diff --git a/src/App/Installer/Contract/TimestampedMigrationInterface.php b/src/App/Installer/Contract/TimestampedMigrationInterface.php
index f53edb586..6b298e98b 100644
--- a/src/App/Installer/Contract/TimestampedMigrationInterface.php
+++ b/src/App/Installer/Contract/TimestampedMigrationInterface.php
@@ -13,4 +13,17 @@ interface TimestampedMigrationInterface extends MigrationInterface
      * a timestamp, sorting ids alphabetically also sorts the migrations oldest-to-newest.
      */
     public function getId(): string;
+
+    /**
+     * Whether the migration ran but did not finish its work.
+     *
+     * A migration that depends on something outside the shop — an API call, say — can fail for reasons
+     * that will clear up on their own. Throwing would abort the upgrade and, because the installer never
+     * records a migration that throws, leave the shop retrying a fatal on every load. Reporting failure
+     * instead lets the upgrade continue while keeping the migration unrecorded, so it is picked up again
+     * next time.
+     *
+     * @see \MyParcelNL\Pdk\App\Installer\Migration\AbstractTimestampedMigration::markFailed()
+     */
+    public function hasFailed(): bool;
 }
diff --git a/src/App/Installer/Migration/AbstractTimestampedMigration.php b/src/App/Installer/Migration/AbstractTimestampedMigration.php
index 4bd662756..76c1348fb 100644
--- a/src/App/Installer/Migration/AbstractTimestampedMigration.php
+++ b/src/App/Installer/Migration/AbstractTimestampedMigration.php
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 use LogicException;
 use MyParcelNL\Pdk\App\Installer\Contract\TimestampedMigrationInterface;
+use MyParcelNL\Pdk\Facade\Logger;
 
 /**
  * Base for file-based, timestamp-named migrations.
@@ -21,6 +22,35 @@ abstract class AbstractTimestampedMigration implements TimestampedMigrationInter
     /** @var string */
     private $id = '';
 
+    /** @var bool */
+    private $failed = false;
+
+    /**
+     * @inheritDoc
+     */
+    public function hasFailed(): bool
+    {
+        return $this->failed;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Report that this run did not finish, so the installer leaves the migration unrecorded.
+     *
+     * Call this instead of throwing when the work could not be completed for a reason that may resolve
+     * itself, so the upgrade carries on and the migration is attempted again on the next load. The reason
+     * is logged as an error, because a migration that quietly keeps failing is worse than one that fails
+     * loudly.
+     *
+     * @param  string $reason  What could not be done, in terms a reader of the log will understand
+     * @param  array  $context Extra detail for the log entry
+     */
+    protected function markFailed(string $reason, array $context = []): void
+    {
+        $this->failed = true;
+
+        Logger::error($reason, $context + ['migration' => $this->id]);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Called by the InstallerService loader once the migration file has been required.
      * Anonymous-class migrations cannot know their own filename, so identity is injected.
diff --git a/src/App/Installer/Service/InstallerService.php b/src/App/Installer/Service/InstallerService.php
index b8a665f86..388732515 100644
--- a/src/App/Installer/Service/InstallerService.php
+++ b/src/App/Installer/Service/InstallerService.php
@@ -556,8 +556,20 @@ private function runUpMigrations(Collection $migrations): void
                 }
 
                 $migration->up();
-                $this->markMigrationApplied($migration);
                 $ran[] = $id;
+
+                // A migration that reports failure is deliberately left unrecorded, so it runs again on
+                // the next load. The remaining migrations still run: one that could not finish should not
+                // hold up the rest of the upgrade.
+                if ($migration instanceof TimestampedMigrationInterface && $migration->hasFailed()) {
+                    Logger::warning('Migration did not finish and will be attempted again.', [
+                        'migration' => $id,
+                    ]);
+
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                $this->markMigrationApplied($migration);
             });
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Bootstrap/MockFailingTimestampedMigration.php b/tests/Bootstrap/MockFailingTimestampedMigration.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f378e1759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Bootstrap/MockFailingTimestampedMigration.php
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?php
+
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace MyParcelNL\Pdk\Tests\Bootstrap;
+
+use MyParcelNL\Pdk\App\Installer\Migration\AbstractTimestampedMigration;
+
+/**
+ * A migration that runs but reports it could not finish, the way one depending on an API call would.
+ *
+ * Its id sorts before MockTimestampedMigration20260101, so tests can assert that a migration which fails
+ * does not stop the ones after it from running.
+ */
+final class MockFailingTimestampedMigration extends AbstractTimestampedMigration
+{
+    public function __construct()
+    {
+        // In production code, setIdentity is called by the InstallerService loader.
+        $this->setIdentity('2025_01_01_000000_mock_failing');
+    }
+
+    public function up(): void
+    {
+        if (isset($GLOBALS['__migration_order'])) {
+            $GLOBALS['__migration_order'][] = $this->getId();
+        }
+
+        $this->markFailed('Mock migration could not finish.', ['reason' => 'test']);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/Unit/App/Installer/Service/InstallerServiceTest.php b/tests/Unit/App/Installer/Service/InstallerServiceTest.php
index 2498c6fd9..f3d433908 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/App/Installer/Service/InstallerServiceTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/App/Installer/Service/InstallerServiceTest.php
@@ -509,6 +509,61 @@ public function up(): void
     unset($GLOBALS['__migration_order']);
 });
 
+it('leaves a migration that reports failure unrecorded, so it runs again', function () {
+    /** @var PdkSettingsRepositoryInterface $settingsRepository */
+    $settingsRepository   = Pdk::get(PdkSettingsRepositoryInterface::class);
+    $installedVersionKey  = Pdk::get('settingKeyInstalledVersion');
+    $appliedMigrationsKey = Pdk::get('settingKeyAppliedMigrations');
+
+    $settingsRepository->store($installedVersionKey, '1.1.0');
+    $settingsRepository->store($appliedMigrationsKey, null);
+
+    \MyParcelNL\Pdk\Tests\Bootstrap\MockMigrationService::addUpgradeMigration(
+        \MyParcelNL\Pdk\Tests\Bootstrap\MockFailingTimestampedMigration::class
+    );
+
+    Installer::install();
+
+    // Recording it would strand the shop: nothing would ever attempt the work again.
+    expect($settingsRepository->get($appliedMigrationsKey))
+        ->not->toContain('2025_01_01_000000_mock_failing');
+});
+
+it('keeps running later migrations after one reports failure', function () {
+    /** @var PdkSettingsRepositoryInterface $settingsRepository */
+    $settingsRepository   = Pdk::get(PdkSettingsRepositoryInterface::class);
+    $installedVersionKey  = Pdk::get('settingKeyInstalledVersion');
+    $appliedMigrationsKey = Pdk::get('settingKeyAppliedMigrations');
+
+    $settingsRepository->store($installedVersionKey, '1.1.0');
+    $settingsRepository->store($appliedMigrationsKey, null);
+
+    // The failing one sorts first by id, so the other only runs if failure does not halt the pass.
+    \MyParcelNL\Pdk\Tests\Bootstrap\MockMigrationService::addUpgradeMigration(
+        \MyParcelNL\Pdk\Tests\Bootstrap\MockFailingTimestampedMigration::class
+    );
+    \MyParcelNL\Pdk\Tests\Bootstrap\MockMigrationService::addUpgradeMigration(
+        \MyParcelNL\Pdk\Tests\Bootstrap\MockTimestampedMigration20260101::class
+    );
+
+    $GLOBALS['__migration_order'] = [];
+
+    Installer::install();
+
+    $order = $GLOBALS['__migration_order'];
+
+    expect($order)
+        ->toContain('2025_01_01_000000_mock_failing')
+        ->toContain('2026_01_01_000000_mock_timestamped');
+
+    // The one that succeeded is still recorded, so only the failure is retried.
+    expect($settingsRepository->get($appliedMigrationsKey))
+        ->toContain('2026_01_01_000000_mock_timestamped')
+        ->not->toContain('2025_01_01_000000_mock_failing');
+
+    unset($GLOBALS['__migration_order']);
+});
+
 it('runs a new timestamp migration even when current version is an RC below installed version', function () {
     // Simulate the WC test environment: installed is 1.3.0, but this build reports 1.3.0-rc.999
     Pdk::set('appInfo', new AppInfo([