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Is Square down right now?

No, it’s up.

Square appears to be up and running normally.

checked responded in 196msHTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, Square has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~207 ms. According to Square's official status page, the most recent outage began 2026-08-04 20:54 UTC and lasted 7h 48m (severity: degraded). It was reported as "Dashboard Disruption".

Square provides in-person card readers, online checkout, and point-of-sale software for small businesses. Its offline mode blurs outages: card readers can keep accepting payments locally while the dashboard, reporting, and settlement are unreachable, so the impact is often on the merchant rather than the customer.

Response time (last 24h)
Last 24hpeak 809 ms
Incident history (last 90 days)
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7 of the incidents below were reported by Square on days we were not yet monitoring, so the timeline above leaves those days hatched rather than colouring them in.

DateWhat happenedDurationSeverity
Dashboard DisruptionReported by Square7h 48mDegraded
Delayed sales reporting data disruptionReported by Square1h 6mDegraded
Payments DisruptionReported by Square1d 8hDegraded
Payment DisruptionReported by Square3h 11mDegraded
Phone Support: Higher Than Expected Wait TimesReported by Square7d 1hDegraded
DoorDash DisruptionReported by Square1h 36mDegraded
Service DisruptionReported by Square29mDegraded
Uptime
100.00%
7 days
100.00%
30 days
100.00%
90 days
What to do if Square is down for just you
  • Try a different payment method, since incidents usually hit one card network or local rail rather than all of them.
  • Check whether the failure is at checkout or at settlement, because the two run on separate systems.
  • Look for elevated decline rates in your dashboard rather than outright errors, which is how most payment incidents first appear.
  • Do not retry a charge repeatedly, as duplicate attempts can succeed later and produce double billing.
Frequently asked questions
Is Square down right now?
Square appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-08-05 06:54 UTC (3 minutes ago).
When was Square's last outage?
According to Square's official status page, the most recent outage began 2026-08-04 20:54 UTC and lasted 7h 48m (severity: degraded). It was reported as "Dashboard Disruption".
What should I do if Square is down for me?
Try a different payment method, since incidents usually hit one card network or local rail rather than all of them. Check whether the failure is at checkout or at settlement, because the two run on separate systems. Look for elevated decline rates in your dashboard rather than outright errors, which is how most payment incidents first appear. Do not retry a charge repeatedly, as duplicate attempts can succeed later and produce double billing.
Square’s official status page

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