Pin Payments outage, April 2025: Partial outage with processing charges

Pin Payments reported and resolved an incident: Partial outage with processing charges. It lasted 8 minutes.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
8 minutes
Impact
none
Affected
API
  1. Investigating
  2. Identifiednot posted
  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 1 Apr 2025, 9:03 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. monitoring

    For a period of 35 minutes from 20:09 AEDT, merchants may have experienced charges being unexpectedly declined, due to a recent security upgrade. We have implemented a fix and are monitoring the situation.

  2. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 8 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.

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