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Heartland Retail vs Zettle by PayPal: which is more reliable? (2026)

Heartland Retail and Zettle by PayPal are effectively tied on reliability (80.0 vs 78.1). Over the last 90 days Heartland Retail reported 0 incidents and Zettle by PayPal reported 2, with effective uptime of 100% and 99.82% respectively.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

MetricHeartland RetailZettle by PayPal
Reliability score80.078.1
Rank (retail POS systems)—#6
Uptime (90 days)100%99.82%
Incidents (90 days)02
Partial / major outages00
Avg time to resolve—12h 51m
Outages we detected00
Transparency score0/100100/100

Where Heartland Retail and Zettle by PayPal differ

  • Heartland Retail reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Zettle by PayPal reported 2.

90-day uptime

Heartland Retail

Aug 4, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026: no dataNov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago100% average daily uptimeToday

Zettle by PayPal

Aug 4, 2026 – Oct 6, 2026: no incidentsOct 7, 2026: 95.67% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 8, 2026: 89.86% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 9, 2026 – Oct 29, 2026: no incidentsOct 30, 2026: 98.39% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 31, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.821% average daily uptimeToday

Recent Heartland Retail incidents

No incidents reported by Heartland Retail in the last 90 days.

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Recent Zettle by PayPal incidents

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