What we learn from running checkout checks on Shopify stores every day.
Shopify has announced a new round of app security changes and a security hub for developers. Most of it is good. None of it is due before January 2027, and none of it touches the app code already running on your store this BFCM.
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Shopify now asks shoppers to confirm before a store sends them to another website. It blunts the checkout hijack, merchants and developers are pushing back, and the apps that caused it are still on stores.
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Privy, Rebuy, Boost, Consentmo and Swym are among the apps that have left the Shopify App Store since the checkout hijack. Most aren't linked to it. Here is what is known, and what delisting does and doesn't do.
Read nowShoppers click checkout on a real Shopify store and land on a fake payment page. What happened, and how to check your own store in five minutes.
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Shopify's status page shows incidents while they are open, then they disappear from its history. We recorded every one since June. Here is the log, and why it matters for merchants.
Read nowEvery app on your storefront runs code its vendor can change at any time. Our app monitor data shows how often that happens, and why nothing in Shopify is watching.
Read nowYour Shopify apps update automatically, without your approval, and a single bad update is the most common cause of a checkout that breaks between deploys. Here is how app monitoring fingerprints every storefront app, detects the moment one changes, and ties that change to the failure it caused.
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On June 24, 2026, Shopify suffered a global outage affecting admin, storefront, checkout, Oxygen, and POS simultaneously. StatusGator detected it 24 minutes before Shopify acknowledged it. This was the 142nd tracked Shopify incident since January 2025.
Read nowShopify went down globally on June 3, 2026 — admin, storefronts, checkout, and POS all hit. StatusGator flagged it 22 minutes before Shopify did, and it was the 140th Shopify outage tracked since January 2025. Here is what happened and how to stop platform outages from quietly draining your revenue.
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When your agency manages a dozen Shopify stores, checkout monitoring becomes a game of whack-a-mole. Here is how we fixed that.
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Checkout failures rarely announce themselves. For agencies managing multiple Shopify stores, the gap between failure and detection is where revenue disappears.
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Pre-launch QA tests what you built. Post-deployment monitoring tests what your customers actually experience. They are not the same thing.
Read nowApp conflicts are the leading cause of silent checkout failures on Shopify. Understanding why they happen and how to detect them is essential for stores running multiple apps.
Read nowTheme updates change selectors. Revenue Shield distinguishes cosmetic changes from real failures automatically, so you only hear about problems that matter.
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Checkout failures are measured in hours and revenue. This article provides a framework for calculating the actual cost of detection delay for your store or portfolio.
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