Avoiding Holds & Bans

Slow motion is better than no motion. As long as you’re moving forward, you’re moving forward. That shit compounds. It’s way better to grow in a way you can actually maintain than to go balls to the wall and fuck shit up.

I’ve blitzscaled before. It’s fun, it’s fast, but it brings a ton of problems.

This is how to avoid getting wrecked by holds and bans.

📊 Accounting & Forecasting

• Have a bookkeeper in place — or do it yourself.
• Forecast stock properly → lead times, reorders, etc.
• Easiest fix = hire a nerd on Upwork who knows supply chain + bookkeeping.
• Communicate tightly with your supplier → they should be updating you on when to reorder based on sales.

👉 If you scale without this and get hit with a Shopify hold, you’ll be pissed.

🛡️ Chargebacks & Payments

• Disputifier → non-negotiable.
• Keep chargeback rate under 0.3%.
• At 1%, Shopify flags you and bans your ass.
• Always have 1 backup high-risk processor ready.
• Don’t hoard them (monthly fees add up).
• One ready-to-go is enough.
• Once you’re scaling: move to private processing or headless checkout (Discord plug).
• Off-Shopify checkout.
• Link multiple processors.
• Subscription + MRR built in.
• PCI compliance handled.

Refund angry customers or toss them a gift card. Don’t let disputes build up.

💳 Shopify Payments

• New stores → 5-day holds.
• After 2–3 weeks → drops to 2-day.
• If you’ve got an older store with better payout → use it.

And again: don’t touch PayPal unless it’s wallet-linked.

📈 Ad Account Infrastructure

• Get a US LLC verified BM.
• Link it to Meta Pro Ad Accounts.
• Use a verified profile, warmed up slowly.
• Warm the profile for 1–2 days.
• Warm the BM before spending.
• Billing, biz info → all correct before launch.
• Launch an engagement campaign ($5/day) to build history.

👉 Don’t do dumb risky shit in new accounts. Build history first.

• Always have backups → BMs, pixels, pages.
• Once scaling → hook up Supremium.
• 3% of ad spend (good when small).
• Flat €5K/month retainer (good when big).
• They unban ads and accounts way faster than anything else.

🛒 Shopify Backup Stores

When scaling, backups aren’t optional:

• Set up a duplicate Shopify store under:
• Different proxy
• Different domain (similar to your main)
• Same template + apps pre-installed

If your main store gets banned or payouts frozen:

• Swap ads to new URL.
• Install pixel + FB/IG sales channel app.
• You’re live again in minutes.

🔍 Multi-Channel Backups

• Build backup Google accounts too.
• If Shopify or FB goes down, you can still pivot quickly.

🚩 Red Flags to Watch

• Chargeback rate creeping up → drop everything and fix it.
• Shipping delays → get on your supplier’s ass immediately.
• Ads rejected too often → slow down upload frequency.

If you ignore these, you’ll wake up to “Funds on hold” emails.

🤝 Customer Experience

This is the part most people ignore. Don’t.

• Support team should de-escalate pissed customers fast.
• Refunds > disputes.
• Product quality should be improving over time.
• Reviews matter. Trustpilot matters. Comments matter.