Stripe: Elevated API errors for Multiple Payment Methods
Timeline of updates
- resolved
From 6:45 UTC to 9:41 UTC, Affirm, Klarna, and Amazon Pay had brief periods of unavailability due to a widespread outage external to Stripe. As a result, users experienced elevated '500' errors when using these payment methods. These issues appear to be resolved, and the impacted payment methods are now enabled on all surfaces.
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Status incident (vendor impact label: major) posted by Stripe, started 2025-10-20 08:08 UTC, resolved after 1.7 h, 1 update(s).
- Title
- Elevated API errors for Multiple Payment Methods
- Vendor
- Stripe
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/stripe/incidents/549y7qt6rxyn
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