Pin Payments outage, July 2022: Charge Processing Failures

Pin Payments reported and resolved an incident: Charge Processing Failures. It lasted 28 minutes.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
28 minutes
Impact
major
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 30 July 2022, 10:46 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

    We are currently seeing an unusually high number of charge failures from one of our upstream providers. We are working with the provider to identify the issue.

  2. monitoring

    The upstream provider has resolved the issue and transactions are processing successfully. We will continue 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 28 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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