Live status & reliability report
Shift4 Payments status, outages & reliability
Shift4 is a Pennsylvania-based payment processor that provides card processing, gateway and funding services to merchants in hospitality, retail and e-commerce.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated
Over the last 90 days Shift4 Payments had 99.36% effective uptime across 5 status page incidents (2 partial or major outages), resolving them in 19h 29m on average.
Is Shift4 Payments down right now?
No, Shift4 Payments is up and running.
- Shift4 Payments's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
- All 2 Shift4 Payments pages we check are responding. Checked .
90-day uptime
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Key facts about Shift4 Payments's reliability
- Over the past 12 months, Shift4 Payments published 13 incidents on its status page, 5 of them partial or major outages.
- Its longest outage on record in that time was “Partial Funding Delay - 8-24-2026” on Aug 24, 2026, which lasted 3h 24m.
- The part of Shift4 Payments most often affected was Merchant Funding USA (5 of 13 incidents).
- Incidents most often began on a Thursday (4 of 13, UTC).
- Shift4 Payments's 90-day uptime of 99.36% is above the average for payment processors (98.96%).
- It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical payment processor: 19h 29m on average, against a median of 4h 34m.
Score breakdown
Incidents per month
- Major outage
- Partial outage
- Degraded
- Informational
Response time
Daily average response time of Shift4 Payments's public pages, measured by our probes.
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Score trend
Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).
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Shift4 Payments incident history (last 90 days)
- Degraded performanceOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 7d 4h
Affected: Merchant Funding USA, Card Processing
- Degraded performanceOct 22, 2026 · resolved in 1h 29m
Timeouts for US processing 10/22/26
Affected: TSYS, Shift4 Dine POS - US, eCommerce, Shift4 One, Shift4 Venue Payments (US)
- InformationalSep 11, 2026 · resolved in 53m
Affected: Shift4 Dine POS - US, Shift4 Dine POS - Canada, Shift4 Dine POS - UK/EU, Shift4 Dine Mobile, Shift4 Dine Online Ordering, Shift4 Dine Kiosk
- Major outageSep 10, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
Affected: Eigen Gateway
- Partial outageAug 24, 2026 · resolved in 3h 24m
Partial Funding Delay - 8-24-2026
Affected: Merchant Funding USA
Source: Shift4 Payments status page · last checked
Our independent monitoring
We check these public Shift4 Payments pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.
| Page | Last check | Uptime (30d) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merchant portal (Lighthouse Transaction Manager) | Up | 100% | 802 ms |
| Developer site | Up | 100% | 1054 ms |
How Shift4 Payments compares
Shift4 Payments status FAQ
Is Shift4 Payments down right now?
No, Shift4 Payments is up and running. Shift4 Payments's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 2 of the Shift4 Payments pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.
How reliable is Shift4 Payments?
Shift4 Payments has a reliability score of 57.8 out of 100, ranking #6 of 13 payment processors. Over the last 90 days it had 99.36% effective uptime.
How often does Shift4 Payments have outages?
Shift4 Payments published 5 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (2 partial or major outages) and 13 in the past 12 months.
How long do Shift4 Payments outages last?
Shift4 Payments resolves incidents in 19h 29m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 3h 24m, on Aug 24, 2026.
Does Shift4 Payments have a status page?
Yes. Shift4 Payments's official status page is status.shift4.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.