with Shopify & to be honest, I have to agree they are not treating this as high importance. Nothing showing on Shopify Status even though they have admitted it is an error with their billing & they are aware of it. My guess is they have carried out an ‘update’ and it somehow has resulted in billing requests not processing… Not sure if it’s limited to Tide Master Cards as another user on here used a non-Tide Master Card but also experienced the same issue.
If anyone has a good channel/process to get Shopify to take action on this, please let me know as I’m going round in circles…
Shopify chat are still just referring me to my bank and saying its an approval issue with the bank. In which case this is never going to be sorted. I’m at a loss on what to do next.
Hi Vividvariations, I’m sorry you also have this issue. I’ve added some points below that I hope will help, it worked for us (for the time being) although Shopify have not confirmed they have found a ‘fix’ for the issue, more a case of just postponing billing until it’s sorted.
Various team members within SHopify via chat & email (via open case ticket) have confirmed its a Shopify billing issue & although I think it is an approval issue (3DS/Verification/etc) they all agree the transaction requests are not reaching the bank for it to request payment.
I copied & pasted this thread into the chat & also added it to the open ticket that was created for this issue to bring attention of this problem & shows many Shopify customers are having this issue. I think this helped and perhaps drew attention to the issue.
Shopify, due to the locations they work from seem to take at least 24 hours to ‘register’ the issue and for it to reach the billing team for review. This is a real pain however I can’t find any shortcuts to this.
My process was - go onto chat, explain issue, paste this tread, request billing team to deal with this issue (as billing team are the only guys who can un-freeze a store). When the ticket was created I went and added more details of the issue onto the ticket and asked for urgent help, I also pasted the thread on the ticket in the hope this reached the billing team directly.
After around 36 hours the above resulted in the store being un-frozen.
6.. Interesting thing is that when they un-froze the store it created a brand new bill & this cleared right away, without the need for verification etc?? It left an older bill on our billing list (this was the bill that caused the problem) and to date that bill remains unpaid & overdue on the billing page!!
I hope the above helps & if anyone has any further advice please let me know as I’m not convinced we are 100% safe from the site going onto freeze again due to that old bill still showing as due!
Like a few on this thread we have also confirmed with Tide that the issue is Shopify side and there is no request making it to the bank at all. We have got shopify to admit this too and they have ‘Escalated’ our ticket to the billing team. That was on Saturday. Its now Wednesday and we have had no contact from the billing team at all. We have chased every single day and it seems to be burred behind a wall of ‘We are working on it’! The issue still persists. We get alot of sales Via tiktok shop, so we have ramped down our website marketing and ramped up tiktok and we are now managing our fulfillment directly in TikTok! This issue is costing shopify money so its within their interests to get it fixed ASAP. We hit our $200 Billing limit every other day, so why on earth they can’t just remove this restriction as a temporary measure to get us all up and running is beyond me! We did actually request this and we were told that they had requested this with the billing team (Which seems non existent. So we have been forced to find our own work around and we are now using Tiktok shop shipping and Royal Mail. To be honest if they freeze the site, we will just move away from shopify completely.
Hi Billuk… when you say you added it to the ‘open ticket’ are you simply referring to a ticket which you raised or is this some sort of public ticket they’re working on?