Moneris Canada-wide debit machine outage resolved, company says
Posted September 23, 2023 11:39 am.
Last Updated September 23, 2023 1:19 pm.
Moneris says it has a resolved a network outage issue that was affecting debit machines across the country Saturday morning.
CityNews had received reports of debit machines being down across the country, but the issue was resolved by 11:15 a.m. PST the same morning.
Moneris has resolved a network outage and returned transaction processing to normal. Merchants may experience some transaction slowness while systems catch up.
— Moneris (@Moneris) September 23, 2023
The company posted to social media saying merchants may experience “some transactional slowness” while systems catch up.
Other posts on social media say businesses were affected from B.C.’s south coast all the way to Ontario.
Interac’s network did not report any similar issues.
It’s not clear what caused the network outage or how many businesses were affected, but Moneris says it supports more than 325,000 merchant locations across Canada.
CityNews has reached out to Moneris for more information.
With files from The Canadian Press.
