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As of 03:30 UTC on 12 November 2026, Payfast's status page reports minor issues.

Last problem
Going on now
Problems, last 30 days
2 (2 critical)
Typical incident
11 days
Longest in 90 days
11 days · 16 Oct

GW | MAP maintenance

Critical

Started 3 days ago, affecting General Information, Gateway MAP, General Maintenance Gateway (non Product specific), FNB.

Read the updates on status.payfast.io ↗

Uptime

Payfast, last 30 days

48.77 %

100%50%0%
Oct 14 Today

Biggest dip: Payfast, 285.5 h of critical on Oct 16.

Incidents

Started in the last 7 days

1

210
FSSMTWToday

This week Week before

Latest: Payfast, critical on Nov 9.

Recovery

Median time back online

285 h 31 min

11 days0
30 days ago Today

0 of 1 were over within an hour. Each dot is one incident; the dashed line is the median.

Components 98

4 with issues, 1 under maintenance

Payfast Aggregation: Instant EFT 7 parts
  • Absa Pay
  • Bidvest Bank
  • Capitec Pay
  • FNB
  • Investec
  • Nedbank
  • Standard Bank
General 24 parts
  • General Information Issue
  • Help Desk
  • Main Website (external host)
  • Aggregation App
  • Aggregation Callbacks/ITN
  • Aggregation Developer Documents
  • Aggregation Donation Page for NPO's
  • Aggregation Emails
  • Aggregation Immediate Payouts
  • Aggregation Merchant Dashboard
  • Aggregation New User payments
  • Aggregation Payouts Maintenance
  • Aggregation Processing (non Payment method specific)
  • Aggregation Reconciliation Reports
  • Aggregation Refunds
  • Aggregation Sandbox (test platform)
  • Gateway Developer Documents
  • Gateway email processing
  • Gateway MAP Issue
  • Gateway PCS Payouts
  • Gateway Processing (non Payment method specific)
  • Gateway Reconciliation Reports
  • General Maintenance Aggregation (non Product specific)
  • General Maintenance Gateway (non Product specific) Issue
Payfast Aggregation: Alternative Payment Methods 12 parts
  • Apple Pay
  • Mobicred
  • MoreTyme
  • Original Debit card payment method
  • Mukuru Cash
  • Payflex
  • Samsung Pay
  • Scan to Pay
  • SCode
  • SnapScan
  • Store Cards (RCS)
  • Zapper
Payfast Gateway: SiD 8 parts
  • Absa Pay
  • Bidvest Bank
  • Capitec Pay
  • Discovery Bank
  • FNB Issue
  • Investec Bank
  • Nedbank
  • Standard Bank
Payfast Gateway: Alternative Payment Methods 10 parts
  • Apple Pay
  • Mobicred
  • Momopay
  • PayPal
  • Samsung Pay
  • Scan to Pay
  • Store Cards (RCS)
  • Visa Checkout
  • Zapper
  • Google Pay
Payfast Aggregation: Point of Sale 1 part
  • In-store payments
Payfast Gateway: Point of Sale 1 part
  • In-store payments
Payfast Gateway: Cards 11 parts
  • 3D Secure
  • Absa involved transactions
  • American Express involved transactions
  • Bidvest involved transactions
  • Capitec involved transactions
  • Discovery involved transactions
  • FNB involved transactions
  • Investec involved transactions
  • Multi-Currency Pricing
  • Nedbank involved transactions
  • Standard Bank involved transactions
Payfast Aggregation: Cards 13 parts
  • 3D Secure
  • Absa involved transactions
  • Aggregation Card Updates
  • American Express involved transactions
  • Bidvest involved transactions
  • Capitec involved transactions
  • Discovery involved transactions
  • FNB involved transactions
  • Investec involved transactions
  • Multi-Currency Pricing
  • Nedbank involved transactions
  • Recurring Payments
  • Standard Bank involved transactions
Integrations and APIs 11 parts
  • Aggregation Button/Link payments
  • Aggregation Shopify
  • Aggregation WooCommerce
  • Aggregation Xero
  • Gateway Core3
  • Gateway PayBatch
  • Gateway PayBill
  • Gateway PayHost
  • Gateway PayWeb3
  • Gateway Shopify
  • Gateway WooCommerce

Last 90 days

3 incidents in 48 days tracked · no reported issues 67.4% of the time · typical incident 11 days

Aug 15 Today (UTC)

Recent incidents

Times in UTC

  1. Maintenance
     Aggregation Scheduled Maintenance 5 h
  2. Maintenance
     Immediate Payout Maintenance 2 h
  3. Critical
     Nedbank EFT problems and 3 more 11 days
  4. Maintenance
     RCS Main 1 h
  5. Maintenance
     Aggregation Scheduled Maintenance 3 h
  6. Maintenance
     Immediate Payout Maintenance and 1 more 6 h 59 min
  7. Maintenance
     Mobicred Maintenance 2 h 30 min
  8. Maintenance
     Immediate Payout Maintenance 4 h
  9. Major outage
     GW Processing Impacted 3 h 43 min
All incidents on status.payfast.io ↗

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