Skip to main content
Affirm logo

Is Affirm Down?

No — Affirm is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 70ms

Last checked · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://status.affirm.com

Affirm uptime

100%
Last 7 days
100%
Last 30 days
100%
Last 90 days
68ms
Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 1 day measured so far. A dash means we have no measurement for that window.

30-day history

Jun 30: no data
Jul 1: no data
Jul 2: no data
Jul 3: no data
Jul 4: no data
Jul 5: no data
Jul 6: no data
Jul 7: no data
Jul 8: no data
Jul 9: no data
Jul 10: no data
Jul 11: no data
Jul 12: no data
Jul 13: no data
Jul 14: no data
Jul 15: no data
Jul 16: no data
Jul 17: no data
Jul 18: no data
Jul 19: no data
Jul 20: no data
Jul 21: no data
Jul 22: no data
Jul 23: no data
Jul 24: no data
Jul 25: no data
Jul 26: no data
Jul 27: no data
Jul 28: 100.00% uptime, 16 checks
Jul 29: no data
Jun 30 Today
No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

bom
168ms
DNS 61ms TCP 19ms TLS 20ms TTFB 125ms
cdg
33ms
DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 6ms TTFB 20ms
dfw
69ms
DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 24ms TTFB 48ms
ewr
48ms
DNS 0ms TCP 2ms TLS 10ms TTFB 28ms
fra
54ms
DNS 1ms TCP 1ms TLS 14ms TTFB 44ms
gru
182ms
DNS 1ms TCP 1ms TLS 8ms TTFB 38ms
iad
93ms
DNS 0ms TCP 2ms TLS 11ms TTFB 38ms
jnb
39ms
DNS 0ms TCP 0ms TLS 5ms TTFB 28ms
lax
45ms
DNS 0ms TCP 1ms TLS 11ms TTFB 28ms

What Affirm does

Affirm offers instalment financing at checkout, letting shoppers split a purchase into scheduled payments while the merchant is paid up front. It sits inside the checkout flow of retailers and marketplaces, so an outage does not degrade a store: it removes a payment method mid-purchase and loses the sale.

What an outage looks like

The Affirm option fails to appear at checkout, or appears and then errors when selected, leaving the basket intact but unpayable. Prequalification hangs without returning a decision. Existing customers cannot open the Affirm app to view or make payments. Merchant-side API calls for charges and transactions fail, so orders stall between authorisation and capture.

What to do about it

Check status.affirm.com, which reports Affirm Checkout, Prequalification, the Purchase, Transactions and Charges APIs, the mobile app and the platform integrations (Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Wix) separately, split by US, Canada and UK. Leave other payment methods enabled so checkout still completes. Avoid retrying a charge that may have authorised, since duplicate authorisations hold a customer's credit twice.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says Affirm is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from all 18 regions to find out where it breaks.

Test it yourself

Related services

Stripe
Stripe
Square
Square
Shopify
Shopify
QuickBooks Online
QuickBooks Online

Affirm outage FAQ

Is Affirm down or was I declined?
A decline returns a decision explaining that financing was not approved, which is a normal outcome rather than an error. An outage produces a spinner that never resolves or a generic failure. Check status.affirm.com and specifically the Prequalification component. If Affirm is healthy, the answer came from underwriting and retrying immediately will not change it.
Will my scheduled payments still be taken during an outage?
Payment schedules are held by Affirm and are not cancelled by an availability incident, so instalments are processed on their normal dates. What an outage blocks is your ability to view the schedule or make an early payment through the app. If a due date falls inside a long incident, contacting Affirm afterwards is the sensible route.
Why has Affirm disappeared from a store's checkout?
Merchants integrate Affirm through platforms such as Shopify, BigCommerce, WooCommerce and Wix, each reported as its own component. When the integration fails, the option is typically hidden rather than shown broken, so the checkout simply offers fewer methods. That is deliberate: a hidden option loses a sale, while a broken one loses the whole basket.
Should merchants retry a failed Affirm charge?
Not blindly. The Charges and Transactions APIs are separate components, and a call that timed out may still have authorised. Retrying can place a second hold against the customer's approved amount, which is visible to them and hard to explain. Query the transaction status once the API recovers, then act on what actually exists.
Does an Affirm outage affect my credit or existing loans?
No. An availability incident does not change loan terms, balances or reporting. Loans already originated continue on their schedule and nothing about the outage is recorded against you. The effect is limited to not being able to reach the service, whether that is applying at checkout or opening the app to check a balance.

How we measure this

  • We request Affirm's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — 8 of them answered the most recent check.
  • A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
  • A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
  • Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
  • Where Affirm publishes an official status feed we read it too, and let it override us in both directions.

Get alerted when Affirm goes down

This page refreshes every 6 hours. Your own monitors run as often as every 30 seconds, from the same 18 regions, and tell you the moment something breaks.

Start Free Monitoring
Free plan available No credit card required