Following the Status of my Credit Card Gateway Outage
Sometimes, you cannot process a credit card because there is an issue with your Gateway - Shift4, Elavon, Moneris or Tsys.
Each of them has its own URL you can go to follow the status of an outage:
- Fortis: https://status.epicpay.com/
- Elavon: https://status.elavon.com/
- Shift4: https://shift4payments.statuspage.io/
- Moneris: https://www.moneris.com/en/ServiceStatus
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