Wise outage, January 2026: Issue with card pay-ins
Wise reported and resolved an incident: Issue with card pay-ins. It lasted 2.1 hours.
OKResolved
From Wise's official status page, in their words.
What happened
- Started
- Resolved
- Duration
- 2.1 hours
- Impact
- none
- Affected
- 📱 Mobile App, 📰 Website
- Investigating
- Identified
- Monitoringnot posted
- 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 8 Jan 2026, 5:09 am without a written explanation of the fix.
Timeline
Oldest first, from the first notice to the resolution. From Wise's official status page, in their words.
- identified
We are currently experiencing an issue which affects all card, GooglePay and Apple Pay payments to Wise accounts. Our team is working to fix this as soon as possible.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
What this means for a business (and what to check now)
- Retry anything that failed during the 2.1 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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- Delayed AED payments, resolved after 25 days
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