Expensify outage, January 2026: Site outage

Expensify reported and resolved an incident: Site outage. It lasted 3 minutes.

Resolved

From Expensify's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
3 minutes
Impact
critical
Affected
Expensify Website And Mobile App
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoringnot posted
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

Expensify has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

We identified the issue and pushed a fix. The site is back up.

Expensify's closing update

This incident on the Expensify status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Expensify's official status page, in their words.

  1. investigating

    We are currently experiencing a site outage. Our team is investigating to find and fix the root cause. We apologize for the inconvenience.

  2. resolved

    We identified the issue and pushed a fix. The site is back up.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 3 minutes.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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