01 - Lost Shopify Payments
Hook
I lost Shopify Payments for 16 months
Premise
Open with the 31-May-2025 post: 'Sixteen months ago, I lost Shopify Payments, and now they are back 🥳'. This frames the entire arc of the channel — survived without the main rail, came back hotter.
Proof points
- 16 months with Shopify Payments disabled
- Built the business anyway
- Payments returned May 2025 — and by Dec 2025 he did his first €1M month
- April 2026: payout problems appearing again — cycle theme
Takeaway
If your payment rail dies, you don't die. Build operational redundancy.
Related
[[../../archive/initial-themes-2026-04/04 - US Expansion & Operations]] · [[../../archive/tg-public-source-order/2025-05|2025-05 source]]
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