Rebuy incident

Checkout Extensions Not Rendering

Resolved after 19 hours 5 minutes, on February 24, 2026.

resolved Mar 04, 2026, 06:49 PM UTC

Description On February 24th at 3:11 PM EST, a code change was deployed as part of a security improvement. The following morning at 8:35 AM EST, merchants began experiencing Shopify Checkout Extensions not rendering. Core checkout functionality remained operational and no data was lost or corrupted. Root Cause: The deployed change introduced a data shape update that was not reflected in the Checkout Extension schema, causing validation to fail during extension initialization and preventing extensions from rendering. Resolution: Our engineering team identified the mismatch and deployed a fix at 10:05 AM EST on February 25th, restoring full Checkout Extension functionality. Next Steps: Review and improve existing monitoring coverage for extension initialization failures to ensure alerts fire as expected. Additionally, introduce cross-functional review requirements for changes that touch shared data contracts to catch downstream impacts before deployment.

Started
Feb 24, 2026, 08:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 25, 2026, 03:05 PM UTC
Duration
19h 5m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 24, 2026, 08:00 PM UTC

Update timeline

  1. resolved Mar 04, 2026, 06:49 PM UTC

    Description On February 24th at 3:11 PM EST, a code change was deployed as part of a security improvement. The following morning at 8:35 AM EST, merchants began experiencing Shopify Checkout Extensions not rendering. Core checkout functionality remained operational and no data was lost or corrupted. Root Cause: The deployed change introduced a data shape update that was not reflected in the Checkout Extension schema, causing validation to fail during extension initialization and preventing extensions from rendering. Resolution: Our engineering team identified the mismatch and deployed a fix at 10:05 AM EST on February 25th, restoring full Checkout Extension functionality. Next Steps: Review and improve existing monitoring coverage for extension initialization failures to ensure alerts fire as expected. Additionally, introduce cross-functional review requirements for changes that touch shared data contracts to catch downstream impacts before deployment.

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