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Stripe incident

Elevated Bancontact errors

Resolved after 7 h 49 min.

Started
Ended
Worst state
Degraded
On Stripe’s status page
Source
Components
Acquirers and payment methods

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Timeline

  1. Stripe status page · Reported Elevated Bancontact errors
  2. Stripe status page · Investigating We're currently investigating elevated errors on Bancontact payments. We'll post an update soon.
  3. Stripe status page · Investigating We continue seeing elevated errors on Bancontact payments. We've identified the cause as external to the Stripe infrastructure. We will continue to monitor and will post an update as soon as possible.
  4. Stripe status page · Resolved From 21:00 on Aug 16 to 01:50 on Aug 17 UTC, some Bancontact payments experienced elevated processing errors. This issue has now been resolved.

Cite this incident

Site Qwality, “Elevated Bancontact errors,” Aug 16, 2026, https://siteqwality.com/is-stripe-down/incidents/stripe-202608162239/

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