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Clear Books is operational right now, apart from 1 long-running issue open since April 30, 2026. Last checked just now.

Real-time Clear Books status, recent outages, and incident history: pulled directly from Clear Books's official status page at status.clearbooks.co.uk every 5 minutes. Pingoru tracks 65 Clear Books services and has captured 24 incidents in the last 90 days (99.83% uptime). Get email, Slack, Discord, or webhook alerts the moment Clear Books reports a new incident, free for 3 monitors, no credit card.

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Recent outages & incidents

Past 90 days
  1. Resolved –
    Started Oct 23, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 23, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC
    Timeline · 1 update
    • scheduled · Oct 23, 2026, 05:00 PM UTC

      HMRC are performing [scheduled maintenance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-software-to-send-income-tax-updates-service-availability-and-issues/use-software-to-send-income-tax-updates-service-availability-and-issues) from 8am Sunday 25th to 12pm Sunday 25th October. You may be unable to view or submit your MTD for Income Tax or VAT information during this time.

    Latest: HMRC are performing [scheduled maintenance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/use-software-to-send-income-tax-updates-service-availability-and-issues/use-software-to-send-…

  2. Resolved –
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC
    Authentication
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC

      Authentication check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

    Latest: Authentication check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

  3. Resolved –
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC
    Marketing and help pages
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC

      Marketing pages check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

    Latest: Marketing pages check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

  4. Resolved –
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC
    Accounting
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC

      Accounting check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

    Latest: Accounting check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

  5. Resolved –
    Started Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC
    Subscription management
    Timeline · 1 update
    • investigating · Oct 21, 2026, 02:47 PM UTC

      Subscription management check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

    Latest: Subscription management check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

See the full Clear Books outage history

12 more incidents in the last 90 days, plus the full multi-year archive of per-service events and update timelines.

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Incident record

Since April 2026 · Cachet · 65 components checked every 5 minutes
50incidents recorded
17last 12 months
16last 90 days
under a minutetypical duration, 12 months

The longest incident in the last year, HMRC Scheduled Maintenance on October 23, 2026, ran for under a minute.

Most affected components, last 12 months

  • HMRC ITSA (MTD)5
  • The Co-operative Bank2
  • Accounting1
  • Authentication1
  • Clear Books API1

Latest incidents

  • HMRC Scheduled Maintenance October 23, 2026 · under a minute · degraded service

    HMRC are performing [scheduled…

  • Authentication - System monitor October 21, 2026 · under a minute · degraded service

    Authentication check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

  • Marketing pages - System monitor October 21, 2026 · under a minute · degraded service

    Marketing pages check **failed** (server time: 21/10/2026 14:47:34 GMT) Expected HTTP response status: 200, got: 503

Outage history

Past 90 days · 16 incidents View full outage history →