Toast API experienced a critical incident on October 20, 2025 affecting Cash Management API and Config API and 1 more component, lasting 16h 32m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 20, 2025, 07:34 PM UTC
The Orders API is currently down. All requests to the Orders API will return 503 errors. We're investigating the situation and will update here.
- investigating Oct 20, 2025, 08:55 PM UTC
We are continuing to investigate this issue and will post updates here.
- identified Oct 20, 2025, 09:43 PM UTC
Our APIs will be returning 429s as capacity is scaled and systems are variously brought back online. We're leaving the incident as open and APIs an experiencing major outages.
- identified Oct 20, 2025, 11:33 PM UTC
All APIs are back online now, except for the Orders API. Endpoints in the Orders API will return 503 error responses for a while longer.
- monitoring Oct 21, 2025, 12:08 AM UTC
Our APIs have recovered and are fully available. We'll continue to monitor our systems.
- resolved Oct 21, 2025, 12:07 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.