Is anyone experiencing this? First of all i can't login to my account, second all of my purchase links return a 404 not found error.

Yep, down for me too.

Grrr...

errrm...Running fine from California

It's also down for me. If I try to login to the members area I get "Error Unable to Connect to Database do to network problems, 2Checkout has been notified, please try again in a few minutes."

This is pissing me off 2 potential clients were going to sign-up but can't!!

Same here.. :angry:

Anyone know what the problem is or when it will at last be fixed?

I submitted a support request but have not heard anything yet. I imagine they are too busy trying to fix the problem. I'm sure it will be resolved soon.

But I'll still throw in another Grrr...

Members oage down for me as well (UK)

Owe well, another few thousand lost to 2checkout.com

I'm also guessing they are to busy fixing it to answer our questions

Originally posted by Deahost
Owe well, another few thousand lost to 2checkout.com
Wish I was doing that well! :rolleyes:

Per an email I just received from them:
Our host is having network problems and is working on the solution.

Tom
tom@2checkout.com

ya its down for me too

It is back up I just got a sale

Just lost a sale because of this... Very annoying. :angry:

I have been considering getting a 2checkout account... Maybe I shouldn't? I have seen a couple different posts like this, do they go down often?

hmm...

Originally posted by vibehosts
This is pissing me off 2 potential clients were going to sign-up but can't!!

I lost at least 4 potential clients :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

For me it keeps going up and down weird huh, but I got my 2 potentials back by getting them to pay when it was up:)

Originally posted by avara
Just lost a sale because of this... Very annoying. :angry:

it's annoying, but these things happen when you outsource your billing.... just my 2c.

(I use 2co too btw)

Lets hope they sort this problem out soon.... we are all loosing customers!:angry:

It is working for me so it is sorted out

2checkout have been kinda ok for us. Does anyone know of a contact telephone number for 2checkout.com? We were worried because our payment hadn't gone into our account - I have sent them 3 urgent emails but I didn't get a response to any!?!?!

Originally posted by Deahost
Members oage down for me as well (UK)

Owe well, another few thousand lost to 2checkout.com

It truly is unfortunate that 2checkout.com is down for all of you, but Deahost, if you are processing thousands of dollars per month, do yourself a HUGE favor and get a merchant account. It will really save you money when you are processing thousands per month.

-Steven

We are in the process of sorting out a merchant acount.



Originally posted by insiderhosting


It truly is unfortunate that 2checkout.com is down for all of you, but Deahost, if you are processing thousands of dollars per month, do yourself a HUGE favor and get a merchant account. It will really save you money when you are processing thousands per month.

-Steven

Remember no matter where you have your merchant account your gateway is still going to be on someone else's server and if they are down.. so are you.. We have had our own account for years and this same thing happened last week and has happened a few other times in the past. It is the same as if your server is down and your customers are screaming at you :)

Is is upsetting? heck yes but nothing the guys a 2checkout.com can do if a server goes down or their gateway fails. They are good people..

If you are getting more than $700 a month in sales you should be on your own merchant account anyway since it would be cheaper.

My 1.67845 cents.. (taxes you know)

Robert

I have a little problem with this situation, are you all trying to say that merchant accounts don't have network problems as well? I'm assuming if we check Authorize.net's uptime it probably wouldn't show 4 or 5 years what do you all think?

Even if you don't use the merchants servers to do the processing, you still have to connect to the servers to do "real-time processing".

I see this a lot, you all expect absolute perfection when it comes to your outsourcing yet I HIGHLY doubt that any of you haven't had a single problem which caused downtime. A company doing the amount of transactions that 2CO does is bound to have down time here and there, just like even the largest merchant processing banks, and the most highly regarded upstream providers.

And honestly, I somehow doubt ANYONE lost a couple of thousand dollars in the hour and 45 minutes that 2CO was down. I somehow doubt any company on this board charges $500 every hour in hosting.

Originally posted by comphosting
I have a little problem with this situation, are you all trying to say that merchant accounts don't have network problems as well? I'm assuming if we check Authorize.net's uptime it probably wouldn't show 4 or 5 years what do you all think?

Even if you don't use the merchants servers to do the processing, you still have to connect to the servers to do "real-time processing".

I see this a lot, you all expect absolute perfection when it comes to your outsourcing yet I HIGHLY doubt that any of you haven't had a single problem which caused downtime. A company doing the amount of transactions that 2CO does is bound to have down time here and there, just like even the largest merchant processing banks, and the most highly regarded upstream providers.

And honestly, I somehow doubt ANYONE lost a couple of thousand dollars in the hour and 45 minutes that 2CO was down. I somehow doubt any company on this board charges $500 every hour in hosting.


:D
Exactly

I don't know the guys at 2checkout personally but some of the people I do business with know them very well and they are good folks from what I have seen. Cut them some slack.

I did not even think about the part on losing $1000's of dollars.. I would have to be down for a couple of weeks to lose that much in new sign ups. Where are you guys advertising? Me wants part of that good deal.. :D :D :D

Play nice, have fun..
Robert

Yeh 2checkout.com are good - apart from not replying to our emails we have had no problems....we got our payment on time - I am very happy!!:)

Originally posted by puggy106
Yeh 2checkout.com are good - apart from not replying to our emails we have had no problems....we got our payment on time - I am very happy!!:)

Exactly same situation with us!

I agree that 2CheckOut offers a good service. We've had very little problems with them.

I do think though that the limitations of having to cancel and recreate a recurring order to make changes to the amount billed each month are a little too much. I've suggested to them a way to do it and still verify the change with the customer, but they wouldn't have anything to do with it.

I recommend a merchant account if you can go with one, we're looking into ECHO (www.echo-inc.com) at the moment.

Neofree

Now they are having Internal server errors:

What is up with these guys.. we have lost sales all day today? What exactly is the problem?

I contacted support@2checkout.com about 5 hours ago.. No response. Also there is a problem at there forums as well, I cannot register because there is an error...

Originally posted by neofree


I do think though that the limitations of having to cancel and recreate a recurring order to make changes to the amount billed each month are a little too much. I've suggested to them a way to do it and still verify the change with the customer, but they wouldn't have anything to do with it.


I completely agree with you. We've had no major problems either, but I've always been somewhat surprised at the amount of work is necessary to make adjustments to recurring billing!