Pin Payments outage, March 2017: High rate of charge failures

Pin Payments reported and resolved an incident: High rate of charge failures. It lasted 17 minutes.

Resolved

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

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
17 minutes
Impact
none
  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 28 Mar 2017, 8:42 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

    One of our financial service providers is experiencing technical issues preventing charges from completing. They have been made aware of this and are addressing the issue.

  2. monitoring

    We are monitoring the results of our service provider's fix.

  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 17 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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