Housecall Pro outage, December 2021: Upstream Provider Issue

Housecall Pro reported and resolved an incident: Upstream Provider Issue. It lasted 6.7 hours.

Resolved

From Housecall Pro's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
6.7 hours
Impact
major
Affected
Pro web, Payment processing - Stripe, Email notifications, Wisetack

Why it happened

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

This incident on the Housecall Pro status page

Timeline

Newest first. From Housecall Pro's official status page, in their words.

  1. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoring

    The back-end service provider is recovering and things should be returning to normal, although there may be some delays.

  3. monitoring

    The back-end service provider is recovering and things should be returning to normal, although there may be some delays.

  4. identified

    The upstream service provider has begun executing a fix. Some services may begin to function again. We do not yet have an ETA on a full recovery.

  5. identified

    We are monitoring a service provider outage impacting multiple 3rd-party providers that we use (loans, email sending and tax calculations).

  6. identified

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  7. identified

    We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

  8. identified

    We are monitoring a service provider outage impacting multiple 3rd-party providers that we use (loans, email sending and tax calculations).

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 6.7 hours.
  • 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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