BetterNow Outage History

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BetterNow had 11 outages in the last 2 years totaling 43h 47m of downtime — averaging 0.5 incidents per month.

There were 11 BetterNow outages since October 28, 2024 totaling 43h 47m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.betternow.org

Major August 13, 2026

retroactive: API authorization errors

Detected by Pingoru
Aug 13, 2026, 07:01 AM UTC
Resolved
Aug 13, 2026, 07:01 AM UTC
Duration
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Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Aug 13, 2026, 07:01 AM UTC

    A new version of the service added stricter validation of API credentials, which improperly refused access with the 401 HTTP response code. We saw an increase in 401 responses from 2026-08-12 17:43 CEST until the validation was reverted at 2026-08-13 08:41 CEST

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Minor January 19, 2026

VIpps/MobilePay errors

Detected by Pingoru
Jan 19, 2026, 10:45 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 19, 2026, 05:32 PM UTC
Duration
6h 46m
Affected: Donation Payment Processing
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jan 19, 2026, 10:45 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Jan 19, 2026, 10:54 AM UTC

    https://vipps.statuspage.io/incidents/0qmhyt9df92b according to Vipps a fix has been put into place. We are also seeing the error rate normalize.

  3. resolved Jan 19, 2026, 05:32 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major December 17, 2025

Elevated Errors

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 17, 2025, 06:18 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 17, 2025, 06:54 PM UTC
Duration
36m
Affected: BetterNow Platformapi.betternow.org
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Dec 17, 2025, 06:18 PM UTC

    We're experiencing an elevated level errors and are currently looking into the issue.

  2. monitoring Dec 17, 2025, 06:27 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Dec 17, 2025, 06:54 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major December 16, 2025

Increased Error Rate

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 16, 2025, 06:14 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 16, 2025, 06:56 PM UTC
Duration
42m
Affected: BetterNow Platformapi.betternow.org
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Dec 16, 2025, 06:14 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. monitoring Dec 16, 2025, 06:23 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Dec 16, 2025, 06:56 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor October 22, 2025

Swish errors

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 22, 2025, 08:43 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 22, 2025, 01:12 PM UTC
Duration
4h 29m
Affected: Donation Payment Processing
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. identified Oct 22, 2025, 08:43 AM UTC

    Some Swish payments are failing due to an issue with our upstream vendor. More information can be found at https://status.quickpay.net/cmh1pki2m04p95kv5jg6tkw0a

  2. resolved Oct 22, 2025, 01:12 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice September 30, 2025

Swish payment issues

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 30, 2025, 01:11 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 30, 2025, 02:41 PM UTC
Duration
1h 29m
Affected: Donation Payment Processing
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Sep 30, 2025, 01:11 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Sep 30, 2025, 01:23 PM UTC

    We have identified an issue at our upstream payment provider and have contacted them so that they can correct the issue. We have temporarily disabled Swish payments until the issue is resolved. Card, MobilePay, Vipps, and bank transfer payments are unaffected.

  3. identified Sep 30, 2025, 02:01 PM UTC

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  4. monitoring Sep 30, 2025, 02:04 PM UTC

    Our upstream payment provider has corrected the issue. The error was live between 10:20 and 15:18. Swish payments have now been enabled again. Our upstream payment provider will contact affected merchants with details about the issue.

  5. resolved Sep 30, 2025, 02:41 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major June 10, 2025

Increased error rate

Detected by Pingoru
Jun 10, 2025, 04:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Jun 11, 2025, 05:43 AM UTC
Duration
13h 20m
Affected: BetterNow Platformapi.betternow.org
Timeline · 6 updates
  1. investigating Jun 10, 2025, 02:49 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Jun 10, 2025, 03:45 PM UTC

    Our services are down due to a Heroku/Salesforce incident. https://status.salesforce.com/generalmessages/10001540 has more information on the outage.

  3. monitoring Jun 10, 2025, 04:23 PM UTC

    We are seeing service recovery, however the Heroku/Salesforce incident is not resolved. We continue to monitor the system.

  4. monitoring Jun 10, 2025, 04:52 PM UTC

    Heroku/Salesforce has updated their incident with the following: "Investigations are still ongoing. A permanent fix is in progress, and it will require disabling the configuration change that reintroduces impact." We take this to mean there is a possibility of more downtime before the incident is fully resolved. We will continue to monitor the system.

  5. monitoring Jun 10, 2025, 08:36 PM UTC

    Heroku/Salesforce continue to work towards resolving the incident. The latest information can be found at https://status.salesforce.com/generalmessages/10001540 We will leave this incident open until the issue is fully resolved on their side. Our services have been operational since 16:21 UTC.

  6. resolved Jun 11, 2025, 05:43 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice March 31, 2025

Errors in fundraisers API endpoint

Detected by Pingoru
Mar 31, 2025, 01:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 31, 2025, 03:30 PM UTC
Duration
2h 30m
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Mar 31, 2025, 01:33 PM UTC

    An error in a deploy caused an increased error rate for API requests to the fundraisers endpoint. The deploy has been rolled back as of 15:22 CEST

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Minor December 30, 2024

Increase error rate

Detected by Pingoru
Dec 30, 2024, 04:46 PM UTC
Resolved
Dec 30, 2024, 05:30 PM UTC
Duration
43m
Affected: BetterNow Platformapi.betternow.org
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Dec 30, 2024, 04:46 PM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. identified Dec 30, 2024, 04:54 PM UTC

    Autoscaling has caught up to the increased traffic and it looks like services are recovering

  3. monitoring Dec 30, 2024, 04:59 PM UTC

    Services are recovered, we continue to monitor traffic levels and error levels

  4. resolved Dec 30, 2024, 05:30 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor November 8, 2024

Errors with Swish payments

Detected by Pingoru
Nov 08, 2024, 08:06 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 08, 2024, 09:45 AM UTC
Duration
1h 39m
Affected: Donation Payment Processing
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Nov 08, 2024, 08:06 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  2. investigating Nov 08, 2024, 08:06 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  3. investigating Nov 08, 2024, 08:08 AM UTC

    We see an elevated error rate for Swish payments for many merchants. More information can be found on the Swish status page at https://status.swish.nu/incidents/1fwn9ny2lsh3

  4. resolved Nov 08, 2024, 09:45 AM UTC

    Swish has resolved their incident. We continue to monitor the error rate for Swish payments. https://status.swish.nu/incidents/1fwn9ny2lsh3

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Major October 28, 2024

Downtime from 19:53-20:42 CET, October 28th

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 28, 2024, 07:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 29, 2024, 06:30 AM UTC
Duration
11h 30m
Timeline · 1 update
  1. resolved Oct 29, 2024, 05:29 AM UTC

    Our monitoring shows a period of downtime between 19:53 and 20:42 CET yesterday, October 28th. This was due to an issue with our upstream provider, the details are here: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2721

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