Point of sale merchant Clover has been offline for several hours #clover
The #clover outage is caused by problems at First Data, a card merchant owned by Fiserv - will impact other regions. #fiserv #FirstData
As the US wakes up, the First Data payment merchant outage impacts will spread. #clover #fiserv #FirstData

Clover’s latest update.

Clover is owned by Fiserv, who also own First Data. #clover #fiserv #FirstData

@GossiTheDog the reverse corporations in a trenchcoat.
One corporation acting as if it was many
Fiserv Completes Combination With First Data Further Cementing Industry Leadership - Fiserv, Inc.

BROOKFIELD, Wis. --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 29, 2019-- Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of First Data Corporation . With the transaction complete, Fiserv is one of the world’s

Fiserv, Inc.
@GossiTheDog can the impact become worse as people start overloading upstream services of the failure with requests (due to frustration)?
@GossiTheDog yup, card payment is broken across germany at the moment due to First Data
@GossiTheDog It already has. Payment through card networks is down. https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/kartenzahlung-stoerung-102.html
Kartenzahlung in ganz Deutschland gestört

Wer an der Kasse per Karte zahlen möchte, könnte aktuell auf Probleme stoßen: Seit dem frühen Morgen ist die Zahlung mit Giro-, Kredit- und Debitkarte bundesweit gestört.

tagesschau.de
@GossiTheDog Yeah, apparently all of Wawa’s (East Coast US-based convenience store) PoS systems are down right now.
@joy @GossiTheDog my personal vietnam
@emilyCringe @GossiTheDog Emily, I don’t mean to laugh… but I totally understand.

@joy @GossiTheDog Ok well now it’s serious. I need my Italian hoagie.

I am not joking.

@GossiTheDog Seems we are back up and taking payments via Clover.
@GossiTheDog Thanks! Now we know we do not have a national problem in DE 😀. Thought so, but nice to have confirmation.
@GossiTheDog same with card payments in Germany.