Is Afterpay down?
Updated Oct 08, 2026 13:40 UTC. StatusBird re-checks Afterpay's status page every 2 minutes.
- Current state
- Operational
- Changed
- Sep 23, 2026 01:05 UTC
- Held for
- 15 days 12 hours
Afterpay is currently operational as of Oct 08, 2026 13:40 UTC, with no outage reported on its official status page. StatusBird reads Afterpay's status page every 2 minutes and, on the Pro plan, alerts subscribers by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord within that cycle; the free email alert on this page covers major and critical outages with no account.
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Afterpay uptime and incident history
30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.
Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 0 major or critical Afterpay incidents totalling 0 minutes of downtime, for 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade, across 64,652 independent checks. Full history: Afterpay reliability report.
Afterpay's 90-day uptime of 100.00% is above the Payments category average of 99.88% across the 11 services StatusBird monitors in that category.
Afterpay risk in the next 24 hours
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Afterpay degradation in the next 24 hours at 6% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 1% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Afterpay has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
- 12 degraded-or-worse episodes in the last 180 days
- 2 major outages in the last 180 days
Scored Oct 08, 2026 13:36 UTC, and rescored every 10 minutes. Method: how StatusBird measures and scores.
How do I get notified when Afterpay has an outage?
Three options, from free to full coverage. Plan details are as published on StatusBird's pricing page and status.afterpay.com as of October 08, 2026.
- Free email alert on this page. The form above emails you when Afterpay enters a major or critical outage and again when it recovers. No account, no card.
- A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, with quiet hours and per-service thresholds; Business is $49/month and Agency $99/month. Create a free account.
- Afterpay's own status page. status.afterpay.com offers the subscription options on status.afterpay.com, where available. It is the official record and worth subscribing to alongside any monitor; it updates when Afterpay confirms an incident.
Full guide: Best downtime alert services for online store owners (2026).
About Afterpay
Popular buy now, pay later option especially for fashion and lifestyle brands. Afterpay downtime eliminates a preferred payment method for millions of shoppers.
StatusBird monitors Afterpay every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When an outage or degradation is detected, StatusBird sends instant alerts so you can act before your customers notice. The 30-day uptime percentage and incident history above reflect live data from our monitoring network.
Afterpay last five incidents
Every non-operational episode StatusBird measured in the last 90 days, newest first, labelled by the worst status reached. The availability figures above count major and critical outages only.
| Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Worst status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 23, 2026 00:47 | Sep 23, 2026 01:05 | 18 minutes | degraded |
| Sep 03, 2026 00:29 | Sep 03, 2026 01:57 | 1 hour 28 minutes | degraded |
| Aug 15, 2026 04:46 | Aug 15, 2026 05:56 | 1 hour 10 minutes | degraded |
| Aug 13, 2026 12:10 | Aug 13, 2026 12:26 | 16 minutes | degraded |
| Jul 20, 2026 22:46 | Jul 20, 2026 23:32 | 46 minutes | degraded |
6 episodes in total over the last 90 days, 0 of them major or critical.
What to do when Afterpay is down
When Afterpay goes down, do three things first: confirm the outage is on their side, protect whatever the outage is breaking in your store, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. This playbook walks through each step for Afterpay specifically.
How do I confirm Afterpay is actually down?
Check two independent sources before changing anything in your store. First, StatusBird's live Afterpay status page, which is based on independent checks every 2 minutes. Second, Afterpay's own status page at status.afterpay.com. If the official page still shows green, do not assume you are wrong: vendors often acknowledge incidents well after they start. If both look clean, the problem is more likely your store's configuration or a specific integration.
What does a Afterpay outage look like?
- Afterpay checkout redirect fails, errors, or loops back to your cart
- Customers complain they cannot log in to Afterpay to approve a purchase
- Installment price badges disappear from product pages
- Conversion dips on orders in the typical Afterpay price range while card orders hold steady
- Afterpay merchant portal unreachable or refunds not processing
What breaks in your store
During an Afterpay outage, shoppers who pick Afterpay at checkout cannot complete the redirect and approval flow, so those orders fail or hang. The rest of your checkout is unaffected, but you lose the segment of buyers who rely on installments, and abandoned carts rise among them. Afterpay on-site messaging widgets may stop rendering on product and cart pages, and merchant-side operations like refunds through Afterpay are delayed until service returns.
For context, Afterpay has had no major incidents in the last 90 days of StatusBird's independent monitoring (100.0% availability), so a real outage is unusual. That makes it easy to mistake one for a problem on your end, which is why confirming first matters.
What to do during the outage
- Check status.afterpay.com to verify the problem is on Afterpay's side.
- Post a short checkout notice that installment payments are temporarily down and cards still work.
- Suggest an alternative BNPL provider you offer, such as Klarna or Affirm, to installment shoppers.
- Collect emails from customers who want to pay with Afterpay so you can notify them when it is back.
- Queue Afterpay refunds and process them after recovery instead of retrying during the outage.
These steps follow the same logic Google codifies in its Site Reliability Engineering chapter on managing incidents: establish what is actually happening, contain the damage, and communicate clearly while the incident is still running.
Frequently asked questions
Does an Afterpay outage break my whole checkout?
No. Afterpay is one payment option among several, so card, wallet, and PayPal payments continue working. Only customers who select Afterpay will see failures, though on-site Afterpay widgets may also stop loading.
Will I still get paid for Afterpay orders placed just before the outage?
Yes. Orders where the Afterpay approval completed and your store received order confirmation are funded by Afterpay as normal. Payouts or settlement reporting may run late during the incident, so give reconciliation a day or two after recovery.
After the outage
Once Afterpay recovers, verify the affected workflows end to end rather than trusting the status page. Note the start and end times while they are fresh: if you are on a paid Afterpay plan with an SLA, documented downtime is what a service credit claim is built on. See how to claim SLA credits for the process.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks Afterpay's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the Afterpay reliability page and current status on the Afterpay status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
This playbook was published separately until September 2026. It now lives here, alongside the live Afterpay status it applies to.
Afterpay status FAQ
Is Afterpay down right now?
No. Afterpay is operational in StatusBird's independent monitoring. That state began Sep 23, 2026 at 01:05 UTC and has lasted 15 days 12 hours. Last checked Oct 08, 2026 at 13:40 UTC.
How often does Afterpay go down?
StatusBird recorded zero major or critical Afterpay incidents in the last 90 days, at 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade. Minor degradation is excluded from that figure.
How long do Afterpay outages usually last?
StatusBird measured no major or critical Afterpay outages in the last 90 days. Counting every non-operational episode, including degraded performance, the average length was 42 minutes.
What is the chance Afterpay has a problem in the next 24 hours?
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Afterpay degradation in the next 24 hours at 6% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 1% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Afterpay has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
What should I do when Afterpay goes down?
Confirm the outage is on Afterpay's side rather than in your store, protect whatever the outage is breaking, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. The full step-by-step playbook for a Afterpay outage is on this page, under 'What to do when Afterpay is down'.
How do I get notified when Afterpay goes down?
Use the free email alert form on this page, which needs no account and covers major and critical outages. Or open a StatusBird account: the free plan monitors 1 service with a next-day digest, and Pro at $29 a month checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, or subscribe to Afterpay's own status page at status.afterpay.com.
What should I do when Afterpay goes down? The full playbook is on this page.
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"Every figure we publish comes from the same 2-minute checks that trigger our customers' alerts. We publish the data exactly as we measured it, and anyone is free to cite it."
Sydney Murphy, founder of StatusBird
Cite this data: StatusBird monitoring data, https://statusbird.io/status/afterpay, accessed October 08, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.
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