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Square Australia Outage History

Every past Square Australia outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 616 Square Australia outages since May 2021. The 49 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor May 4, 2026

May 2026: Service Disruption

Detected May 4, 2026 7:31 PM EDT · Resolved May 4, 2026 9:25 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Square Australia experienced a service disruption lasting 1.9 hours where digital wallet tap payments were being declined at Square card readers, with customers seeing errors like "This card is not accepted" or "Insert or use another card." The issue was initially reported to affect Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay, but was later narrowed down to specifically impact Samsung Pay transactions. Customers were advised to use physical cards or alternative payment methods as a workaround while engineering teams worked on a fix.

Minor April 20, 2026

April 2026: Service Disruption

Detected Apr 20, 2026 5:54 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 20, 2026 7:19 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Square Australia experienced a service disruption that impacted some eftpos payments for 1.4 hours. The engineering team actively worked on resolving the payment processing issues. The incident was classified as minor and has been addressed.

Minor April 16, 2026

April 2026: Service Disruption

Detected Apr 16, 2026 7:57 PM EDT · Resolved Apr 16, 2026 8:19 PM EDT · Duration 22 minutes

Square Australia experienced a service disruption that impacted some of their services for 22 minutes. The engineering team actively worked on resolving the issue during this time. The incident was classified as minor and has since been resolved.

Minor March 17, 2026

March 2026: Service Disruption

Detected Mar 17, 2026 1:33 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 17, 2026 2:55 PM EDT · Duration about 1 hour

Square Australia experienced a service disruption that impacted some of their services for 1.4 hours. The engineering team actively worked on the issue and released a fix that restored impacted services to full functionality. The incident was classified as minor and services returned to normal operation.

Minor February 28, 2026

February 2026: Service Disruption

Detected Feb 28, 2026 3:02 PM EST · Resolved Feb 28, 2026 3:20 PM EST · Duration 18 minutes

Square Australia experienced a service disruption that impacted some of their services for 18 minutes. The engineering team actively worked on resolving the issue during this time. The disruption was classified as minor and has since been addressed.