Pin Payments outage, November 2019: Upstream processing errors
Pin Payments reported and resolved an incident: Upstream processing errors. It lasted 9 minutes.
OKResolved
From Pin Payments's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 9 minutes
- Impact
- minor
- Affected
- API
- Investigating
- Identifiednot posted
- Monitoringnot posted
- Resolved
Why it happened
Pin Payments has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
How it was resolved
The issue appears to have been rectified. We will continue to monitor the Charge success rate.
Timeline
Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Pin Payments's official status page, in their words.
- investigating
An upstream supplier is returning an unusually high number of charge failures. We are investigating the issue. If you receive a charge failure please try again.
- investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
- resolved
The issue appears to have been rectified. We will continue to monitor the Charge success rate.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 9 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.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
Other Pin Payments incidents
- We are currently experiencing an upstream outage which is causing requests to fail. We are investigating the issue., resolved after 58 minutes
- Issue with processing charges, resolved after 1 minute
- Partial outage of charge creation, resolved after 2.1 hours
- Dashboard and Payment Page Outage Due to Cloudflare Issues, resolved after 2.6 hours
- Charge Processing Failures with American Express, resolved after 2.7 hours
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