Sage Pay suffers 2nd day of downtime Sage's online payment service SagePay is mainly not working for its 32,000 customers today, and it wasn't really working yesterday either. There seems to be a slight discrepancy between Sage's Twitter feed and its system monitor page on its website. The company's Twitter feed warns that live processing is not working but its …
Yeah, well, if you keep an eye on that you will see rather than posting a new status update when the situation changes they just edit the current one. Makes it very difficult to believe anything they say.
With "My Sage Pay" system not showing any transactions for tday, and "Intermittent Live Transactions" it makes it near on impossible to tell if A customer has paid or not. Or if a customer has paided several times or not...
Still I'm sure Simon will send out a mass email of sorry when it's all over, promising to improve in the future..If the good old days when it was Protx we had no issues like this at all, ever since sage took over it has been one failure to the next.
I have finally had enough with Sage Pay!
What a joke, been messing around for 2 days and ruining my business and friends business who I suggested to them to use Sage Pay.
I have now contacted another Payment Gateway to get this sorted. I am currently in talks with CardStream Payment gateway (http://cardstream.com/). I found these guys from recommendation actually and so far the help on the other side of the phone is great! They're also cheaper than Sage Pay which is a Bonus ! Only 6.57p a transaction instead of 7.34p !!
Rant Over !!! Good buy Sage and Onion and hello Cardstream !
I have finally had enough with Sage Pay!
What a joke, been messing around for 2 days and ruining my business and friends business who I suggested to them to use Sage Pay.
I have now contacted another Payment Gateway to get this sorted. I am currently in talks with CardStream Payment gateway (http://cardstream.com/). I found these guys from recommendation actually and so far the help on the other side of the phone is great! They're also cheaper than Sage Pay which is a Bonus ! Only 6.57p a transaction instead of 7.34p !!
Rant Over !!! Good "buy" Sage and Onion and hello Cardstream !
After the diabolical problems in Nov, we set up an account with IridiumCorp. We process some of our transactions through them, and some through SagePay. When we get more than 2 timeouts in a row, our system switches over automatically.
So far (since Nov) we haven't had any timeouts on Iridium. We're keeping both gateways permanently, but processing most of the transactions through Iridium.
Funnily enough they sent out an email this morning:
"The Sage Pay payment gateway is fully functional and successfully processing all transactions. However, we are still encountering some issues in populating transactions into My Sage Pay"
I guess they were lying then? Why doesn't that surprise me?
Protx were so bad they implemented 3d-secure years after the rest of the payment industry when mastercard finally mandated it.
They then screwed it up.
I suspect it's either lack of investment or a platform which is so badly designed (and documented) they don't dare touch anything lest it blow up in their faces.
In 5 years and 20k transactions a month we've had one failure with our processor (secure trading) and that was down to our firewalls blocking updates. They aren't all the same.
"a platform which is so badly designed (and documented) they don't dare touch anything lest it blow up in their faces."
I suspect it's largely this! Although it would help if they didn't try to do upgrades during the busy Xmas period. Knowing that something may go wrong, why risk peeing off your customers that badly?
They can't even get the status page right! Currently there's a green flag and the message:
"System Normal - Thu 03 Mar 2011 6:54pm. Live transactions are not processing - The Sage Pay gateway is currently not processing any transactions. We are working to get this resolved as a matter of urgency. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience. Please continue to check the system monitor page for further updates."
Apparently, at SageFail, it's normal for transactions not to be processed...
My company lost thousands of pounds today during this debacle. As other commenters have said - it's the latest in a long line of ridiculous outages. SagePay send lovely emails once every few weeks telling us about all the amazing changes they're making. Unfortunately none of them prevent this kind of thing - THE most damaging thing for merchants - when customers give up on their purchases because SagePay doesn't work.
After such a poor record of outages, we now think that the MD of SagePay, Simon Black should resign from his job. He's had enough chances to sack the people who can't get this system to be reliable, and he should now go and let someone else do a proper job.
Please write and tell him so - his email is just his first name @ sagepay.com
Once you've done that - send a letter to the Chairman of SagePay's board requesting his removal.
***THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE***
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