Square Status · History · Incident #100407

RESOLVED

Payment Disruption

Minor · Started Jul 15, 2026 · 11:43 PM

  • Duration

    3h 11m

  • Severity

    Minor

  • Detection lead

  • User reports

Summary

Payment Disruption

Payment acceptance has been restored to full functionality. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running for your business, and our Engineering team continues to work with our payment parters to strengthen our systems against similar incidents. We appreciate your patience throughout this resolution process.


  • Started

    Jul 15, 2026 · 11:43 PM

  • Resolved

    Jul 16, 2026 · 2:55 AM

  • Duration

    3h 11m

  • Severity

    Minor

Event timeline

How this incident unfolded

  • Investigating

    Jul 15 · 11:43 PM Square

    Square's payment processing partner is experiencing a disruption with payment processing. As a result, sellers may see some Visa and Mastercard transactions declined at point of sale. If possible, we recommend customers use a different payment method. Your ability to accept payments is our top priority and our Engineering team is working with our payments partner to resolve this issue. We appreciate your patience.

  • Identified

    Jul 16 · 1:06 AM Square

    We're continuing to work with our payment processing partner to resolve a disruption with payment processing. Sellers may see some Visa, Mastercard and debit card transactions declined at point of sale. If possible, we recommend customers use a different payment method such as JBC, American Express and e-money. Your ability to accept payments is our top priority and our Engineering team is working with our payments partner to resolve this issue. We appreciate your patience.

  • Resolved

    Jul 16 · 2:55 AM Square

    Payment acceptance has been restored to full functionality. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running for your business, and our Engineering team continues to work with our payment parters to strengthen our systems against similar incidents. We appreciate your patience throughout this resolution process.

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