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Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days- Payment Acceptance
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · May 04, 2026, 11:31 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We’re currently investigating an issue where some customers’ digital wallet tap payments (including Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay) are being declined at Square card readers. Affected buyers may see errors such as “This card is not accepted” or “Insert or use another card” when they try to tap to pay. As a workaround, please ask customers to use a physical card to tap, insert, or swipe at the point of sale. We know how important it is to have payments running smoothly, and our engineering teams are actively working on a fix. We’ll provide updates here and appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this issue. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Degraded performance)
- identified · May 05, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC
Status: Identified We’ve continued to investigate this issue and have narrowed the impact to Samsung Pay tap-to-pay transactions at Square card readers. At this time, we do not believe Apple Pay or Google Pay are affected. As a workaround, please ask customers using Samsung Pay to use a physical card to tap, insert, or swipe, or to pay with another wallet such as Apple Pay or Google Pay where available. Our engineering teams are actively working on a fix specific to Samsung Pay, and we will continue to post updates here. Thank you for your patience as we work to fully resolve this. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Degraded performance)
- resolved · May 05, 2026, 01:24 AM UTC
Status: Resolved Samsung has identified an issue impacting Samsung Pay tap to pay transactions, and plan to release a fix via an update to the Samsung Pay app. In the meantime, please ask customers using Samsung Pay to use a physical card to tap, insert, or swipe, or to pay with another wallet such as Apple Pay or Google Pay where available. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved Samsung has identified an issue impacting Samsung Pay tap to pay transactions, and plan to release a fix via an update to the Samsung Pay app. In the meantime, ple…
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- Payment Acceptance
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · May 04, 2026, 11:31 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We’re currently investigating an issue where some customers’ digital wallet tap payments (including Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay) are being declined at Square card readers. Affected buyers may see errors such as “This card is not accepted” or “Insert or use another card” when they try to tap to pay. As a workaround, please ask customers to use a physical card to tap, insert, or swipe at the point of sale. We know how important it is to have payments running smoothly, and our engineering teams are actively working on a fix. We’ll provide updates here and appreciate your patience while we work to resolve this issue. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Degraded performance)
- identified · May 05, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC
Status: Identified We’ve continued to investigate this issue and have narrowed the impact to Samsung Pay tap-to-pay transactions at Square card readers. At this time, we do not believe Apple Pay or Google Pay are affected. As a workaround, please ask customers using Samsung Pay to use a physical card to tap, insert, or swipe, or to pay with another wallet such as Apple Pay or Google Pay where available. Our engineering teams are actively working on a fix specific to Samsung Pay, and we will continue to post updates here. Thank you for your patience as we work to fully resolve this. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Degraded performance)
- resolved · May 05, 2026, 01:24 AM UTC
Status: Resolved Samsung has identified an issue impacting Samsung Pay tap to pay transactions, and plan to release a fix via an update to the Samsung Pay app. In the meantime, please ask customers using Samsung Pay to use a physical card to tap, insert, or swipe, or to pay with another wallet such as Apple Pay or Google Pay where available. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved Samsung has identified an issue impacting Samsung Pay tap to pay transactions, and plan to release a fix via an update to the Samsung Pay app. In the meantime, ple…
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- Transfers
Timeline · 2 updates
- identified · Apr 30, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC
Status: Identified Due to a third-party disruption with one of our banking partners, we are experiencing an increase in failures for some Instant Transfers to debit cards. While recovery has begun, Sellers experiencing issues with Instant Transfers can try linking a VISA debit card from a different banking institution and retry the transfer. We will continue to provide updates from our partner as we receive them. Thank you for your patience. Affected components Transfers (Partial outage)
- resolved · May 01, 2026, 04:36 PM UTC
Status: Resolved The disruption that impacted the ability to initiate Instant Transfers to debit cards is now resolved. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running for your business, and our Engineering team is actively discussing with our banking partners how to prevent future disruptions like this one. Thank you for your patience with us as we worked to resolve this issue. Affected components Transfers (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved The disruption that impacted the ability to initiate Instant Transfers to debit cards is now resolved. We understand how important it is for all of our services to…
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- Payment AcceptancePoint of Sale
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · Apr 20, 2026, 09:54 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are currently experiencing a disruption that is impacting some eftpos payments. We understand how important it is for your business for all of our services to be up and running, and our Engineering team is actively working on a fix. Thank you for your patience with us as we work to resolve this issue. Affected components Point of Sale (Degraded performance)
- investigating · Apr 20, 2026, 11:16 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are currently experiencing a disruption that is impacting eftpos payments. For now, we recommend customers use alternative methods of payments such as Visa, Mastercard or Amex. We understand how important it is for your business for all of our services to be up and running, and our Engineering team is actively working on a fix. Thank you for your patience with us as we work to resolve this issue. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Degraded performance) Point of Sale (Operational)
- resolved · Apr 20, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC
Status: Resolved We recently experienced a disruption that impacted the processing of some eftpos payments. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running for your business, and our Engineering team is actively discussing how to prevent future disruptions like this one. Thank you for your patience with us as we worked to resolve this issue. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Operational) Point of Sale (Operational)
Latest: Status: Resolved We recently experienced a disruption that impacted the processing of some eftpos payments. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running …
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- [Australia 🇦🇺] Service Disruption ResolvedStarted May 05, 2026, 01:24 AM UTC · Resolved May 05, 2026, 01:24 AM UTC · —
- [Spain 🇪🇸] Service Disruption ResolvedStarted May 05, 2026, 01:24 AM UTC · Resolved May 05, 2026, 01:24 AM UTC · —
- Started May 01, 2026, 04:36 PM UTC · Resolved May 01, 2026, 04:36 PM UTC · —
- [Australia 🇦🇺] Service Disruption ResolvedStarted Apr 20, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 20, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC · —
- Service Disruption ResolvedStarted Apr 20, 2026, 09:54 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 20, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC · 1h 24m
- Started Apr 01, 2026, 01:48 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 01, 2026, 01:48 PM UTC · —
- PayPay payments acceptance issue ResolvedStarted Apr 01, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC · Resolved Apr 01, 2026, 01:48 PM UTC · 1h 27m
- PayPay payments acceptance issue ResolvedStarted Mar 19, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC · Resolved Mar 19, 2026, 06:05 AM UTC · —