Live status & reliability report

Square Payments status, outages & reliability

#8 of 13 payment processorsOperational

Square Payments is the card processing service from Block, Inc.'s Square, used for in-person, online and invoice payments.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated

Over the last 90 days Square Payments had 98.93% effective uptime across 12 status page incidents, resolving them in 12h 49m on average.

53.3/100Reliability scoreVisit Square Payments ↗

Is Square Payments down right now?

No, Square Payments is up and running.

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

Official Square Payments status page ↗

Uptime (90d)98.93%23h 5m weighted downtime
Incidents (90d)122.0 per 30 days
Major / partial outages0
Avg time to resolve12h 49m
Outages we detected0by our independent probes

90-day uptime

Aug 4, 2026: 98.06% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 5, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 7, 2026: 86.93% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 8, 2026 – Aug 14, 2026: no incidentsAug 15, 2026: 99.20% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 16, 2026 – Aug 17, 2026: no incidentsAug 18, 2026: 98.71% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 19, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidentsAug 24, 2026: 99.82% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 25, 2026 – Sep 9, 2026: no incidentsSep 10, 2026: 99.82% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 11, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026: no incidentsSep 14, 2026: 99.36% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 15, 2026: no incidentsSep 16, 2026: 99.64% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 17, 2026: no incidentsSep 18, 2026: 88.11% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 19, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026: no incidentsSep 21, 2026: 97.29% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 22, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 23, 2026: 85.00% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 24, 2026: 99.61% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 25, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026: no incidentsSep 27, 2026: 97.23% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 28, 2026 – Nov 1, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago98.931% average daily uptimeToday
  • No incidents
  • Degraded
  • Partial outage
  • Major outage
  • No data

Key facts about Square Payments's reliability

  • Since Apr 1, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, Square Payments published 22 incidents on its status page, 1 of them partial or major outages.
  • Its longest outage on record in that time was “Degraded Performance: Instant Transfers” on Apr 30, 2026, which lasted 17h 43m.
  • Square Payments reported 12 incidents in the last 90 days, up from 6 in the 90 days before.
  • Incidents most often began on a Monday (6 of 22, UTC).
  • Square Payments's 90-day uptime of 98.93% is below the average for payment processors (98.96%).
  • It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical payment processor: 12h 49m on average, against a median of 4h 34m.

Score breakdown

Uptime · 40% weight
36
98.932% effective uptime
Incident frequency · 20% weight
61
2.00 weighted incidents per 30 days
Time to resolve · 20% weight
34
12h 49m average
Transparency · 20% weight
100
No unreported outages detected

How the score is calculated →

Incidents per month

02468DecJan ’26FebMar1 partial outage incident2 degraded performance incidents3Apr1 degraded performance incident1May2 degraded performance incidents2Jun4 degraded performance incidents4Jul4 degraded performance incidents4Aug8 degraded performance incidents8SepOctNov
  • Major outage
  • Partial outage
  • Degraded
  • Informational

Response time

Daily average response time of Square Payments'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.

Square Payments incident history (last 90 days)

Source: Square Payments status page · last checked

Our independent monitoring

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

PageLast checkUptime (30d)Avg response
Payments product pageUp 100%2385 ms
Web Payments SDKUp 100%515 ms
Square API hostUp 98.30%347 ms

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Square Payments status FAQ

Is Square Payments down right now?

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

How reliable is Square Payments?

Square Payments has a reliability score of 53.3 out of 100, ranking #8 of 13 payment processors. Over the last 90 days it had 98.93% effective uptime.

How often does Square Payments have outages?

Square Payments published 12 incidents on its status page in the last 90 days (0 partial or major outages) and 22 in the past 12 months.

How long do Square Payments outages last?

Square Payments resolves incidents in 12h 49m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 17h 43m, on Apr 30, 2026.

Does Square Payments have a status page?

Yes. Square Payments's official status page is issquareup.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.