Square Appointments outage, July 2026: Payment Disruption
Square Appointments reported and resolved an incident: Payment Disruption. It lasted 3.2 hours.
OKResolved
From Square Appointments's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 3.2 hours
- Impact
- minor
Why it happened
Square Appointments has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.
Timeline
Newest first. From Square Appointments's official status page, in their words.
- resolved
Payment acceptance has been restored to full functionality. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running for your business, and our Engineering team continues to work with our payment parters to strengthen our systems against similar incidents. We appreciate your patience throughout this resolution process.
- identified
We're continuing to work with our payment processing partner to resolve a disruption with payment processing. Sellers may see some Visa, Mastercard and debit card transactions declined at point of sale. If possible, we recommend customers use a different payment method such as JBC, American Express and e-money. Your ability to accept payments is our top priority and our Engineering team is working with our payments partner to resolve this issue. We appreciate your patience.
- investigating
Square's payment processing partner is experiencing a disruption with payment processing. As a result, sellers may see some Visa and Mastercard transactions declined at point of sale. If possible, we recommend customers use a different payment method. Your ability to accept payments is our top priority and our Engineering team is working with our payments partner to resolve this issue. We appreciate your patience.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 3.2 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.
The full guide: what to do when a service you rely on is down
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