Stripe Outage History

Stripe experienced elevated error rates and response times for Cartes Bancaires payments due to an issuer-side degradation that began at 07:23 UTC on June 4th. The incident affected Stripe's acquirers and payment methods components and likely impacted multiple payment processors beyond Stripe's infrastructure. The issue was resolved after 9.1 hours at 13:51 UTC on June 5th.

Stripe experienced a partial service disruption affecting the Bancontact payment method from 13:38-13:53 UTC, causing elevated error rates for transactions processed through this payment method. The issue was external to Stripe and impacted their acquirers and payment methods components. The disruption was resolved after 15 minutes of downtime.

Stripe experienced elevated errors with Pay_by_bank payments starting at 08:40 UTC, affecting their acquirers and payment methods components. The incident lasted 28 minutes and was classified as minor in severity. The service was investigating the issue to identify and resolve the cause of the payment processing errors.

Stripe experienced elevated errors with Pay_by_bank payments starting at 08:40 UTC, affecting their acquirers and payment methods components. The incident lasted 4.8 hours and was classified as minor severity. The service was investigating the issue to identify and implement a resolution.

Stripe experienced an 18.9-hour partial outage affecting SEPA Instant services, causing delays and failures for EUR instant payouts to bank accounts, Bank Transfers payments, and Pay by Bank payments in Europe due to broader industry issues. Other payout methods, including instant payouts to debit cards, remained unaffected throughout the incident. The issue was resolved after Stripe worked with upstream partners to restore full functionality to all affected European payment services.

Stripe experienced elevated error rates and response times with MobilePay payment processing between 14:18-17:20 UTC on May 16th. The incident affected acquirers and payment methods for approximately 2.9 hours. The issue has been resolved.

Stripe experienced elevated error rates and response times with Apple Pay requests between 02:59–04:58 UTC on May 16th, affecting acquirers and payment methods. The incident lasted approximately 1.7 hours and has been resolved.

Stripe experienced elevated API errors affecting the Swish payment method and other acquirers/payment methods for 9 minutes. The service disruption was resolved as of 09:48 UTC, with Stripe continuing to monitor and validate the fix.

Stripe experienced a partial service disruption of the Swish payment method from 09:09-09:48 UTC, causing elevated error rates for transactions processed through this payment method. The issue was external to Stripe and affected the acquirers and payment methods components. The disruption was resolved after approximately 40 minutes.

Stripe experienced elevated authentication requests from issuing banks in the UK and France, impacting card transactions requiring Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). The issue affected acquirers and payment methods for 41 minutes between 11:40 UTC and 14:35 UTC on May 8th, 2026. The authentication request issues have been resolved.