“Multiple Features” Down: Revolut’s App and Cards Stall on a Tuesday Morning
What's happening
Revolut experienced a service disruption on Tuesday morning that left customers unable to open the app or pay by card. Downdetector reports user complaints starting at 6:50am UK time and peaking at 1,458 reports by 8:00am, with affected users in countries including Belgium, Finland, France and Italy. Revolut acknowledged the incident on X, saying engineers were working to restore full service and that multiple features were affected. Community pages such as Reddit and sites including The Next Web and Payment Expert covered the outage as ongoing while support responded.
Why it's trending
Widespread user reports and an official acknowledgement pushed the outage into the news cycle this morning.
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- Revolut outage leaves global users unable to make payments
This is an ongoing story and will be updated regularly Revolut customers have been impacted by an outage affecting multiple regions and services. According to downdetector, customers began logging reports of outages at 6:50am (UK time), which peaked at 1,458 reports by 8:00am. The Revolut Reddit page revealed that customers in Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, […]
Payment ExpertOct 20 - Revolut outage leaves customers unable to use app or cardsThe Next WebOct 20
- “Multiple Features” Down: Revolut’s App and Cards Stall on a Tuesday Morning
Revolut confirmed a service disruption on Tuesday 20 October after customers reported problems opening the app and paying by card. Its support said on X that it was experiencing “a service disruption affecting multiple features” and that engineers were working to restore full service. We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting multiple services. We can confirm that all our custom
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