{"id":214681,"date":"2025-12-04T08:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/214681\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:20:09","slug":"venmo-service-outage-resolved-after-users-struggle-with-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/214681\/","title":{"rendered":"Venmo service outage resolved after users struggle with transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venmo announced early Thursday that an issue impacting the payment service had been fixed and it was \u201cback up and running,\u201d after users reported trouble sending and receiving money for hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate you bearing with us while our team addressed this,\u201d the company said in a post on the social platform X.<\/p>\n<p>Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, showed reports that problems began spiking at about 6:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Many people posted on social media about experiencing problems with the service, including some who said they were unable to pay for medication or buy dinner. <\/p>\n<p>Venmo had said Wednesday night on X that it was \u201cworking on a fix.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The company didn\u2019t provide any additional details about what caused the problem or how it was fixed.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/venmo-paypal-cashapp-p2p-payments-deposit-insurance-f89eba2486a383160b9343e2e4e60b3f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peer-to-peer payment apps<\/a> have exploded in popularity in the last decade. Venmo had 92 million active users as of last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venmo announced early Thursday that an issue impacting the payment service had been fixed and it was \u201cback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[1374,8268,18,3334,19,285,17,105038,279,864,82,4077],"class_list":{"0":"post-214681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-domestic-news","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-internet","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-local-news-for-apple","16":"tag-mobile","17":"tag-software","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-u-s-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115660326411662893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}