Is Square Down?
Reachable from all 8 checked regions
Average response time: 98ms
Last checked · checks run every 6 hours
Official status page: https://www.issquareup.com
Square uptime
Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 21 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.
30-day history
21-day clean streakReachability 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.
What Square does
Square provides payment processing along with point-of-sale hardware and software for small businesses. It handles card payments in person and online, plus invoicing and a seller dashboard. Many independent retailers and restaurants run every transaction through it, so an outage stops trade rather than merely inconveniencing it.
What an outage looks like
During a Square outage card payments are declined or hang at the terminal, the point-of-sale app shows a processing spinner that never resolves, and the seller dashboard is unreachable. Invoices and payment links can fail to load for customers. Staff often see the terminal appear online while transactions still fail to authorise.
What to do about it
Check issquareup.com, which reports point of sale, online payments, the dashboard and hardware separately. Square's offline mode can accept cards during an incident, but those payments are only authorised once connectivity returns and some will decline, so understand that exposure before relying on it. Payments authorised before the incident settle normally.
Is it down for everyone, or just you?
If this page says Square 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.
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Square outage FAQ
Can I still take payments while Square is down?
Are payments already taken affected by an outage?
Does a Square outage affect the hardware or just the app?
How long do Square outages usually last?
How we measure this
- We request Square'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
403or429means 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 Square publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.
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