Why are my payouts getting blocked?

Topic summary

Blocked Shopify Payments payouts and missing support emails. Merchants report their payouts (funds disbursed to their bank) are blocked, with one told resolution may take about a week.

  • Fees have already been deducted from the blocked funds, raising concern about access to earnings. Two users note this situation.
  • Customer support claims outreach was made via email, but the merchants say they have not received any emails. A second merchant confirms the same experience of being told an email was sent but not seeing it.

Key points:

  • Cause of the payout block is not communicated in the thread.
  • Communication gap: expected email notifications are not arriving.
  • No guidance or next steps from support are captured beyond the one-week timeline.

Status: Unresolved and ongoing; merchants seek clarification and a reliable contact or update from support.

Summarized with AI on December 10. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi my payouts are blocked and they said it would take a week to resolve, they have already deducted their fee from it. I reached out to customer support, and they said someone contacted me but I haven’t received any email or anything from them. Can anyone pls help me what to do ?

Seems like they are telling evryone this. I havent received an email either but they said one was sent out.