Yahoo suffering from payment service outages due to heavy load

Yahoo might not be as active in marketing their payment services as PayPal and Google Checkout are but they are still heavily used by shoppers in the US market.

Their payment processing systems have been reported to be suffering from uptime issues as the load increased in the recent days.

Yahoo’s Store System status page showed this message confirming the problem: “Some merchants are reporting that shoppers are receiving an error message indicating “system unavailable” during the checkout process.”

Yahoo spokeswoman Diana Wong said that they were working hard on making sure that the service stays up this holiday season. She said: “We are minutes away from getting everything back up.”

Checkout: Yahoo! Merchant Solutions System Status