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Yahoo! Small Business System Status


On this page you can review known system issues that may impact your Small Business account. Please check back regularly for the latest status, or choose a real-time updates option for automated notification of any changes. If you are experiencing a problem not listed below, please contact us.

Archive for July, 2010

Notice to Merchant Solutions customers experiencing difficulty accessing their Store Control Panel

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Some merchants may not be able to access their Store Control Panel.

Our engineers are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Searching Yahoo! Small Business Help Pages do not display results

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Searching for any keyword or phrase on Yahoo! Small Business Help Pages fails to display results.

As a workaround, customers may find the relevant help page by navigating through the category links located at the main Yahoo! Small Business Help Page.

Our engineers are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Notice to Merchant Solutions customers experiencing difficulty adding items to cart

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

If you are still experiencing issues with adding items to your cart (due to double-quotes), please do the following:

  • Click on your Store Editor
  • Click on Variables
  • Click on Update
  • Publish your Editor

This should resolve the difficulty with adding items to your cart.

Order Manager may be temporarily unavailable

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Yahoo! Small Business Merchant Solutions customers may experience difficulties accessing their Order Manager.

Impacted customers may receive a store maintenance message.

If you have received the maintenance message, pleased attempt to access your Order Manager again in five to ten minutes.

We are aware of this issue and apologize for any inconvenience this may have created.

UPS Shipping labels may not generate properly

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Yahoo! Small Business Merchant Solutions customers may experience difficulties generating UPS shipping labels.

Customers may receive the following error:

“ERROR:  The XML document is not well formed”

We are aware of this issue and are working with UPS to resolve this as quickly as possible.

Web Hosting maintenance on Thursday, July 29

Monday, July 26th, 2010

On Thursday, July 29, 2010, beginning at approximately 9 p.m. PT, Yahoo! will be conducting system maintenance to improve the speed and reliability of our Web Hosting platform. We expect this maintenance to last approximately 3 hours. During this time, Web Hosting services — including MySQL databases — will be read-only.

Your web site and store will remain available to your customers, but features that rely on a database may be temporarily disabled. Please note that this maintenance does not affect Merchant Solutions control panels and features.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Yahoo! Small Business customers using Comcast may have difficulties accessing Yahoo! properties

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Small Business customers using Comcast as an Internet Service Provider may have difficulties accessing any Yahoo! web site, including but not limited to Yahoo! Small Business services.

Comcast customers will receive a “page not found” or a 404 “page can not be displayed” error when attempting to view Yahoo! hosted sites.

We are aware of this issue and we are working with Comcast to resolve this as quickly as possible.

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers may have difficulties accessing their Yahoo! Small Business Email (POP & Webmail)

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Some Yahoo! Small Business customers may have difficulties accessing their Yahoo! Small Business Email (POP & Webmail). We are aware of this issue and we are working to resolve this in a timely manner.

Some Yahoo! Small Business accounts may show pending status.

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Certain new Yahoo! Web Hosting, Domains, or Business Email orders placed between July 10th, 2010 to July 16th, 2010  may still show pending status in the control panel.

We are aware of this issue and are working toward a resolution as quickly as possible.  Further updates will be provided as more information becomes available

Yahoo! Small Business customers may have difficulties accessing their Yahoo! Business Control Panel and/or the Yahoo! Small Business web site

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Yahoo! Small Business customers attempting to access their Small Business Control Panel or the Yahoo! Small Business web site may experience one or more of the following conditions:

  • Web pages loading slowly
  • Web pages receiving a time out error
  • Web pages returning a 404 error

We are aware of this issue and we are working to resolve this in a timely manner.

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