Live status
History

Elevated card authorization errors

Incident Report for Stripe

Resolved

Between September 17th and September 29th, we saw elevated card authorization errors related to an issuing bank in France which impacted some Visa transactions. Visa has confirmed resolution, card authorization errors have subsided, and there are no current disruptions to Visa transactions. Throughout this period, Stripe's systems remained healthy.
Posted Sep 29, 2025 - 21:23 UTC

Update

We are still seeing elevated card authorization errors related to an issuing bank in France which is impacting some Visa transactions. There are still no issues with Stripe systems at this time. We're continuing to monitor and will post an update as soon as the issue is resolved.
Posted Sep 26, 2025 - 19:05 UTC

Update

We continue to see elevated card authorization errors related to an issuing bank in France. We are in communication with our partners for further updates.
Posted Sep 26, 2025 - 06:37 UTC

Identified

We’re continuing to see elevated card authorization errors related to an issuing bank in France. We’ve identified the cause, and are in communication with our partners for further updates.
Posted Sep 25, 2025 - 23:32 UTC

Investigating

Stripe is seeing elevated card authorization errors related to an issuing bank in France which is impacting some VISA transactions. This issue is external to Stripe.
Posted Sep 25, 2025 - 16:54 UTC
This incident affected: Acquirers and payment methods.