Stevens, who runs the SM Hair hairdressers across the road, said the first thing she knew of the troubles had been when a client asked if her machine was working because he had read the news. The store had problems taking card payments all afternoon, with customers going outside and waiting patiently to take money out of a cash point, before returning. “I usually just pay by cash anyway,” said Mandy Stevens, as she came out of Morrisons with her shopping. I’m just relieved someone hasn’t emptied our bank account!īusiness owners and shoppers out in Broomhill in west Sheffield seemed intensely relaxed about the Visa machine difficulties. Could they not have told us that instead of making us feel mortified as if we didn’t have money in our bank account in front of a queue of customers. Account was fine it must be Asda’s machines. Phoned the bank, waited half an hour to speak to someone. How could both cards not be working? And how were we going to pay for our shopping? My husband used his credit card.

The none-to-helpful checkout assistant told us to take it up with the bank. We have a joint account so I used my card - declined too. They tried three times, so I ran out to the car to get my card which I’d used just before to pay the hygienist.

My husband used his card to pay and checkout assistant declared it was declined. My husband and I had nipped to Asda earlier to get some shopping. Luckily I had some dollars in cash from earlier and a colleague has a MasterCard so we’re not totally stuck!Īmid a lack of information at a the supermarket till, reader Fiona Hillhouse had to make various enquiries at Asda and her bank before being told about the problem. We’re currently in the US for work and all our Visa work cards were declined, so it looks like the outage seems to be affecting cards being used outside Europe, too. Rich Dunning, an administrator at the University of Liverpool who is currently working in the US with a colleague, had his card declined. Sounds like this has been happening earlier than reported. The sales assistant thought it was the card machine so I used Apple Pay. My Visa debit was declined in M&S in the City at about 13:15 today. Allegiant Stadium was hosting the WWE SummerSlam wrestling show Saturday night, and according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal the cashless concessions systems were not operable, causing large lines to form and that some concessions stands were just handing out prepared food and non-alcoholic beverages.Readers have been getting in touch with their experiences.Īlthough the outage appears to have struck at around 2:30pm, one reader said she was unable to use her Visa debit at lunchtime. Shift4 Payments, which processes payments at many businesses in Las Vegas, including Allegiant Stadium, also tweeted that they were aware of the problem, which they said was with TSYS and not with Shift4’s systems. venues Saturday night, including the San Diego Padres’ Petco Park and Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Normally event attendees have no idea of what goes on in the background of a stadium’s payment-processing business, but when systems go down like they did Saturday night, it’s not a pleasant outcome for anyone involved.ĭetails are still being sorted out but apparently a system outage at a company called TSYS, which calls itself “a leading global provider of seamless, secure and innovative solutions to payment card issuers,” caused concessions systems to become inoperable at some U.S.

Credit card processing outage