Lithic Outage History
Lithic is up right nowLithic had 42 outages in the last 2 years totaling 55h 50m of downtime — averaging 1.7 incidents per month.
There were 42 Lithic outages since August 29, 2024 totaling 55h 50m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.
Delays in Mastercard clearing and dispute data
Timeline · 2 updates
- investigating Jul 03, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC
Some customers are experiencing delays in receiving a subset of Mastercard clearing and dispute data. We are investigating the issue.
- resolved Jul 03, 2026, 11:43 PM UTC
Mastercard processing issues have been identified, resolved, and backlog processing is complete. This incident is resolved.
Intermittent API Timeouts
Timeline · 5 updates
- investigating Jun 15, 2026, 03:15 PM UTC
Customers may experience elevated error rates and timeouts, including intermittent failures when provisioning cards and creating cards with dynamic card art or a qr code.
- identified Jun 15, 2026, 04:15 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- identified Jun 15, 2026, 06:38 PM UTC
We are currently implementing a fix. Please note, this will cause 1-5 minutes of downtime.
- monitoring Jun 15, 2026, 07:13 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Jun 15, 2026, 08:34 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
API Partial Degredation
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved Jun 08, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC
Api partially degraded and timing out 9:55-10:10 UTC
Delays in clearing events
Timeline · 2 updates
- monitoring Jun 02, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue that is causing a delay in clearing events from Mastercard.
- resolved Jun 02, 2026, 07:30 PM UTC
Mastercard clearing files containing errors resulted in delayed processing of Mastercard clearings for 2026-06-02. As of 18:00 UTC all clearing events and associated Settlement API records were complete. Network Totals data was marked as complete at 19:25 UTZ.
Card Network Connectivity Disruption
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved May 14, 2026, 03:19 PM UTC
Between 22:02–22:07 ET on May 13, authorization decisions were handled by card network stand-in processing rather than Lithic. Customers may have seen approvals or declines that differed from normal Lithic behavior during this window.
Delay in Settlement Reporting
Timeline · 2 updates
- identified May 01, 2026, 09:23 PM UTC
Visa is experiencing an incident affecting VisaNet Clearing and Settlement file delivery. This is causing delays in our Settlement Summary completion and Settlement API data. We are actively monitoring the situation and will update this page as we learn more.
- resolved May 01, 2026, 11:41 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Transaction webhooks delayed for a subset of customers
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 04:45 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue causing increased latency in delivery of transaction webhooks for some customers. Authorization processing is unaffected.
- monitoring Apr 22, 2026, 04:52 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Apr 22, 2026, 05:54 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Digital Wallet Tokenization
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 02:11 PM UTC
We are investigating an issue that is preventing cards from being added to digital wallets.
- identified Apr 22, 2026, 03:30 PM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring Apr 22, 2026, 03:34 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Apr 22, 2026, 03:58 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Sandbox Environment Degradation
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved Apr 07, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC
We experienced an issue with our sandbox environment where card authorizations were failing and API requests were returning unexpected errors. Our engineering team identified the root cause and restored service.
Delays with newly created cards
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating Apr 02, 2026, 01:33 AM UTC
We are investigating an issue that may cause unexpected declines in cards that were created in the last 30 minutes.
- identified Apr 02, 2026, 01:49 AM UTC
We've identified the issue and are seeing improvements in behavior across the network.
- resolved Apr 02, 2026, 02:08 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Unexpected declines
Timeline · 4 updates
- monitoring Feb 24, 2026, 04:30 PM UTC
Between 16:12 UTC and 16:21 UTC, some ACH transactions were unexpectedly declined. We are working to identify the root cause and scope of impact.
- investigating Feb 24, 2026, 05:06 PM UTC
We have identified an issue that is causing unexpected declines on some programs and are currently investigating.
- monitoring Feb 24, 2026, 05:17 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Feb 24, 2026, 06:59 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Elevated errors from API
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved Feb 22, 2026, 06:11 PM UTC
We observed elevated response errors from our public API between 16:18 UTC and 16:38 UTC. The issue has since been resolved. Transaction processing was not affected.
Unexpected declines for newly created cards
Timeline · 2 updates
- investigating Feb 17, 2026, 05:49 PM UTC
We are currently experiencing an issue causing unexpected declines on some newly created cards. Our team is actively investigating. We will provide updates as more information becomes available.
- resolved Feb 17, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC
We detected an issue that caused unexpected declines on cards that were created between 2026-02-17 17:05 UTC and 2026-02-17 17:53 UTC. The issue has been since resolved, and cards created during that time can now transact as expected.
Cards created between 20:05 and 20:25 UTC lag in processing
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved Dec 16, 2025, 08:42 PM UTC
Cards created between 2025-12-16 20:05 and 20:25 were unable to transact until this was resolved at 20:25 UTC.
Notice: Tokenization Declines Occurred Nov 25 -Issue Resolved
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved Nov 26, 2025, 12:33 AM UTC
A change deployed on our end caused tokenizations to be declined between 2025-11-25 00:15:00 and 2025-11-25 02:19:00 UTC. The issue has since been fully resolved, and tokenization behavior has returned to normal.
Investigating unexpected declines
Timeline · 6 updates
- investigating Nov 11, 2025, 12:47 AM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue that may be causing unexpected declines on MasterCard authorizations.
- investigating Nov 11, 2025, 01:09 AM UTC
We are continuing to investigate unexpected declines and are working with our network partners on a resolution.
- identified Nov 11, 2025, 01:57 AM UTC
We have identified the issue causing unexpected declines on authorizations and are actively working with our network partners to implement a resolution.
- identified Nov 11, 2025, 04:03 AM UTC
We apologize for the delay. We can confirm that a fix will be implemented soon and will provide an ETA once we receive confirmation from our network partners.
- monitoring Nov 11, 2025, 06:28 AM UTC
A fix has been deployed and we are seeing improvement in authorizations across the network.
- resolved Nov 11, 2025, 06:38 AM UTC
Working with our network partners, we have resolved an issue that was affecting a portion of MasterCard authorizations for one specific issuer. Normal processing has resumed
Newly provisioned cards unable to transact
Timeline · 3 updates
- identified Nov 04, 2025, 06:38 PM UTC
We have identified an issue on our end causing newly provisioned cards to be unable to transact, beginning with cards created after 17:34 UTC 2025-11-04
- monitoring Nov 04, 2025, 06:50 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Nov 04, 2025, 06:55 PM UTC
The issue has been resolved and all cards are now able to transact.
3rd Party Vendor Impacts
Timeline · 5 updates
- identified Oct 20, 2025, 09:57 PM UTC
Lithic Dashboard is experiencing continued degradation and we are working on further mitigations. Due to the ongoing AWS outage we are experiencing some service degradation as a result of impact to some of our vendors: - We are still experiencing some delay in KYB status updates - Tokenizations and OTP have been processed successfully throughout the day, however some intermittent impact may have occurred due to impact to our SMS and email OTP vendors
- identified Oct 20, 2025, 11:47 PM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- identified Oct 21, 2025, 12:03 AM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
- monitoring Oct 21, 2025, 11:38 AM UTC
API and Dashboard operations returned to normal functionality. We are still monitoring an issue where a small number of digital wallet tokenizations are being declined unexpectedly.
- resolved Oct 21, 2025, 02:26 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Delays in Transaction API Data
Timeline · 4 updates
- investigating Oct 08, 2025, 01:00 AM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue that may delay the return of transaction data.
- identified Oct 08, 2025, 01:39 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring Oct 08, 2025, 02:35 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Oct 08, 2025, 03:01 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Increase in errors on AMEX tokenizations
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating Oct 02, 2025, 05:19 PM UTC
We are currently experiencing elevated errors in AMEX tokenizations. This is causing tokenizations on AMEX to be declined.
- monitoring Oct 02, 2025, 05:33 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Oct 02, 2025, 06:34 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Unexpected Card Tokenization Declines
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved Sep 10, 2025, 09:24 PM UTC
We have been made aware of an issue that caused unexpected card tokenization declines between 19:10 UTC and 20:30 UTC. During this time, cardholders were unable to add cards to digital wallets.
Delays in outgoing webhooks
Timeline · 2 updates
- investigating Sep 05, 2025, 03:28 PM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue that may be causing delays in outgoing webhooks.
- resolved Sep 05, 2025, 03:56 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
delayed webhook delivery
Timeline · 3 updates
- identified Aug 22, 2025, 10:05 PM UTC
We are seeing slightly degraded/delayed Webhook delivery for some customers, but that authorization processing is unaffected. We are investigating and working on remediating.
- monitoring Aug 22, 2025, 10:26 PM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Aug 22, 2025, 10:46 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
KYC Service Issues
Timeline · 1 update
- resolved May 29, 2025, 09:12 PM UTC
A small number of customers may have experienced interruptions with KYC service between 13:20 to 13:40 UTC today.