Square AU Outage History

There were 9 Square AU outages since February 4, 2026 totaling 22h 26m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://au.issquareup.com

Minor May 1, 2026

[Canada 🇨🇦] Degraded Performance: Instant Transfers

Detected by Pingoru: May 01, 2026, 04:36 PM UTC
Resolved: May 01, 2026, 04:36 PM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: 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)

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Minor April 20, 2026

[Australia 🇦🇺] Service Disruption

Detected by Pingoru: Apr 20, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC
Resolved: Apr 20, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC
Duration: —

Affected: 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 Point of Sale (Operational) Payment Acceptance (Degraded performance)
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)

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Minor April 20, 2026

Service Disruption

Detected by Pingoru: Apr 20, 2026, 09:54 PM UTC
Resolved: Apr 20, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC
Duration: 1h 24m

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Minor April 1, 2026

[Japan 🇯🇵] PayPay payments acceptance issue

Detected by Pingoru: Apr 01, 2026, 01:48 PM UTC
Resolved: Apr 01, 2026, 01:48 PM UTC
Duration: —

Timeline · 2 updates

investigating Apr 01, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC

Status: Investigating We are currently experiencing a disruption that is impacting some Square services. 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)
resolved Apr 01, 2026, 01:48 PM UTC

Status: Resolved From 7:45pm to 10:45pm JST, we experienced a disruption that impacted PayPay payment acceptance due to the issue at our partner company. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running for your business and our partner company 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.

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Minor April 1, 2026