Degraded Performance: Instant Transfers

What to do

• Check whether you use Square in us. Check your stack

  Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.

• Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 17h 43m it lasted.

  Anything that failed between 2026-04-30 22:53 UTC and 2026-05-01 16:36 UTC may need a replay.

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Updates from Square 2

1. identifiedApr 30, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

   Due to a third-party disruption with one of our banking partners, we are experiencing an increase in failures for some Instant Transfers to debit cards. While recovery has begun, Sellers experiencing issues with Instant Transfers can try linking a VISA debit card from a different banking institution and retry the transfer. We will continue to provide updates from our partner as we receive them. Thank you for your patience.

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2. resolvedMay 1, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

   The disruption that impacted the ability to initiate Instant Transfers to debit cards is now resolved. We understand how important it is for all of our services to be running for your business, and our Engineering team is actively discussing with our banking partners how to prevent future disruptions like this one. Thank you for your patience with us as we worked to resolve this issue.

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Corrections

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