Pin Payments outage, June 2019: Processing errors for New Zealand merchants

Pin Payments reported and resolved an incident: Processing errors for New Zealand merchants. It lasted 2.9 hours.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
2.9 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
API
  1. Investigating
  2. Identified
  3. Monitoring
  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 3 June 2019, 7:43 pm 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. identified

    We have detected a number of processing errors for our New Zealand merchants. We have identified this issue is occurring at one of our upstream suppliers. We are working to rectify the situation.

  2. monitoring

    Our upstream provider has fixed the issue. We are continuing to monitor the situation.

  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 2.9 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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