Setting Up Email Notifications
Blimey can send you email alerts when your store goes down, comes back up, or when Shopify has platform-wide issues.
Notification types
There are two independent notification toggles:
- Uptime Notifications — Alerts when your store goes down or recovers
- Shopify Status Notifications — Alerts when Shopify has platform-wide issues
You can enable or disable each one independently from the Settings page.
Who receives notifications
You can configure who gets alert emails:
- Admin Email — Toggle to include your Shopify admin email address
- Additional Emails — Add extra email addresses (team members, developers, etc.)
At least one recipient must be configured for notifications to be sent.
Setting up notifications
- Go to Settings in the Blimey sidebar
- Toggle on Uptime Notifications and/or Shopify Status Notifications
- Enable the Admin Email toggle if you want alerts sent to your Shopify admin email
- Add any additional email addresses in the extra emails field
- Your preferences are saved automatically
Email content
Notification emails include:
- Downtime alerts — Which domain is down, when it was detected
- Recovery alerts — Confirmation your store is back online, how long it was down
- Shopify status alerts — Which Shopify component is affected and the current status