Pin Payments outage, May 2019: Upstream processing errors

Pin Payments reported and resolved an incident: Upstream processing errors. It lasted 2.3 hours.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
2.3 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
API
  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

Pin Payments marked it resolved at 26 May 2019, 10:13 am without a written explanation of the fix.

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. 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.

  2. resolved

    Our upstream provider has resolved the issue.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 2.3 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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