Mobile payments service Venmo back after outage

San Francisco, Dec 31 (IANS) PayPal owned mobile payment service Venmo has suffered an outage for few hours.

The issues first hit the platform around 11:30 a.m. ET on Monday morning and continued for more than two hours, according to the company

“We are currently experiencing an interruption in service on the Venmo mobile app,” Venmo Support tweeted at 10:45 a.m. PT amid people taking to the micro-blogging platform to complain about having their cards declined and not being able to pay rent and bills.

Venmo added its teams were working to resolve the issue, apologising to customers for the “inconvenience”, CNET reported.

“Our team fixed the issue, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers,” Venmo Support had tweeted later.

The mobile payment service is yet to specify what caused the issue, and didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, the report added.