Stripe Outage History

Stripe experienced elevated error rates for Swish payment method transactions from 14:37-15:10 UTC due to an external issue. The disruption affected the acquirers and payment methods components, causing increased transaction failures for customers using Swish payments. The issue was resolved after 38 minutes of service impact.

Stripe experienced SMS delivery issues in the US for 2.9 hours, preventing users from receiving 2-factor authentication codes for dashboard access and OTP codes for Link and Express services. Alternative authentication methods like security keys and authenticator apps remained functional during the outage. The SMS delivery problems were fully resolved after affecting multiple Stripe services including Dashboard, Link, Issuing, and Express.

A processing issue with Stripe's banking partner caused delays for some Canadian payouts processed on April 14, 2026, affecting Stripe's core components. The incident lasted 22.4 hours while Stripe worked with their banking partner to resolve the issue. All affected payouts were successfully processed and posted on the same day once the banking partner issue was resolved.

Stripe experienced a 39-minute disruption of the Swish payment method from 10:11 to 10:50 UTC, causing elevated error rates for Swish transactions. The issue was external to Stripe and affected the acquirers and payment methods component. The disruption has been resolved.

Stripe experienced a partial service disruption affecting the BLIK payment method from 08:31 to 09:34 UTC, causing elevated error rates for BLIK transactions. The issue was external to Stripe's systems and impacted the acquirers and payment methods components. The disruption was resolved after approximately 1.1 hours of monitoring and investigation.

Stripe experienced a severe disruption with the Bancontact payment method from 09:48 to 11:02 UTC, causing elevated error rates for Bancontact transactions. The issue was external to Stripe and affected the acquirers and payment methods components. The disruption lasted 46 minutes and has been resolved.

Stripe experienced issues with their Dashboard, Express Dashboard, and Mobile surfaces from 07:55 to 09:59 UTC, preventing users from signing in and causing loading failures with receipt viewing and emailing functions. The incident lasted 1.2 hours and was resolved without affecting API requests or payment processing. Users reported being unable to access dashboards and encountering "unknown error" messages when attempting to view or send receipts.

Stripe experienced elevated error rates for iDEAL payment transactions between 14:25 - 14:45 UTC due to an external issue with the iDEAL payment method. The disruption affected the acquirers and payment methods components, causing increased transaction failures for customers using iDEAL. The external issue was resolved after 25 minutes, restoring normal iDEAL payment processing.

Stripe experienced elevated errors with Pix payments due to an external service disruption affecting the Pix payment method. The issue impacted payment processing through the acquirers and payment methods components for approximately 19.4 hours from March 22nd to March 23rd. The external issue was resolved and Pix payment functionality returned to normal.

Stripe experienced elevated error rates on Klarna payments between 10:45 - 13:39 UTC due to degraded performance from Klarna's service. The disruption affected the Klarna payment method within Stripe's acquirers and payment methods components, causing increased transaction failures. The issue was resolved after approximately 2 hours of impact.