Square Appointments outage, August 2026: Service Disruption
Square Appointments reported and resolved an incident: Service Disruption. It lasted 17 minutes.
OKResolved
From Square Appointments's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 17 minutes
- 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
The disruption affecting eftpos payment processing for some transactions at point of sale is now resolved. We appreciate your patience throughout this resolution process.
- monitoring
We're beginning to see eftpos payments return to full functionality. We'll continue to monitor the situation for a short while. Thank you for your patience as our team works to resolve this issue.
- investigating
We are currently experiencing intermittent disruptions with some eftpos payment processing at point of sale. As a workaround, we recommend customers use a non-eftpos card such as a Visa, Mastercard or Amex. Your ability to accept payments is our top priority and our Engineering team is working rapidly to resolve this issue. We appreciate your patience during this disruption.
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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