Shopify ‘down’ – thousands of shoppers say website not working in mystery outage
POPULAR shopping platform Shopify appears to have suffered a major outage on Monday.
Thousands of reports regarding Shopify being down flooded Downdetector at around 11 am EST.
A staggering 64 percent of reports complained of issues surrounding the website.
Another 27 percent of reports flagged problems with Shopify’s server connection.
The remaining nine percent of reports noted problems with logging in.
Some users in Downdetector’s comments said they were having trouble with photos loading.
Others pointed out that the shopping platform’s status page wouldn’t load.
“Images not loading both on website and in dynamic product feeds in emails that pull from Shopify integration,” one user said in the comments section.
“Everything is down! My whole website, my admin, apps, nothing is working! WTF! Monday morning. Get this fixed!” a second frustrated user added.
“All 4 of my stores are down, admin, everything,” a third person remarked.
Other users noted on Downdectector that their storefronts were working but with “major issues,” including slow checkout.
The outage is uncommon for the shopping platform, which has reported zero incidents in at least two months.
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