# Degradation in Affirm Checkout

- Provider: [Affirm](https://down.guide/affirm)
- Level: confirmed
- Impact: Major outage
- lasted 6m
- started 2026-01-07 07:45 UTC
- US - Shopify Payments App, CA - Shopify Payments App, UK - Shop Pay Installments +1
- us
- id: DWN-2d287ab924
- Official page: https://stspg.io/678nt4plj2t0

## Updates from Affirm
### 2026-01-07 07:45 UTC: identified
We've identified the source of the degradation in Affirm Checkout and we are working on a mitigation

### 2026-01-07 07:49 UTC: monitoring
We've deployed a mitigation, throughput is recovering and are actively monitoring.

### 2026-01-07 07:51 UTC: resolved
This incident has been resolved.

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