Affirm Outage History

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Affirm had 51 outages in the last 2 years totaling 58h 58m of downtime — averaging 2.1 incidents per month.

There were 51 Affirm outages since May 29, 2024 totaling 58h 58m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.affirm.com

Minor May 21, 2026

No-impact update to core services

Detected by Pingoru
May 21, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 30, 2026, 12:41 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 20, 2026, 08:35 PM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 13, 23:00 PDT - May 14, 03:00 PDT Apr 20, 13:30 PDT Update - This maintenance window has been pushed back to May 13th by request of the migration team. Mar 23, 15:47 PDT Scheduled - We are making updates to deployment infrastructure on some of our core services. This change involves the creation of new service instances and re-routing traffic to those instances. These changes will occur over the course of 2 hours, beginning at 11pm PT on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026. No downtime or impact to availability is expected from these changes.

  2. monitoring May 14, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 13, 23:00 PDT - May 14, 03:00 PDT Apr 20, 13:30 PDT Update - This maintenance window has been pushed back to May 13th by request of the migration team. Mar 23, 15:47 PDT Scheduled - We are making updates to deployment infrastructure on some of our core services. This change involves the creation of new service instances and re-routing traffic to those instances. These changes will occur over the course of 2 hours, beginning at 11pm PT on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026. No downtime or impact to availability is expected from these changes.

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Minor May 7, 2026

Upgrades in Critical Checkout Databases in US and CA

Detected by Pingoru
May 07, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 30, 2026, 12:41 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 24, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6, 23:00 PDT - May 7, 03:00 PDT Apr 24, 16:39 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 11 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the US and CA region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 4 hours with an expected downtime of up to 5 minutes. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.

  2. monitoring May 07, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6 , 23:00 PDT - May 7 , 03:00 PDT Apr 24 , 16:39 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 11 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the US and CA region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 4 hours with an expected downtime of up to 5 minutes. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.

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Minor May 6, 2026

Upgrades in Critical Checkout Databases in the UK

Detected by Pingoru
May 06, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Apr 30, 2026, 12:41 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 24, 2026, 11:46 PM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6, 16:00 - 19:00 PDT Apr 24, 16:46 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 4 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the UK region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 3 hours with an expected downtime of up to 1 minute. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.

  2. monitoring May 06, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT May 6 , 16:00 - 19:00 PDT Apr 24 , 16:46 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 4 PM PT on May 6, 2026. This work involves several production database clusters that support Checkout in the UK region to ensure adequate capacity and performance. The total maintenance window is expected to last 3 hours with an expected downtime of up to 1 minute. Actual user impact is expected to be minimal, as failovers typically complete in under one minute and application retries will mitigate transient errors.

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Minor April 30, 2026

US Database Maintenance

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 30, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 30, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Apr 24, 2026, 07:24 PM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Apr 29, 14:00 - 17:00 PDT Apr 24, 12:24 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 2 PM PT on April 29, 2026. No downtime expected.

  2. monitoring Apr 29, 2026, 09:00 PM UTC

    THIS IS A SCHEDULED EVENT Apr 29 , 14:00 - 17:00 PDT Apr 24 , 12:24 PDT Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled database maintenance beginning 2 PM PT on April 29, 2026. No downtime expected.

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Minor March 24, 2026

Network Maintenance in US/CA and UK

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Mar 24, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

    Mar 24, 05:00 PDT Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Mar 24, 04:00 PDT In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Mar 20, 15:53 PDT Scheduled - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.

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Minor March 5, 2026

No-impact update to core service configurations

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 05, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 05, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Mar 05, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC

    Mar 5, 01:00 PST Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Mar 4, 23:00 PST In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Mar 2, 13:48 PST Scheduled - We are making updates to deployment infrastructure on some of our core services. This change involves the creation of new service instances and re-routing traffic to those instances. These changes will occur over the course of 2 hours, beginning at 11pm PT on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2026. No downtime or impact to availability is expected from these changes.

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Minor February 12, 2026

Degradation in Affirm UK Checkout

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 12, 2026, 07:43 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 12, 2026, 07:43 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Feb 12, 2026, 07:43 PM UTC

    Feb 12, 11:43 PST Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Feb 12, 11:18 PST Monitoring - We have identified the root cause of the incident and will continue monitoring our services to ensure that our services maintain operational. Feb 12, 10:20 PST Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue

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Minor January 29, 2026

Delay in Shopify Order Status Updates

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 29, 2026, 06:16 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 29, 2026, 06:16 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jan 29, 2026, 06:16 PM UTC

    Jan 29, 10:16 PST Resolved - The issue affecting Shopify order status updates has been resolved. All delayed events have been processed, and order statuses are now appearing correctly in the Shopify dashboard. We appreciate your patience. Jan 29, 09:35 PST Investigating - We are currently investigating an issue affecting order status updates for merchants using the Shopify Payments App. While customers can still complete the Affirm checkout flow, there is a delay in orders being marked as 'Authorized' or 'Confirmed' within the Shopify dashboard. Our engineering team is working to restore event processing.

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Minor January 22, 2026

Affirm US Checkout Availability Degradation

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 22, 2026, 04:32 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 22, 2026, 04:32 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jan 22, 2026, 04:32 PM UTC

    Jan 22, 08:32 PST Resolved - Our services have maintained operational. This incident is now resolved. Jan 22, 08:22 PST Monitoring - We have identified the root cause of the incident and will continue monitoring our services to ensure that our services maintain operational. Jan 22, 07:52 PST Update - We have seen a recovery in our services but we are still monitoring and investigating the root cause of the issue. We will provide an update as soon as possible. Jan 22, 07:40 PST Investigating - We are currently experiencing a drop in checkout availability. We are working on identifying the root cause to return service as soon as possible. We will update as soon as we can.

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Minor January 22, 2026

Network Maintenance in CA affecting Paybright API's only

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 22, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 22, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jan 22, 2026, 09:00 AM UTC

    Jan 22, 01:00 PST Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Jan 21, 23:00 PST In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Jan 7, 09:07 PST Scheduled - We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.

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Minor January 15, 2026

Authentication Disruption in the US

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 15, 2026, 03:46 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 15, 2026, 03:46 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jan 15, 2026, 03:46 AM UTC

    Jan 14, 19:46 PST Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jan 14, 15:08 PST Update - We are continuing to monitor the situation to ensure performance remains stable. Jan 14, 10:42 PST Update - We are continuing to monitor the situation to ensure performance remains stable. Jan 14, 10:10 PST Monitoring - We will continue to monitor the situation to ensure performance remains stable. Jan 14, 09:48 PST Identified - We are observing authentication issues for some consumers related to ongoing nation-wide carrier disruptions.

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Minor January 7, 2026

Degradation in Affirm Checkout

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 07, 2026, 07:51 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 07, 2026, 07:51 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Jan 07, 2026, 07:51 AM UTC

    Jan 6, 23:51 PST Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Jan 6, 23:49 PST Monitoring - We've deployed a mitigation, throughput is recovering and are actively monitoring. Jan 6, 23:45 PST Identified - We've identified the source of the degradation in Affirm Checkout and we are working on a mitigation

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Minor December 11, 2025

Affirm Maintenance for US, CA

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 11, 2025, 08:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 11, 2025, 08:00 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Dec 11, 2025, 08:00 AM UTC

    Dec 11, 00:00 PST Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Dec 10, 23:00 PST In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Dec 10, 10:21 PST Update - We will be having a scheduled maintenance for Affirm US, and Canada Dec 9, 13:59 PST Scheduled - Third party vendor network maintenance, no downtime expected.

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Minor December 11, 2025

Affirm Maintenance for UK

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 11, 2025, 03:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 11, 2025, 03:00 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Dec 11, 2025, 03:00 AM UTC

    Dec 10, 19:00 PST Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Dec 10, 18:00 PST In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Dec 10, 10:23 PST Scheduled - Third party vendor network maintenance, no downtime expected.

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Minor December 5, 2025

Degradation in Affirm Checkout Service

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 05, 2025, 09:54 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 05, 2025, 09:54 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Dec 05, 2025, 09:54 AM UTC

    Dec 5, 01:54 PST Resolved - This incident has been resolved and we are fully recovered. Dec 5, 01:15 PST Monitoring - We are seeing recovery, but will continue to monitor. Dec 5, 01:04 PST Identified - We are currently experiencing a degradation in all Affirm API's for users. Our engineering team is working to identify the root cause and implement a solution as soon as possible.

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Minor December 4, 2025

Increase in Latency Across Affirm APIs

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 04, 2025, 05:20 AM UTC
Resolved
Dec 04, 2025, 05:20 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Dec 04, 2025, 05:20 AM UTC

    Dec 3, 21:20 PST Resolved - This incident has been resolved. Dec 3, 19:05 PST Monitoring - We have not seen a recurrence since approximately 18:20 pm PT and are continuing to monitor our dashboards. Dec 3, 18:36 PST Identified - We have identified the root cause of the service disruption and are actively working on a mitigation. Dec 3, 18:19 PST Investigating - We are investigating increased API error rates in the US-EAST-1 Region.

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Minor November 20, 2025

Network Maintenance

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 20, 2025, 08:00 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 20, 2025, 08:00 AM UTC
Duration
Affected: Affirm Status service
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Nov 20, 2025, 08:00 AM UTC

    Nov 20, 00:00 PST Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed. Nov 19, 23:00 PST In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary. Nov 12, 14:25 PST Update - Network failover preparation for peak season pushed to the week after Nov 7, 11:56 PST Update - Network failover preparation for peak season Oct 29, 12:49 PDT Scheduled - Network failover preparation for peak season

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Minor November 18, 2025

latency

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 18, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 18, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Nov 18, 2025, 05:30 PM UTC

    Nov 18, 09:30 PST Resolved - The latency was related to a disruption on a core infrastructure provider. We are observing full recovery. Nov 18, 09:11 PST Investigating - We have detected intermittent API latency and are actively investigating.

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Minor November 18, 2025

Impact to all traffic

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 18, 2025, 03:28 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 18, 2025, 03:28 PM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Nov 18, 2025, 03:28 PM UTC

    Nov 18, 07:28 PST Resolved - This issue has been resolved and full service has been restored Nov 18, 06:48 PST Monitoring - Service is being restored and we expect full resolution shortly. Nov 18, 06:08 PST Identified - Our teams have confirmed that the degradation is a result of a widespread issue impacting a core infrastructure provider. We are monitoring the situation closely and will update in the next 30 minutes. Nov 18, 06:07 PST Investigating - We are investigating a sudden drop in all successful traffic to Affirm services in the US, CA and UK

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Minor November 10, 2025

Increased Latency in US

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 10, 2025, 05:27 PM UTC
Resolved
Nov 10, 2025, 05:27 PM UTC
Duration
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Nov 10, 2025, 05:27 PM UTC

    Nov 10, 09:27 PST Resolved - Our services have maintained operational so this incident is now resolved. Nov 10, 09:23 PST Monitoring - Our teams have mitigated the impact to latency and availability has returned to normal. We will continue monitoring to ensure our services maintain operational. Nov 10, 09:11 PST Investigating - We are investigating an increase in latency in our checkout flow. We will provide additional updates as soon as possible.

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Minor October 15, 2025

Merchant Portal Sign-in Degradation

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 15, 2025, 02:08 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 15, 2025, 06:37 PM UTC
Duration
4h 29m
Affected: USCanada
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Oct 15, 2025, 02:08 PM UTC

    We are currently experiencing elevated level of errors that are affecting the Merchant Portal Dashboard, and we are investigating the issue. We will provide additional updates as we know more.

  2. investigating Oct 15, 2025, 02:08 PM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. investigating Oct 15, 2025, 02:29 PM UTC

    Merchants attempting to hit the following URLs are receiving an error due to an issue with the trailing slash: - https://www.affirm.com/dashboard/signin/ - https://www.affirm.ca/dashboard/signin/ While our team works on mitigating this issue, in order to hit the dashboard sign-in page, hit the following Sign-in URLs: - https://www.affirm.com/dashboard/signin - https://www.affirm.ca/dashboard/signin

  4. resolved Oct 15, 2025, 06:37 PM UTC

    Our team has deployed a fix and have seen the errors subside. All services are now functioning as expected and both URL's are working: - https://www.affirm.com/dashboard/signin/ - https://www.affirm.ca/dashboard/signin/

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