Wise outage, March 2026: Issues with instant payments

Wise reported and resolved an incident: Issues with instant payments. It lasted 2 hours.

Resolved

From Wise's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
2 hours
Impact
minor
Affected
💱 Account, 💸 Payments, 🔗 API
  1. Investigating
  2. Identified
  3. Monitoring
  4. Resolved

Why it happened

Wise has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

How it was resolved

Wise marked it resolved at 6 Mar 2026, 1:27 am without a written explanation of the fix.

This incident on the Wise status page

Timeline

Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Wise's official status page, in their words.

  1. identified

    We're aware of an issue that's affecting customers. As a result, some customers are experiencing delays when adding money to their Wise accounts or when they move money between balances in their Wise account. This also affects Wise Platform partners. Our team is already working on a solution. We apologise for any inconvenience.

  2. monitoring

    Our team has implemented a fix and are monitoring the results. During that time, some customers may still experience delays when adding money to their Wise accounts or when they move money between balances in their Wise account. We appreciate your patience while our team works to resolve this.

  3. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

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

  • Retry anything that failed during the 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.

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