Housecall Pro outage, December 2021: Application restoring after upstream provider outage

Housecall Pro reported and resolved an incident: Application restoring after upstream provider outage. It lasted 1.7 hours.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
1.7 hours
Impact
none
Affected
Pro web, Payment processing - Stripe, QuickBooks Online, Text notifications, Email notifications, Online booking, Google calendar, Consumer web, Add a job API, iOS Mobile App, Android mobile app, Customer job preview

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

    All outages have been fully restored and Housecall Pro is back online. Thank you for your patience as we quickly worked through the outage with our web service provider.

  2. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. Web and mobile apps are back up and running.

  3. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  4. monitoring

    We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

  5. monitoring

    Our web service provider has began to resolve the issues affecting our platform. Users should begin to see Housecall Pro services coming back online. We are continuing to monitor the issue and restore our platform back to normal.

  6. investigating

    We are currently investigating an issue with an upstream provider that is causing our application and many third party integrations to be unavailable.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 1.7 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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