Square is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Payment Acceptance and Point of Sale and 1 more component, which began 13h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 04, 2026, 08:54 PM UTC
Status: Investigating We are experiencing a disruption with Point of Sale and Payment Acceptance. Your business operations are our top priority and our Engineering team is working rapidly to resolve this issue. If your device is affected, you can resolve this now by going to Hardware > General > About Register > Software Update > Check for Update, and confirming app version 7.18.1 or 7.19 is installed. We appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue. Affected components Payment Acceptance (Degraded performance) Point of Sale (Degraded performance) Square Hardware (Degraded performance)