Assembly Payments incident
Potential Issue with AMEX Authorisations
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Mar 12, 2026, 03:41 AM UTC
We are currently investigating a potential issue affecting an upstream provider's processing of American Express payment authorisations.
- monitoring Mar 12, 2026, 04:54 AM UTC
The issue has been resolved and service has been restored. Our teams are continuing to monitor closely to ensure ongoing stability. During the incident, American Express payment authorizations were impacted. Customers attempting to process payments with American Express cards may have experienced failed payment attempts. We recommend retrying any failed transactions. Our team is reviewing the status of affected payments, and if we identify cases requiring further action, we will contact the relevant customers directly. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we worked to restore service.
- resolved Mar 12, 2026, 07:42 AM UTC
The latest instance of this error was detected at ~3:05pm AEDT. Our ongoing monitoring confirms no further impact from this earlier upstream interruption to American Express transactions.
Looking to track Assembly Payments downtime and outages?
Pingoru polls Assembly Payments's status page every 5 minutes and alerts you the moment it reports an issue — before your customers do.
- Real-time alerts when Assembly Payments reports an incident
- Email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and webhook notifications
- Track Assembly Payments alongside 5,000+ providers in one dashboard
- Component-level filtering
- Notification groups + maintenance calendar
5 free monitors · No credit card required