BetterNow Outage History

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BetterNow had 13 outages in the last 2 years totaling 64h 4m of downtime — averaging 0.5 incidents per month.

There were 13 BetterNow outages since July 5, 2024 totaling 64h 4m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.betternow.org

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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Minor October 9, 2024

Increased response times

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 09, 2024, 01:21 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 09, 2024, 06:35 PM UTC
Duration
5h 13m
Affected: BetterNow Platformapi.betternow.org
Timeline · 5 updates
  1. investigating Oct 09, 2024, 01:21 PM UTC

    We're seeing longer response times than normal from some regions.

  2. investigating Oct 09, 2024, 01:33 PM UTC

    For now it seems our monitoring from North America and South America are seeing the worst response times, while Europe and Asia-Pacific are only slightly elevated.

  3. identified Oct 09, 2024, 01:58 PM UTC

    This looks to be a repeat of yesterday's incident: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2685

  4. monitoring Oct 09, 2024, 04:44 PM UTC

    We are seeing response times improve in all regions.

  5. resolved Oct 09, 2024, 06:35 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Major September 12, 2024

Clearhaus payment issues

Detected by Pingoru
Sep 12, 2024, 05:12 AM UTC
Resolved
Sep 12, 2024, 05:49 PM UTC
Duration
12h 37m
Affected: Donation Payment Processing
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. identified Sep 12, 2024, 05:12 AM UTC

    Clearhaus is reporting issues with an upstream provider https://status.clearhaus.com/incidents/hp85pwr0m3yp

  2. identified Sep 12, 2024, 05:13 AM UTC

    From Clearhaus: "Our upstream provider has confirmed and is aware of a connectivity issue. Currently almost all authorizations, voids and Mastercard credits are impacted"

  3. monitoring Sep 12, 2024, 12:18 PM UTC

    An update from Clearhaus: "We have seen a significant increase in approval rates and the connectivity is now back to normal. Due to the severity of this issue and the previous sudden change in approval rate we are still actively monitoring this situation." We will continue to monitor this as well.

  4. resolved Sep 12, 2024, 05:49 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor July 5, 2024

Increased error rate for Swish payments

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 05, 2024, 07:10 AM UTC
Resolved
Jul 05, 2024, 09:36 AM UTC
Duration
2h 25m
Affected: Donation Payment Processing
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Jul 05, 2024, 07:10 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating this issue.

  2. investigating Jul 05, 2024, 07:11 AM UTC

    Swish has an incident open for this at https://status.swish.nu/incidents/6xqpkqcsy8bb

  3. monitoring Jul 05, 2024, 07:23 AM UTC

    We are seeing a reduction in error rates and will continue to monitor the system and Swish's incident until it is resolved.

  4. resolved Jul 05, 2024, 09:36 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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