Outage report · Partial outage
Square Payments outage on Apr 30, 2026
Degraded Performance: Instant Transfers
SeverityPartial outage
StartedApr 30, 2026, 22:53UTC
ResolvedMay 1, 2026, 16:36UTC
Duration17h 43m
What happened
Square Payments reported a partial outage starting Apr 30, 2026, 22:53 UTC. It was marked resolved at May 1, 2026, 16:36 UTC.
- The incident lasted 17h 43m from first report to resolution.
- Square Payments had reported no other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
- 8 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.
Latest update from Square Payments
The disruption that impacted the ability to initiate Instant Transfers to debit cards is now resolved. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running for your business, and our Engineering team is actively discussing with our banking partners how to prevent future disruptions like this one. Thank you for your patience with us as we worked to resolve this issue.
What our independent monitoring saw
Our independent monitoring of Square Payments started after this incident, so this report is based on Square Payments's status page.
Other outages around the same time
Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.
Square Payments's overall reliability
53.3/100
Square Payments has a reliability score of 53.3/100, with 98.93% effective uptime and 12 incidents over the last 90 days.
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