Payment services have resumed across Australia after a disruption on Saturday afternoon left some customers unable to complete purchases at major retailers.<\/p>\n
Reports spread during the afternoon as shoppers said card transactions and digital wallet payments were failing during a global MasterCard outage triggered by a \u201csystem update\u201d.<\/p>\n
Customers described problems with bank cards as well as mobile wallet purchases, including Apple Pay and Android Pay, when linked to MasterCard.<\/p>\n
Businesses in parts of Sydney and Brisbane reported confusion at check-outs as some transactions went through while others were declined. At one point, retailers were asking customers to try another card, use cash or return later.<\/p>\n
During the outage, the owner of Chargrill Charlie\u2019s Ron Shaked in Sydney said they \u201chad to turn customers away\u201d.<\/p>\n
Frenchmans Rd Pharmacy also said the issue was inconsistent, with some cards working normally while others failed.<\/p>\n
A Brisbane woman said she was left embarrassed when her payment was declined at a Bowen Hills cafe despite having funds in her account.<\/p>\n
\u201cI checked the accounts and the money was there but every attempt was declined,\u201d she told NewsWire.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never have cash but luckily for once I did or I would\u2019ve had to leave. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was embarrassing enough as it was \u2013 I know the money was there but you still feel like a bit of a fraud when it fails.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement to NewsWire, a MasterCard spokesperson said a \u201cscheduled system update\u201d caused MasterCard transactions to be declined for a period of time. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation has been resolved and all systems are working as normal,\u201d the spokesperson said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Payment services have resumed across Australia after a disruption on Saturday afternoon left some customers unable to complete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[269906,269916,269911,269946,269910,269940,269915,269929,269934,269932,269937,269907,269947,92207,269922,269903,269917,11862,1128,269921,269914,269927,3731,269918,269936,269930,269938,67967,9940,8490,269931,18,269904,25817,269945,269939,19,17,269920,269912,269923,269926,279,269944,10846,118682,269941,133776,269905,60381,86063,42931,1818,3123,60573,27015,269928,269913,269908,269933,5792,269924,269909,82,269919,269943,250009,269942,269925,269902,189580,269935,1093],"class_list":["post-638291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-frenchmans-rd-pharmacy","tag-s-ron-shaked","tag-a-scheduled-system-update","tag-a-system-update","tag-a-bit","tag-a-bowen-hills-cafe","tag-a-disruption","tag-a-fraud","tag-a-global-mastercard-outage","tag-a-mastercard-spokesperson","tag-a-payment-network-fault","tag-a-period","tag-a-statement","tag-afternoon","tag-all-systems","tag-android-pay","tag-another-card","tag-apple-pay","tag-australia","tag-bank-cards","tag-brisbane-woman","tag-card-transactions","tag-cash","tag-cash-or-return","tag-chargrill-charlie","tag-check-outs","tag-checkout-chaos","tag-confusion","tag-customers","tag-digital-payments","tag-digital-wallet-payments","tag-eire","tag-every-attempt","tag-funds","tag-her-account","tag-her-payment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-major-retailers","tag-mastercard-services","tag-mastercard-transactions","tag-mastercard-businesses","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-wallet-purchases","tag-newswire","tag-newswire-news","tag-one-point","tag-parts","tag-payment-outage","tag-payment-services","tag-problems","tag-purchases","tag-reports","tag-retailers","tag-saturday","tag-shoppers","tag-some-card-and-mobile-wallet-purchases","tag-some-cards","tag-some-customers","tag-some-transactions","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-and-brisbane","tag-system-update","tag-technology","tag-the-accounts","tag-the-afternoon","tag-the-issue","tag-the-money","tag-the-outage","tag-the-owner","tag-the-situation","tag-the-spokesperson","tag-time"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638291","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=638291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}