Otters UK - Notice history

All systems operational

useotters.com - Operational

100% - uptime
Jun 2024
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Operational

app.useotters.com - Operational

100% - uptime
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gateway.useotters.com - Operational

100% - uptime
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cheque.useotters.com - Operational

100% - uptime
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Otters Inspect - Operational

100% - uptime
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100% - uptime

Support services - Operational

Email services - Operational

Notice history

Aug 2024

No notices reported this month

Jul 2024

Scheduled maintenance for useotters.com and critical backend systems
  • Completed
    July 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM
    Completed
    July 27, 2024 at 9:00 PM
    Maintenance has completed successfully
  • In progress
    July 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
    In progress
    July 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
    Maintenance is now in progress
  • Planned
    July 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM
    Planned
    July 27, 2024 at 6:00 PM

    We are planning some critical maintenance on our website, useotters.com, and our financial controller cheque.useotters.com. There will be some major reworks of the website and we will be refactoring our gateway API to allow us to move a lot of financial controls over to our new financial controller, allowing for a smoother process when starting your subscription. This will also allow us to maintain and ensure the quality of life for our new dashboard.

    The website should remain up for the duration of the maintenance however may experience intermittent outages whilst some backend services are changed. These intermittent outages should not last longer than 5 minutes and should not cause a mass performance degradation.

    Our financial controller will be completely unavailable during this time. If you make a payment, please expect delays to it being fully processed on the backend. You may not receive any direct confirmation from us that your payment has been processed and onboarding has been paused during this maintenance timeframe. Rest assured that payments will instead enter a queue and will naturally resorb once maintenance is complete.

    Please do not contact support about billing during this time. Allow at least an hour before reporting any issues to our Customer Care Team regarding billing.

    Collectively, all maintenance should be fully complete by 8:00PM BST, however, depending on the complexity of some of the transfers it may continue longer and there may be more significant performance degradations during this time. We will let you know if this is the case.

    If you have any questions, please let our Customer Care Team know at office@useotters.com.

Intermittent issues with useotters.com
  • Resolved
    Resolved

    It appears in further investigation the issue has resolved itself.

  • Monitoring
    Monitoring

    We are unable to identify a root cause for this issue. From initial inspection, it seems very localised with only a very small handful of people potentially experiencing it, so we are not experiencing a mass degradation of service.

    We will monitor this issue and see if it spreads outside the small handful of individuals. You may find that the useotters.com website takes a little longer to load as we took some steps to attempt to identify and debug the issue. This should resolve itself in a few hours.

    Please let us know by emailing at office@useotters.com with your Cloudflare Ray ID and your IP if you experience this issue.

  • Investigating
    Investigating

    We're investigating reports from a small group of users that they are being presented with a 522 error when trying to visit our main website useotters.com

    We're currently investigating the root cause and working on a fix. This incident is secluded to a very small minority of users and is not causing major degradation to user experience.

Global IT Incident affecting payments
  • Resolved
    Resolved

    As of July 22, 04:36AM BST, it looks like all financial services have recovered and any potentially backlogged payments have resorbed and therefore been processed accordingly.

    We will therefore be marking this incident as resolved. We are continuing to monitor the impact of the Crowdstrike outage on any other services.

  • Update
    Update

    We are aware that the impact of the incident is now minimal, however, we are still being told some payments may still be affected by this incident. We are not currently reporting any issues with payments at this time.

    We remain closely monitoring the incident and hope a resolution is found as soon as possible.

  • Monitoring
    Monitoring

    Otters is aware of a global IT incident starting July 19th. Our payment services remain operational.

    We have been made aware by our payment processor, Stripe, that due to a service interruption with one of their partner banks linked to the Global IT incident some individuals may encounter issues processing new payments. We are also aware that lapsing payments may fail to process. Otters has not received reports from any prospective or existing clients of issues like these yet.

    We are aware that this interruption only affects a small cluster of payment methods that may not be available to all clients.

    We are closely monitoring the situation and will update this once we hear an update.

Jun 2024

Issue with email support to multiple support emails
  • Resolved
    Resolved

    After monitoring the fix, we can confirm this issue has been resolved and emails are now being relayed to our support services.

    We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you have been emailed by our team about your support enquiry, please respond so we can process it as soon as possible.

  • Monitoring
    Monitoring

    After extensive investigation into the issue with our email security platform technical support team, we have resolved the issue and support emails for all the emails listed are now working and routing back to our support system.

    We will continue to monitor this over the next couple of days to ensure the fix has worked and we are receiving the emails as we should.

  • Update
    Update

    After further investigation, this issue extends to multiple different support emails. We understand that most email servers should reject you sending the email. The following emails are affected:

    - office@useotters.com

    - counterclaims@useotters.com

    - dmca@useotters.com

    - employee-verification@useotters.com

    - dpo@useotters.com

    If you need to send us an email, please use the messenger at useotters.com temporarily. We will provide updates when we can about this issue.

  • Identified
    Identified

    We have identified the root cause of the issue being with our email security platform that is not allowing emails to be delivered to our support system due to a relay issue.

    This means that, at the minute, no emails to our support email can be received. If you've sent an email — we see you! We'll be manually opening conversations for those who have sent an email requesting you resend it within that email so we can review.

    We're reaching out to our provider to resolve this problem.

  • Investigating
    Investigating

    We're currently investigating an issue with our support services, causing emails to our support email address (office@useotters.com) to be rejected with a relay error from our provider.

Jun 2024 to Aug 2024

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