Allegiant’s cashless system goes down during WWE SummerSlam

An outage of the outgo processing strategy astatine Allegiant Stadium caused havoc for fans during Saturday night’s WWE SummerSlam show.

Multiple fans reported issues with the stadium’s cashless transactions, creating agelong lines and frustration.

A cheque of respective concession stands revealed workers handing retired escaped water, soda and blistery nutrient items that already had been prepared. Alcohol was not available.

One concession basal selling cans of brew did person a moving recognition paper terminal. About 75 radical were observed successful enactment to acquisition the beverages.

Petco Park, which was hosting a Major League Baseball crippled betwixt the San Diego Padres and the Philadlephia Phillies connected Saturday night, reported a akin contented connected Twitter. The announcement from the San Diego venue said it was nationwide outage.

https://twitter.com/PetcoPark/status/1429262152020357135/photo/1

The outgo processor, Shift4Payments, acknowledged connected Twitter the issues with cashless transactions and that it was a nationwide problem.

“We are alert of a nationwide processing outage astatine TSYS, 1 of the largest outgo platforms successful the country. This outage is impacting immoderate of our customers & galore different payments providers. We are successful adjacent interaction with TSYS to facilitate a solution arsenic rapidly arsenic possible,” the institution tweeted.

We are alert of a nationwide processing outage astatine TSYS, 1 of the largest outgo platforms successful the country. This outage is impacting immoderate of our customers & galore different payments providers. We are successful adjacent interaction with TSYS to facilitate a solution arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

— Shift4 Payments (@Shift4Payments) August 22, 2021

It was the archetypal nonrecreational wrestling amusement astatine Allegiant Stadium and 1 of the archetypal events of immoderate benignant with fans. The Raiders person played 1 preseason crippled astatine Allegiant and unfastened the regular play against the Ravens connected Sept. 13.

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