Pin Payments outage, May 2024: Charge Processing Failures

Pin Payments reported and resolved an incident: Charge Processing Failures. It lasted 1 minute.

Resolved

From Pin Payments's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
1 minute
Impact
none
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  3. Monitoringnot posted
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

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

How it was resolved

For a period of approximately 8 minutes during a routine software update, the API was experiencing a partial outage and some charge requests were failing with a 500 error message. The system was recovered and charges are now processing normally.

Pin Payments's closing update

This incident on the Pin Payments status page

Timeline

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

  1. resolved

    For a period of approximately 8 minutes during a routine software update, the API was experiencing a partial outage and some charge requests were failing with a 500 error message. The system was recovered and charges are now processing normally.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 1 minute.
  • 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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