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Square Outage History

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

There were 1129 Square outages since February 2020. The 87 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

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 21 minutes

Square experienced a service disruption that impacted some of their services for 21 minutes. The engineering team actively worked on resolving the issue during this time. The incident was classified as minor and has since been addressed.

Minor April 1, 2026

April 2026: Service Disruption

Detected Apr 1, 2026 8:20 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 1, 2026 9:51 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Square experienced a service disruption that impacted some of their services for 1.5 hours. 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 19, 2026

March 2026: Payment Acceptance Degradation in Japan

Detected Mar 19, 2026 6:36 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 19, 2026 6:54 AM EDT · Duration 18 minutes

Square experienced a payment acceptance disruption in Japan affecting QUICPay and iD payment methods starting at 6:14pm JST, caused by an issue with a partner company. The incident impacted businesses' ability to process these specific payment types for 18 minutes before being 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 experienced a service disruption that impacted some of their services for approximately 1.4 hours. The engineering team actively worked on the issue and released a fix, with impacted services beginning to return to full functionality. The incident was resolved and services were restored to normal operation.

Minor March 9, 2026

March 2026: Android Point of Sale Sellers Unable to Settle Split Tips

Detected Mar 9, 2026 1:36 PM EDT · Resolved Mar 9, 2026 6:42 PM EDT · Duration about 5 hours

Square experienced a 5.1-hour disruption affecting Android Point of Sale users on versions 6.97 or 6.98, preventing them from adding tips to the final portion of split transactions while still allowing tips on the first split. The issue was resolved with a software fix, and services returned to full functionality with the engineering team monitoring the restoration.

Minor March 3, 2026

March 2026: Nightly Settlement Transfers Delayed for Some Sellers

Detected Mar 3, 2026 11:22 AM EST · Resolved Mar 4, 2026 12:31 AM EST · Duration about 13 hours

Square experienced a 13.2-hour disruption where some sellers faced delays in receiving their nightly settlement transfers due to an industry-wide banking issue affecting multiple financial institutions. The problem impacted sellers' expected daily fund transfers to their bank accounts. Square resolved the issue with affected transfers expected to arrive in sellers' accounts by end of day.

Minor March 3, 2026

March 2026: Service Disruption

Detected Mar 3, 2026 11:19 AM EST · Resolved Mar 3, 2026 11:34 AM EST · Duration 15 minutes

Square experienced a service disruption that impacted some of their services for 15 minutes. The engineering team actively worked on resolving the issue during this time. The incident was classified as minor and affected business operations that rely on Square's services.

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 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 incident was classified as minor and has since been addressed.

Minor February 27, 2026

February 2026: Service Disruption

Detected Feb 27, 2026 10:14 AM EST · Resolved Feb 27, 2026 10:20 AM EST · Duration 6 minutes

Square experienced a service disruption that impacted some of their services for 6 minutes. The engineering team actively worked on resolving the issue during this time. The incident was classified as minor and affected business operations that rely on Square's services.