Live status & reliability report
Square Payroll status, outages & reliability
Square Payroll is the payroll service from Block, Inc.'s Square for businesses paying employees and contractors.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · score recalculated
Over the last 90 days Square Payroll had 98.93% effective uptime across 12 status page incidents, resolving them in 12h 49m on average.
Is Square Payroll down right now?
No, Square Payroll is up and running.
- Square Payroll's status page reports all systems operational. Checked .
- All 3 Square Payroll pages we check are responding. Checked .
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90-day uptime
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Key facts about Square Payroll's reliability
- Since Apr 1, 2026, the earliest date its published history covers, Square Payroll 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 Payroll 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 Payroll's 90-day uptime of 98.93% is below the average for payroll & HR platforms (99.68%).
- It resolves incidents more slowly than the typical payroll & HR platform: 12h 49m on average, against a median of 1h 35m.
Score breakdown
Incidents per month
- Major outage
- Partial outage
- Degraded
- Informational
Response time
Daily average response time of Square 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).
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Square Payroll incident history (last 90 days)
- Degraded performanceSep 27, 2026 · resolved in 4h 25m
- Degraded performanceSep 24, 2026 · resolved in 12m
- Degraded performanceSep 21, 2026 · resolved in 2d 4h
- Degraded performanceSep 18, 2026 · resolved in 3h 54m
- Degraded performanceSep 18, 2026 · resolved in 15h 7m
- Degraded performanceSep 16, 2026 · resolved in 34m
- Degraded performanceSep 14, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
- Degraded performanceSep 10, 2026 · resolved in 17m
- Degraded performanceAug 24, 2026 · resolved in 17m
- Degraded performanceAug 18, 2026 · resolved in 2h 3m
- Degraded performanceAug 15, 2026 · resolved in 1h 17m
- Degraded performanceAug 4, 2026 · resolved in 6d 4h
Source: Square Payroll status page · last checked · Subscribe via RSS
Our independent monitoring
We check these public Square Payroll pages every 5 minutes. An outage is recorded after two consecutive failed checks.
| Page | Last check | Uptime (30d) | Avg response |
|---|---|---|---|
| Payroll product page | Up | 100% | 853 ms |
| Square developer portal | Up | 100% | 1129 ms |
| Square API host | Up | 100% | 248 ms |
How Square Payroll compares
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Square Payroll status FAQ
Is Square Payroll down right now?
No, Square Payroll is up and running. Square Payroll's status page currently reports all systems operational, and all 3 of the Square Payroll pages we check every five minutes are responding. This page updates automatically when that changes.
How reliable is Square Payroll?
Square Payroll has a reliability score of 53.3 out of 100, ranking #9 of 9 payroll & HR platforms. Over the last 90 days it had 98.93% effective uptime.
How often does Square Payroll have outages?
Square Payroll 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 Payroll outages last?
Square Payroll resolves incidents in 12h 49m on average. Its longest outage in the past year lasted 17h 43m, on Apr 30, 2026.
Does Square Payroll have a status page?
Yes. Square Payroll's official status page is issquareup.com. We read it every five minutes and keep its full incident history.