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Shopify: Major incident: Payment processing failures for merchants using PayPal Express

Summary

Shopify reported a major Checkout incident: PayPal Express payments failed starting at 2019-10-23 13:48 UTC; other PayPal checkout methods were expected to be unaffected. Payments were processing correctly by 13:57 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2019-10-23 14:09 UTC, with a computed duration of 20 min.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 100%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io (opens in new tab)

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Payment processing failures for merchants using PayPal Express
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2019-10-23 13:48 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2019-10-23 14:09 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: Checkout
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: Payment processing is failing for checkouts using PayPal Express. Other PayPal checkout methods should be unaffected.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#8
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After: PayPal Express payments are now being processed correctly, we will be monitoring
AddedUpdateresolved#9
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After: This incident has been resolved.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Payment processing failures for merchants using PayPal Express (this change)
Shopify reported a major Checkout incident: PayPal Express payments failed starting at 2019-10-23 13:48 UTC; other PayPal checkout methods were expected to be unaffected. Payments were processing correctly by 13:57 UTC, and the incident was resolved at 2019-10-23 14:09 UTC, with a computed duration of 20 min.
Major incident

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