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Clear Books is up

No new incidents. 1 long-running issue listed below.

Clear Books is operational right now, apart from 1 long-running issue open since April 30, 2026. Last checked 2m ago.

Real-time Clear Books status, recent outages, and incident history: pulled directly from Clear Books's official status page at status.clearbooks.co.uk every 5 minutes. Pingoru tracks 65 Clear Books services and has captured 11 incidents in the last 90 days (100.00% uptime). Get email, Slack, Discord, or webhook alerts the moment Clear Books reports a new incident, free for 3 monitors, no credit card.

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Recent outages & incidents

Past 90 days
  1. Resolved –
    Started Oct 23, 2026, 04:00 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 23, 2026, 04:00 PM UTC
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 23, 2026, 04:00 PM UTC

      HMRC are performing [scheduled maintenance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-software-to-send-income-tax-updates-service-availability-and-issues/use-software-to-send-income-tax-updates-service-availability-and-issues) from 8am Sunday 25th to 12pm Sunday 25th October. You may be unable to view or submit your MTD for Income Tax or VAT information during this time.

    Latest: HMRC are performing [scheduled maintenance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-software-to-send-income-tax-updates-service-availability-and-issues/use-software-to-send-…

  2. Resolved –
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC

      Clear Books is currently undergoing emergency maintenance and some features may be temporarily unavailable. We're working to restore full service as soon as we can. Apologies for the inconvenience. Update 2026-10-21 15:40:00 BST: We've finished the majority of the maintenance, and most of Clear Books should now be functioning normally Update 2026-10-21 17:34:00 BST: All maintenance work is now complete and all functionality has been restored

    Latest: Clear Books is currently undergoing emergency maintenance and some features may be temporarily unavailable. We're working to restore full service as soon as we can. Apologies for t…

  3. Resolved –
    Started Oct 05, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 05, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC
    HMRC ITSA (MTD)
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 05, 2026, 07:40 AM UTC

      We're seeing intermittent errors from HMRC's MTD for Income Tax service at the moment. If you experience an error when making a submission or trying to set up your link to HMRC, trying again should resolve it in most cases. 2026-10-06 10:30:00 BST - We're seeing a further degredation in performance with errors becoming more frequent 2026-10-08 20:00:00 BST - Performance appears to be back to normal

    Latest: We're seeing intermittent errors from HMRC's MTD for Income Tax service at the moment. If you experience an error when making a submission or trying to set up your link to HMRC, tr…

  4. Resolved –
    Started Oct 03, 2026, 06:15 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 03, 2026, 06:15 AM UTC
    HMRC ITSA (MTD)
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 03, 2026, 06:15 AM UTC

      HMRC are currently experiencing an outage of their MTD services, and as a result these features will not be functioning in Clear Books. We are awaiting a fix from HMRC. 2026-10-03 07:30:00 BST - We are seeing MTD functionality return to normal

    Latest: HMRC are currently experiencing an outage of their MTD services, and as a result these features will not be functioning in Clear Books. We are awaiting a fix from HMRC. 2026-10-03 …

  5. Resolved –
    Started Sep 30, 2026, 08:48 PM UTC · Resolved Sep 30, 2026, 08:48 PM UTC
    HMRC ITSA (MTD)
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Sep 30, 2026, 08:48 PM UTC

      HMRC are currently experiencing an outage of their MTD services, and as a result these features will not be functioning in Clear Books. We are awaiting a fix from HMRC. 2026-09-30 22:18:00 BST - We are seeing MTD functionality return to normal

    Latest: HMRC are currently experiencing an outage of their MTD services, and as a result these features will not be functioning in Clear Books. We are awaiting a fix from HMRC. 2026-09-30 …

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Incident record

Since April 2026 · Cachet · 65 components checked every 5 minutes
45incidents recorded
12last 12 months
11last 90 days
–typical duration, 12 months

Most affected components, last 12 months

  • HMRC ITSA (MTD)5
  • The Co-operative Bank2

Latest incidents

  • HMRC Scheduled Maintenance October 23, 2026 · under a minute · degraded service

    HMRC are performing [scheduled…

  • Emergency maintenance October 21, 2026 · under a minute · degraded service

    Clear Books is currently undergoing emergency maintenance and some features may be temporarily unavailable. We're working to restore full service as soon as we…

  • HMRC MTD intermittent errors October 5, 2026 · under a minute · degraded service

    We're seeing intermittent errors from HMRC's MTD for Income Tax service at the moment. If you experience an error when making a submission or trying to set up…

Outage history

Past 90 days · 11 incidents View full outage history →