thread Re: What the hell is going on? in Payments Troubleshooting

What the hell is going on?

MrWellFed — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 09:57:07 GMT

Card payments down on a busy Friday night? Unacceptable…

Re: What the hell is going on?

Jaynehurd — Fri, 07 May 2021 20:54:57 GMT

Yes our whole market was down so I guessing it was a full square issue.

Mine then took 2 payments off someone when telling me it hasn't. It looks so bad to my customer and I'm probably going to have to reimburse out 9f my pocket as the transactions are no where to be seen on square

Re: What the hell is going on?

Smithward — Fri, 07 May 2021 23:33:29 GMT

Yep. Payments down during our Friday evening rush. Busiest time of the week and we had people walking away when we advised them we were currently cash-only. Very frustrating, cost us a lot of money!

Re: What the hell is going on?

davo1973 — Fri, 07 May 2021 23:37:12 GMT

Yes me too!! so bad and frustrating

Re: What the hell is going on?

Jaynehurd — Sat, 08 May 2021 00:46:41 GMT

Yeh i bet there was millions of $ lost last night

Re: What the hell is going on?

MrWellFed — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:07:37 GMT

And it’s happening again tonight on Sunday…Mother’s Day!

and still no response from the Square team

Re: What the hell is going on?

MarkZammit — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:14:41 GMT

Confirmed more payments failures across Sydney venues tonight as well.

Re: What the hell is going on?

Scorpionbar — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:45:31 GMT

Payments down in the Hunter Valley. Can’t get through to square at all via phone. Will have to look at secondary processing for payments now.

Square says 'Declined: Failed to process this payment. Please try again' after swiping card

restaurateur — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:52:58 GMT

When I swipe a customer's card against my Square, the app on my phone would sometimes say 'Declined: Failed to process this payment. Please try again'. This happens for about 10 minutes a day. Accepting payments by Square usually works without issue.

Any idea how do I prevent this 'Declined' message occurring again?

Re: What the hell is going on?

Jaynehurd — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:55:00 GMT

Oh no not tonight as well 😞

I found that I couldnt get adequate support and am still waiting on a reply to email..

Re: What the hell is going on?

Jaynehurd — Sun, 09 May 2021 10:56:39 GMT

There were a many people who are having to find new payment options now that PayPal is stopping card reading process but after seeing the major fails I don't think they were liking the look of square

Re: What the hell is going on?

Scorpionbar — Sun, 09 May 2021 11:01:12 GMT

I’m think commbanks eftpos terminal might be a good backup. After two nights down, $30 a month starts to look like a good insurance policy. Might not be applicable to larger business though.

Re: What the hell is going on?

JungSung — Sun, 09 May 2021 11:25:44 GMT

This is crazy.!! Friday snd Sunday/ Mother’s Day.!! Please help. Jung Sung Chippendale Sydney.

why square not accept customer credit cards?

Scoopydoogelato — Sun, 09 May 2021 11:55:22 GMT

Why square not accept customer's credit cards or any cards?

Re: Square says 'Declined: Failed to process this payment. Please try again' after swiping card

3eMt — Sun, 09 May 2021 14:32:26 GMT

I had this issue recently too. Tonight it happen twice and it cause us loss few customer who doesn't have cash on hand. Square, I need this to be solve.

Re: What the hell is going on?

Jaynehurd — Sun, 09 May 2021 20:47:22 GMT

Surely it would be better to swap altogether than run two wouldn't it?

I guess you would still want the square pos app though?

Re: What the hell is going on?

Seamus — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 05:32:59 GMT

UPDATE: We have made a public postmortem available for this incident for those interested.

Hey everyone,

Thanks for all the feedback and sincere apologies for the issues you saw over the weekend.

At the moment our team is investigating an issue that saw some card payments declining for a period of time on Friday and Sunday nights. As of right now, the root cause of the issue is still being determined.

We plan to offer further information in the coming days as our engineering team investigates the root cause of the issue. Impacted sellers should receive an email with more information once our investigation is complete, and I'll revisit this thread once I'm able to share more news.

The issue itself is now resolved, and live updates about our services can be found at au.issquareup.com - you can also view a timeline of the issues we saw over the weekend here.

We understand how impactful these sorts of outages are to your business and take them very seriously. We are learning from this experience and putting in place measures to prevent instances of downtime in the future.

Again, we offer sincere apologies to any of our impacted sellers and thank you for your patience as we worked to resolve these issues.

@MrWellFed @Jaynehurd @3eMt @JungSung @Scorpionbar @MarkZammit @Smithward @davo1973 @restaurateur @Scoopydoogelato

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Lookbhindya — Mon, 10 May 2021 04:16:46 GMT

There seems to be a problem with this “ 3rd party “ that keeps going down as we cannot accept payments , something/someone needs to be accountable, why should we loose business because a “3rd part “ goes down , and we have no support or contingency plan in place , we don’t have ATM’s connected to our business so it’s a total pain for customers to try and go and get cash out !!!!, hence they leave and go somewhere where that can use there Eftpos card !!!

who is paying our compensation!!!!

Re: What the hell is going on?

davo1973 — Tue, 11 May 2021 22:43:40 GMT

One of my customers contacted me yesterday and said his bank account has 3 withdrawals for the same amount due to the fact we tried 3 times to get square to tap on Friday night.... These 3 withdrawals did not appear on my transactions list on the Friday night... Please help. What should I do ??

Re: What the hell is going on?

Jaynehurd — Tue, 11 May 2021 23:14:28 GMT

I had the same thing happen with 2 transactions and haven't received any reply to my email, answer on this post or any support..

I told my customer to call the bank and dispute it and I would continue to look into it.