2025: The year of the global cloud outage
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StatusGator detects outages before they are officially acknowledged by providers. Here are some recent Square disruptions that StatusGator customers knew about before the rest of the world:
This rating evaluates how quickly Square acknowledges incidents, the consistency of updates, and whether reported issues align with actual service disruptions experienced by users. Learn more.
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This rating evaluates how quickly Square acknowledges incidents, the consistency of updates, and whether reported issues align with actual service disruptions experienced by users. Learn more.
Avg. delay < 15 min
Avg. delay 15 - 30 min
Avg. delay 30 - 120 min
Avg. delay 2 - 4 hrs
Avg. delay >= 4 hrs
| Incident description | Duration | StatusGator detected | Officially acknowledged |
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| Unable to connect to Square systems. | 38m |
11m later
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| Website not loading due to Cloudflare blocking issues. | 1h 3m |
22m later
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| Store pages and online ordering not loading | 16m |
16m later
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| Payment processing errors affecting card and cash transactions | 26m |
31m later
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| Card payments not processing due to server outage | 50m |
Never acknowledged
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| Issues with payment processing delays | 1h 46m |
25m later
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| Issues with Square terminal receiving payments due to server connection problems | 2h 17m |
10m later
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| Dashboard not loading on webpage | 20m |
3m later
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| Issues loading sales and transaction reports on Square Register and app | 16m |
Never acknowledged
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| Issues with server downtime and customer rewards not functioning; appointment scheduling errors. | 24m |
Never acknowledged
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Follow the recent outages and downtime for Square in the table below. If you're experiencing a problem now, check the current Square status or report it.
| Incident Name | Duration | Started | Severity |
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Minor incident
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12d 25m |
Warn
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Minor incident
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10m |
Warn
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Minor incident
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20h 20m |
Warn
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Minor incident
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2h 15m |
Warn
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Minor incident
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35m |
Warn
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Square (Payment processing and business management for small businesses) is a a Payments solution that StatusGator has been monitoring since September 2018. Over the past over 7 years, we have collected data on on more than 1,931 outages that affected Square users. When Square publishes downtime on their status page, they do so across 192 components and 8 groups using 4 different statuses: up, warn, down, and maintenance which we use to provide granular uptime metrics and notifications.
If you're wondering, "Is Square down?", or need to know its current status, we've got you covered. Our platform tracks every reported outage, performance issue, and maintenance window to ensure you're informed. Whether Square is experiencing a problem now or has recently resolved one, our detailed history keeps you updated.
More than 300 StatusGator users monitor Square to get notified when it's down, is under maintenance, or has an outage. This makes it one of the most popular Payments services monitored on our platform. We've sent more than 23,400 notifications to our users about Square incidents, providing transparency and peace of mind. You can get alerts by signing up for a free StatusGator account.
If we detect a potential Square outage or other issue before it was reported on the official status page we will send an Early Warning Signal notification to StatusGator subscribers. We can often detect issues before they are officially acknowledged by the provider, giving you a head start on resolving any potential problems.
If Square is having system outages or experiencing other critical issues, red down notifications appear on the status page. In most cases, it means that core functions are not working properly, or there is some other serious customer-impacting event underway.
Warn notifications are used when Square is undergoing a non-critical issue like minor service issues, performance degradation, non-core bugs, capacity issues, or problems affecting a small number of users.
Square posts separate notifications for planned maintenance work. StatusGator will notify subscribers when Square enters a pre-planned maintenance window, keeping you up to date.
When Square posts issues on their status page, we collect the main headline message and include that brief information or overview in notifications to StatusGator subscribers.
When Square has outages or other service-impacting events on their status page, we pull down the detailed informational updates and include them in notifications. These messages often include the current details about how the problem is being mitigated, or when the next update will occur.
Because Square has several components, each with their individual statuses, StatusGator can differentiate the status of each component in our notifications to you whenever a particular component is down. This means, you can filter your status page notifications based on the services, regions, or components you utilize. This is an essential feature for complex services with many components or services spread out across many regions.
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