Financial services demand transparency your customers can trust
Regulators expect it. Customers demand it. Partners depend on it. When your payment processing, trading platform, or banking API goes down, silence isn't just bad UX — it's a compliance risk. CheckStatus gives fintech companies a single source of truth for operational status.
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The problem
Why fintech companies need a status page
Regulatory scrutiny
Financial regulators increasingly require transparent incident reporting. Without a documented audit trail of outages and responses, you risk compliance gaps that lead to fines, failed audits, and loss of operating licenses.
Internal coordination gaps
During a payment processing outage, operations, compliance, engineering, and customer success all need real-time status visibility. Without a centralized internal status page, teams waste critical minutes tracking down information instead of resolving the incident.
Partner and developer trust
Banks, payment networks, and fintech partners integrate with your APIs. When those integrations fail silently, partners lose confidence in your platform's reliability — and start building fallback plans with your competitors.
Compliance ready
Built-in audit logs for every incident and status change
Every incident creation, status update, and resolution is automatically logged with timestamps and user attribution. Export audit trails for regulatory reviews, SOC 2 audits, or internal compliance reporting — available on the Pro plan.
- Timestamped audit trail for every status change
- User attribution on all incident updates
- Exportable logs for compliance and regulatory reviews
Internal visibility
Private status pages for compliance, ops, and engineering teams
Not every stakeholder needs the same view. Create private status pages that give your internal compliance team, operations center, and engineering teams a detailed real-time view — while your public page shows customers only what they need to know.
- Password-protected pages for internal teams
- Separate public and private status views
- Role-based access for compliance and engineering
Partner transparency
Give partners and developers real-time API health visibility
Your payment APIs, banking integrations, and webhook endpoints are critical infrastructure for your partners. Component-level monitoring lets partners see exactly which services are affected, and subscribe only to the endpoints they depend on.
- Component-level monitoring per API endpoint
- Partner-specific subscription notifications
- Webhook integrations for Slack, Teams, and PagerDuty
By the numbers
The case for fintech transparency
$5,600
Avg cost per minute of fintech downtime
73%
Of financial firms faced regulatory action after undisclosed outages
95%
Customer retention with transparent comms
79%
Cheaper than StatusPage.io
Pricing comparison
Save thousands vs StatusPage.io
Get the same features fintech companies need at a fraction of the cost.
StatusPage.io
Atlassian's status page product
$99 /mo per page
- 1 status page
- Custom CSS at $399/mo
- Private pages +$79/mo
- 3 pages = $297/mo
CheckStatus
Everything fintech teams need
$39 /mo for 3 pages
- Up to 3 status pages included
- Custom CSS included
- Private pages included
- Saves $3,096/year
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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Yes. Our Pro plan includes full audit logging that records every incident creation, status update, component change, and resolution with timestamps and user attribution. You can export these logs for SOC 2 audits, regulatory reviews, or internal compliance reporting.
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Absolutely. CheckStatus supports password-protected private pages on the Growth plan and above. Create separate views for your compliance team, operations center, and engineering teams while keeping your public-facing page focused on what customers need to know.
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CheckStatus gives you a documented, timestamped record of every incident and your response to it. This audit trail demonstrates to regulators that you have transparent incident communication processes in place, which is increasingly required in financial services.
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Yes! CheckStatus lets you create individual components for each API endpoint (e.g., /v1/payments, /v1/transfers, /v1/accounts). Partners and developers can subscribe to only the components they depend on, so they receive targeted notifications without noise from unrelated services.
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CheckStatus is hosted on independent infrastructure with automatic SSL on all custom domains. Your status page data is isolated per account, and we support role-based access controls for team members. For fintech companies that need private pages, our Growth and Pro plans include password-protected access.
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Yes! Our free plan includes 1 status page, up to 5 components, email notifications, and full API access. It's a great way to start building operational transparency before upgrading to Growth or Pro for audit logs, private pages, and custom domains.
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