Live status & reliability report

QuickBooks Payroll status, outages & reliability

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QuickBooks Payroll is Intuit's payroll service, sold as an add-on to QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days QuickBooks Payroll had 99.94% effective uptime across 3 status page incidents (2 partial or major outages), resolving them in 1h 14m on average.

92.4/100Reliability scoreVisit QuickBooks Payroll ↗

Is QuickBooks Payroll down right now?

No, QuickBooks Payroll is up and running.

  • QuickBooks Payroll's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
  • All 3 QuickBooks Payroll pages we check are responding. Checked .

Official QuickBooks Payroll status page ↗

Uptime (90d)99.94%1h 14m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)30.8 per 30 days
Major / partial outages2
Avg time to resolve1h 14m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026 – Aug 18, 2026: no incidentsAug 19, 2026: 95.01% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 20, 2026 – Sep 1, 2026: no incidentsSep 2, 2026: 99.87% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 3, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago99.943% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about QuickBooks Payroll's reliability

  • Over the past 12 months, QuickBooks Payroll published 9 incidents on its status page, 3 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Unable to use multiple features in QuickBooksOnline” on Feb 24, 2026, which lasted 5h 1m.
  • The part of QuickBooks Payroll most often affected was United States (9 of 9 incidents).
  • QuickBooks Payroll reported 3 incidents in the last 90 days, up from 2 in the 90 days before.
  • Incidents most often began on a Wednesday (4 of 9, UTC).
  • QuickBooks Payroll's 90-day uptime of 99.94% is above the average for payroll & HR platforms (99.68%).
  • It resolves incidents faster than the typical payroll & HR platform: 1h 14m on average, against a median of 1h 35m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
94
99.943% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
83
0.75 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
90
1h 14m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

012341 informational incident1Dec1 informational incident1Jan ’261 partial outage incident1FebMarApr1 degraded performance incident1May1 degraded performance incident1JunJul1 partial outage incident1Aug1 partial outage incident1 informational incident2SepOctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of QuickBooks Payroll's public pages, measured by our probes.

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

Score trend

Daily reliability score (rolling 90-day window).

Not enough data yet — this chart fills in as our monitoring runs.

QuickBooks Payroll incident history (last 90 days)

Source: QuickBooks Payroll status page · last checked

Our independent monitoring

We check these public QuickBooks Payroll pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
QuickBooks Online loginUp 100%1216 ms
Intuit Accounts sign-inUp 100%311 ms
Intuit developer portalUp 100%2093 ms

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QuickBooks Payroll status FAQ

Is QuickBooks Payroll down right now?

No, QuickBooks Payroll is up and running. QuickBooks Payroll's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the QuickBooks Payroll pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.

How reliable is QuickBooks Payroll?

QuickBooks Payroll has a reliability score of 92.4 out of 100, ranking #1 of 9 payroll & HR platforms. Over the last 90 days it had 99.94% effective uptime.

How often does QuickBooks Payroll have outages?

QuickBooks Payroll published 3 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (2 partial or major outages) and 9 in the past 12 months.

How long do QuickBooks Payroll outages last?

QuickBooks Payroll resolves incidents in 1h 14m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 5h 1m, on Feb 24, 2026.

Does QuickBooks Payroll have a status page?

Yes. QuickBooks Payroll's official status page is status.quickbooks.intuit.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.