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    50 recorded Emerchantpay incidents since September 2017, with official updates, affected components, duration and resolution information.

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    Emerchantpay - Genesis Gateway - Temporary service disruption

    Started August 27, 2026 at 1:57 AM UTC · 1m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. August 27, 2026 at 1:57 AM UTCinvestigating

      Dear partner, Please be advised that a temporary external network issue was identified around 00:23 UTC with one of our card processors. Our detailed analysis has shown abnormal behaviour of one of our external providers, which was affecting partially the payment processing. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards, Emerchantpay Tech Support team

    2. August 27, 2026 at 1:58 AM UTCresolved

      Dear customer, We can confirm that as of 00:50 UTC, the external issue that was affecting partially the payment processing, is now resolved. After thorough investigation, we identified that the slow response times were caused by intermittent timeouts from our external card processor. We are actively following up with them to receive the root cause for the slow response times. All affected services are now fully operational. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Should you have any questions or require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our Tech Support team at [email protected]. Kind Regards, Emerchantpay Tech Support team

    Temporary issues in 3DS authentications with Mastercard only

    Started July 15, 2026 at 8:28 AM UTC · 1h 5m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. July 15, 2026 at 8:28 AM UTCinvestigating

      Dear customer, Note we have identified an issue related to 3DS authentications with Mastercard resulting into an unknown reason related to Mastercard card brand only. As a result, there is increased refusal rate for Mastercard transactions that require 3DS authentication. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Should you have any questions or require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our Tech Support team at [email protected]

    2. July 15, 2026 at 8:30 AM UTCidentified

      Mastercard has acknowledged an ongoing issue on their end affecting 3D Secure authentications, first identified at 08:59 CEST. An increased refusal rate for Mastercard transactions that require 3D Secure authentication may still be experience. Mastercard is working to resolve the issue.

    3. July 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM UTCresolved

      We can confirm that as of 08:09 UTC, the issue that was affecting Mastercard 3DS authentications has been resolved. All affected services are now fully operational. If you experience any problems during payment processing, please don't hesitate to contact our Tech Support team. We'll continue to monitor our systems closely and keep you informed as needed.

    emerchantpay - Temporary 3DS network issue 24/03/2025

    Started March 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM UTC · 19h 43m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. March 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Valued Partner, We have identified a partial disruption affecting 3DSv2 authentication of transactions processing with Mastercard and VISA. We are in close communication with the 3DS provider to resolve the problem as soon as possible and keep monitoring the transactions. Please accept our apologies for the caused inconvenience. Kind regards, Technical Support Team

    2. March 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    emerchantpay - ECP acquirer - Temporary issues in transaction processing with Mastercard only 05/11/2024

    Started November 5, 2024 at 3:05 PM UTC · 1h 30m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. November 5, 2024 at 3:05 PM UTCidentified

      Dear customer, Note we have identified an issue related to transaction declines with an unknown reason related to Mastercard card brand only with the ECP acquirer. The issue seems to affect Mastercard transactions only partially, as most are passing successfully. Please rest assured that we have escalated to the ECP acquirer already and are working together with the highest priority on the matter to resolve it as soon as possible. We appreciate your understanding, and please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Should you have any questions or require further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact our Tech Support team at [email protected]

    2. November 5, 2024 at 4:35 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Customer, A hotfix resolving the Mastercard issue has been deployed successfully by the ECP acquirer, and thus the issue has been fully rectified. If you experience any problems during payment processing, please don’t hesitate to contact our Tech Support team. We’ll continue to monitor our systems closely and keep you informed as needed.

    emerchantpay - Genesis - External Provider Partial Outage - 12/09/2024

    Started September 12, 2024 at 6:04 AM UTC · 8h 55m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. September 12, 2024 at 6:04 AM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Valued Partner, Please be informed that we are currently experiencing issues with one of our external providers ECP and the transaction processing through this acquirer was temporary disabled. There is no impact on transactions submitted through other acquirers. We will update the status page immediately once the processing thru the ECP acquirer is restored and all is back to normal. For more information, please contact us at [email protected] Thank you for your patience on the matter. Kind Regards, Tech-Support Team

    2. September 12, 2024 at 12:29 PM UTCmonitoring

      Dear Valued Partner, Please be informed that the recent disruption in payment processing services with the ECP acquirer has been resolved, and normal transaction processing has resumed. We are continuing to actively monitor the situation. We will update the status page accordingly once we are assured that the issue is resolved permanently at the upstream provider. For more information, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you for your patience on the matter. Kind Regards, Tech Support Team

    3. September 12, 2024 at 2:59 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Temporary issue with transaction processing 15/12/2023

    Started December 15, 2023 at 3:44 AM UTC · 5h 11m

    OutageCritical incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - admin console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - merchant console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. December 15, 2023 at 3:44 AM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that we're experiencing an issue affecting the processing of a significant portion of our transactions. Our teams are already working on resolving the problem and we will provide timely updates when more information becomes available. If you would like to receive more information, please contact us through our email address: [email protected] Thank you for your patience and understanding on this matter. Kind regards, eMerchantpay Technical Support Team

    2. December 15, 2023 at 8:55 AM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Temporary issue with transaction processing with an acquirer 19/09/2023

    Started September 19, 2023 at 11:31 AM UTC · 4h 33m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. September 19, 2023 at 11:31 AM UTCidentified

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that we are experiencing an issue affecting the processing for one of our acquirers. Our teams are already working on resolving the problems caused by the external processor. Once we have more information, an additional update will be sent here. Please, accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience. Kind regards, emerchantpay Technical Support Team

    2. September 19, 2023 at 4:03 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Temporary issue with transaction processing with an acquirer 03/08/2023

    Started August 3, 2023 at 2:59 PM UTC · 3h 46m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. August 3, 2023 at 2:59 PM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that we are experiencing an issue affecting the processing for one of our acquirers. Our teams are already working on resolving the problem and escalated the connection issues to the external provider. Once we have more information, an additional update will be sent here. Please, accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience. Kind regards, emerchantpay Technical Support Team

    2. August 3, 2023 at 4:59 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are still investigating the issue

    3. August 3, 2023 at 6:45 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Temporary issue with 3DSecure transactions - 12/06/2023

    Started June 12, 2023 at 2:34 PM UTC · 2h 16m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. June 12, 2023 at 2:34 PM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Partner, Please kindly be informed that we are currently experiencing intermittent issues affecting our 3D-Secure transactions with Mastercard only. We have identified the problem - it is related to Mastercard causing part of the transaction 3DS authentication to fail with "The connection to the Directory Server has failed". We have contacted our MPI provider and we are working together to resolve it as soon as possible in sync with Mastercard. Once we have more information, an additional update will be sent here. Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience. Kind regards, Technical Support Team

    2. June 12, 2023 at 4:50 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that the issue affecting the processing of 3D-Secure transactions with Mastercard has been resolved and processing returned back to normal. Incident Start Date: 2023-06-12 11:04 UTC Incident End Date: 2023-06-12 14:42 UTC In case you need further information or have noticed any issues, please feel free to reach us at [email protected] Kind Regards, Technical Support Team

    emerchantpay - Temporary network degradation in transaction processing 05/05/2023

    Started May 5, 2023 at 11:17 AM UTC · 2h 23m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - admin console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - merchant console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. May 5, 2023 at 11:17 AM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that we are experiencing an issue affecting the processing of а significant portion of our transactions Our teams are already working on resolving the problem and we will provide timely updates when more information becomes available. If you would like to receive more information, please contact us through our email address [email protected] Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards, emerchantpay Technical Support Team

    2. May 5, 2023 at 1:39 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    emerchantpay - Temporary service disruption in 2nd step of 3DSv2 authentication with MasterCard and VISA

    Started March 21, 2023 at 1:53 PM UTC · 7h 21m

    IssuesMinor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. March 21, 2023 at 1:53 PM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Valued Partner, We have identified a partial disruption affecting 3DSv2 authentication of transactions processing with Mastercard and VISA. We are in close communication with the 3DS provider to resolve the problem as soon as possible and keep monitoring the transactions. Please accept our apologies for the caused inconvenience. Kind regards, Technical Support Team

    2. March 21, 2023 at 2:07 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are continuing to investigate this issue.

    3. March 21, 2023 at 9:15 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Valued Partner, Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused. We have reviewed the issue with our MPI provider and can confirm that it is no longer present. The affected are 3DS transactions, both Visa and Mastercard. It's related to MPI provider issues which have been resolved. The issue was present from 14:07 UTC to 20:00 UTC on Mar 21 2023. In case you need further information or have noticed any issues, please feel free to reach us at [email protected] Kind Regards, Technical Support Team

    emerchantpay - Temporary service disruption in 2nd step of 3DSv2 authentication with MasterCard and VISA

    Started March 20, 2023 at 8:32 PM UTC · 1h 3m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)emerchantpay.comGenesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. March 20, 2023 at 8:32 PM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Valued Partner, We have identified a partial disruption affecting 3DSv2 transactions authentication with MasterCard and VISA. We are in close communication with the 3DS provider to resolve the problem as soon as possible and keep monitoring the transactions. Please accept our apologies for the caused inconvenience. Kind regards, Technical Support Team

    2. March 20, 2023 at 10:37 PM UTCinvestigating

      We are continuing to investigate this issue.

    3. March 20, 2023 at 10:44 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Valued Partner, Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused. We have reviewed the issue with our MPI provider and can confirm that it is no longer present. The affected are 3DS transactions, both Visa and Mastercard. It's related to MPI provider issues which have been resolved. The issue was present from 19:45 to 21:35 UTC on Mar 20 2023. In case you need further information or have noticed any issues, please feel free to reach us at [email protected] Kind Regards, Technical Support Team

    emerchantpay - Temporary issue with Visa payment transaction processing

    Started February 21, 2023 at 4:37 PM UTC · 1h 1m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. February 21, 2023 at 4:37 PM UTCidentified

      Dear Partner, We have identified an issue with one of our upstream providers that is partially affecting the processing of Visa OCT transactions. The provider is actively working on a solution to restore the payment processing back to operational. We will provide timely updates as soon as the information becomes available. Regards emerchantpay Technical Support Team

    2. February 21, 2023 at 5:38 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that the issue affecting the processing of Visa OCT transactions has been resolved and the processing returned back to normal. Incident Start Date: 2023-02-21 10:09 UTC Incident End Date: 2023-02-21 16:53 UTC If you still notice anything unusual, please contact us at [email protected]. Regards emerchantpay Technical Support Team

    emerchantpay - Temporary issues in transaction processing 03/01/2023

    Started January 4, 2023 at 9:45 PM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - admin console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - merchant console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. January 4, 2023 at 9:45 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that we have experienced temporary network disruption in one of our data centers partially affecting our transaction processing. The issue has been resolved and the services were fully restored and operational. Incident Start Date: Jan 3rd 2023 23:51 UTC Incident End Date: Jan 4th 2023 03:03 UTC If you still observed any negative impact on transaction processing, please contact us through our email address [email protected]. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards,

    Mastercard Intermittent Service Disruption - 30-11-2022

    Started December 1, 2022 at 3:11 PM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - merchant console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. December 1, 2022 at 3:11 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Valued Partner, We have been informed by Mastercard of an intermittent service disruption which has been identified and resolved on their end. The disruption occurred yesterday, the 30th of November 2022. The customers may have experienced failures for 3DS transactions. Start: 30 November 2022, 08:24 UTC End: 30 November 2022, 12:17 UTC Mastercard Reference Number: INC000000273760 We remain at your disposal should you have any questions. Kind Regards, emerchantpay Tech-Support Team

    emerchantpay - Temporary issues in transaction processing 04/03/2022

    Started March 4, 2022 at 8:38 AM UTC · 43m

    OutageCritical incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - admin console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - merchant console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. March 4, 2022 at 8:38 AM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that we are experiencing an issue affecting the processing of all our transactions. Our teams are already working on resolving the problem and we will provide timely updates when more information becomes available. Additionally, we have escalated the issue with highest priority possible. If you would like to receive more information, please contact us through our email address [email protected] Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards, emerchantpay Technical Support Team

    2. March 4, 2022 at 9:21 AM UTCresolved

      Dear Partner, Please kindly note that the temporary issue from today was resolved on our end. We are currently monitoring the environment and the transaction processing and everything is back to normal. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience caused. Kind Regards, Tech-Support team.

    Temporary issues in transaction processing 22/21/2021

    Started December 22, 2021 at 10:25 PM UTC · 35m

    OutageMajor incident
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - admin console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - merchant console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. December 22, 2021 at 10:25 PM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that we are experiencing an issue affecting the processing of a small percentage of our transactions. Our teams are already working on resolving the problem and we will provide timely updates when more information becomes available. If you would like to receive more information, please contact us through our email address [email protected] Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards, Technical Support Team

    2. December 22, 2021 at 11:00 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that the temporary issue partially affecting our transaction processing has been resolved and service is fully restored. Incident Start Date: 11:30 PM GMT+2 Incident End Date: 12:20 AM GMT+2 We have experienced a temporary network issue in one of our data centers. Please kindly note that further detailed investigation is in progress. We will update you once we have more details. If you still observed any negative impact on transaction processing, please contact us through our email address [email protected] Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards, emerchantpay Technical Support Team

    Temporary service disruption with MasterCard

    Started November 9, 2021 at 11:05 PM UTC · 17h 39m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. November 9, 2021 at 11:05 PM UTCidentified

      Please be advised that we have identified temporary issues with Mastercard transaction processing. This is confirmed to be 100% MasterCard related, and not caused by our gateway. This issue causes Mastercard transactions to fail with errors 07-Honour with ID and 08-Time-Out. We were advised by our provider that MasterCard are performing maintenance at the moment and are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Kind regards, Technical Support Team

    2. November 10, 2021 at 4:44 PM UTCresolved

      Dear Valued Partner, The temporary processing disruption on November 09, 2021 from 21:56 UTC to 23:00 UTC partially affecting MasterCard authorizations, has already been resolved by MasterCard. Everything seems stable now, but we are still expecting the final analysis of the root cause from our provider. We shall keep monitoring the transactions in order to make sure that it will not appear again. Please, accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused! Kind regards, Technical Support Team

    emerchantpay - Temporary service disruption in 2nd step of 3DSv2 authentication with MasterCard

    Started October 15, 2021 at 12:14 PM UTC · 0m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. October 15, 2021 at 12:14 PM UTCidentified

      Dear Valued Partner, We have identified a partial disruption, from Oct 15, 2021, 06:29 UTC to Oct 15, 2021, 11:00 UTC affecting 3DSv2 transactions' authentication with MasterCard. It has been classified as a fully MasterCard Directory Server issue. MasterCard has already resolved the issue and now everything seems stable. We shall keep monitoring the transactions in order to make sure that it will not appear again. Please accept our apologies for the caused inconvenience. Kind regards, Technical Support Team

    2. October 15, 2021 at 12:14 PM UTCresolved

      This incident has been resolved.

    Emerchantpay - Temporary network issue 25/08/2021

    Started August 25, 2021 at 8:26 AM UTC · 53m

    Pending
    Affected components
    Genesis - web payment form (PRODUCTION)Genesis - admin console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - merchant console (PRODUCTION)Genesis - API (PRODUCTION)
    1. August 25, 2021 at 8:26 AM UTCinvestigating

      Dear Partner, Please kindly note that we are experiencing network issues between our data centers which cause partial service disruption with our gateway. The root cause is currently being investigated. We will keep you updated on an ongoing basis, and inform you once the issue is resolved. If you need further assistance or information, do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]. Kind Regards, Emerchantpay Technical Support Team

    2. August 25, 2021 at 9:19 AM UTCresolved

      Dear Partner, Please be advised that the temporary network issue we experienced has been fully resolved right after the mitigation we performed. Our detailed analysis has shown abnormal behavior of a network component, which despite being highly available, was not operating as it was supposed to and created temporary hiccups. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Kind regards, Emerchantpay Tech Support team