BigCommerce incident

Issues with Technical Support Chat Queues

Major Resolved View vendor source →

BigCommerce experienced a major incident on January 12, 2026 affecting Support Center, lasting 13h 26m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 12, 2026, 09:50 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 12, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC
Duration
13h 26m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 12, 2026, 09:50 AM UTC

Affected components

Support Center

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 12, 2026, 09:50 AM UTC

    Our chat system is currently experiencing technical issues preventing agents from answering chats. We are working with our chat provider, but in the interim please note our live phone and web case queues are available.

  2. monitoring Jan 12, 2026, 09:26 PM UTC

    Our chat system is operational and our support agents are available to receive chats. We are monitoring at this time.

  3. resolved Jan 12, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

    This has been resolved.