Is Square Down?

No — Square is up

Square's status page: Not available · we could not read it
FlareWarden checks: Website reachable · 8 of 8 regions · 204 ms

Right now

We could not read Square's status page, so the verdict rests on our checks. Check it yourself How we decide

FlareWarden checks

squareup.com from 8 regions · when you open this page (at most every 30 minutes), otherwise every 6 hours

Reachable

Regions up: 8 of 8
Response: 204 ms
Checked: 7 minutes ago

By region

Ashburn reachable, 233 ms
Chicago reachable, 234 ms
Frankfurt reachable, 120 ms
Johannesburg reachable, 375 ms
London reachable, 119 ms
Los Angeles reachable, 110 ms
São Paulo reachable, 274 ms
Tokyo reachable, 172 ms

Timing by region

Connection timing for each region that loaded the page
Region	TCP	TLS	TTFB
Ashburn	0 ms	7 ms	113 ms
Chicago	1 ms	6 ms	113 ms
Frankfurt	2 ms	11 ms	93 ms
Johannesburg	1 ms	16 ms	345 ms
London	3 ms	9 ms	84 ms
Los Angeles	2 ms	9 ms	86 ms
São Paulo	1 ms	10 ms	250 ms
Tokyo	1 ms	6 ms	148 ms

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History

Incidents Square reported

Since Oct 22, 16 days · from issquareup.com

Incidents: 4
Major or critical: 0
Median to resolve: 57m

Service Disruption
minor · Nov 5
lasted 4m
Service Disruption
minor · Nov 4
lasted 1h 10m
Service Disruption
minor · Nov 4
lasted 1h 25m
Service Disruption
minor · Oct 27
lasted 44m

Square website availability

Measured by FlareWarden · squareup.com

Last 7 days: 100%
Last 30 days: 100%
Last 90 days: 100%
Avg response, 30 days: 180ms

Last 30 days

91-day clean streak

Oct 8 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Measured by FlareWarden's own checks of squareup.com from multiple regions every 6 hours. Square's status page sets the verdict above when it reports trouble, but never these figures. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 90 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

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 up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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Related services

Square outage FAQ

Can I still take payments while Square is down?

Sometimes, using offline mode, which stores card payments and submits them when connectivity returns. The catch is that they are not authorised at the time of sale, so a card that has since been declined or has insufficient funds fails after the customer has left. Know your limit before depending on it.

Are payments already taken affected by an outage?

Payments authorised before the incident began settle normally. What is at risk is anything in flight when the outage started and anything accepted offline afterwards. Reconciling the day's takings against the dashboard once service returns is the reliable way to find transactions that did not complete.

Does a Square outage affect the hardware or just the app?

Both are reported separately. A terminal can be perfectly healthy while the payment network behind it is not, which is why the reader often looks online while transactions fail. issquareup.com reports hardware, point of sale and online payments as distinct components, so it identifies which layer is actually failing.

How long do Square outages usually last?

Most incidents are resolved within a couple of hours, though payment incidents attract attention quickly because they stop trade immediately. Subscribing to updates on issquareup.com is more reliable than refreshing the terminal, since the status page is updated as the incident progresses rather than only at resolution.

How we measure this

We request Square's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them. When you open this page and our last check is more than 30 minutes old, we check again on the spot; those checks update the verdict, never the availability figures.
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. Our checks only change their 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, and the verdict is the worse of what it reports and what our checks see: a major outage of Square itself is Down, trouble with one part of it is Degraded, problems at a few of a provider's many locations change nothing, and a security notice that marks nothing down is shown but changes nothing either. We check the feed every 3 minutes and read it again within minutes of any change to its incidents or components; a reading counts for 45 minutes after the last check that found nothing changed. The availability figures above are our measurement alone.

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