Shopify experienced a service disruption lasting 11.5 hours where merchants encountered 500 errors when accessing the Admin panel, processing checkouts, and loading storefronts. The issue was caused by an infrastructure provider disruption in the US central region. Service was restored after the infrastructure provider resolved the underlying problem and Shopify teams completed recovery operations.
Between 10:50 and 12:40 UTC on March 9, 2026, we experienced errors affecting the Shopify admin functionality, checkouts, and storefronts due to a disruption with our infrastructure provider in the US central region. We restored service at 12:40 UTC after our infrastructure provider resolved the underlying disruption and our teams completed recovery operations. The monitoring period for this issue has ended, and we've observed no further impact.
We are still monitoring the issue with Shopify Admin, Checkouts, and Storefronts showing 500 errors. We will provide an update in 4 hours, or sooner if more information becomes available.
Errors subsided at 15:22 UTC. We are continuing to monitor the situation to ensure they do not reoccur.
We are seeing some recovery for this issue and are continuing to monitor.
We are seeing recovery for this issue and are continuing to monitor.
We are currently investigating and will keep you updated.
Users may experience issues when trying to access the Shopify Admin, Checkouts, and Storefronts. These may appear as 500 errors.
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