Countingup incident
Provider outage impacting online card payments and outbound account transfers
Countingup experienced a major incident on April 26, 2026 affecting 📤 Outbound account transfers and 💳 Card payments, lasting 14h 45m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 26, 2026, 09:03 AM UTC
One of our providers is experiencing technical difficulties, this is affecting the 3DSecure system that is used when you use your Countingup card to make purchases online (ecommerce). These payments will not succeed if they are required to be verified through 3DSecure. In person card payments (contactless, chip & pin) are not affected. We are working with our provider to resolve this as soon as possible and apologise for any inconvenience caused.
- investigating Apr 26, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC
Our provider is also experiencing intermittent issues with outbound account transfers using the Faster Payments scheme. Customers may see errors in the mobile app when trying to make outbound account transfers. We apologise for the continued inconvenience caused.
- investigating Apr 26, 2026, 01:49 PM UTC
Our provider has resolved the issue affecting the 3DSecure system that is used when you use your Countingup card to make purchases online (ecommerce). These payments will now succeed again. The provider continues to work on resolving the issues impacting outbound account transfers. We apologise for the continued inconvenience caused.
- monitoring Apr 26, 2026, 11:37 PM UTC
Outbound account transfers are now operating normally. We will continue to monitor the situation with our provider, and apologise for any inconvenience caused.
- resolved Apr 26, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.