Is Paystack down?
Critical outage reported
From status.paystack.com · checked 4 minutes ago · every 5 minutes
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As of 03:36 UTC on 12 November 2026, Paystack's status page reports a critical outage.
- Last problem
- Going on now
- Problems, last 30 days
- 13 (10 critical)
- Typical incident
- 4 h
- Longest in 90 days
- 2 days · 23 Oct
Nigeria: Degraded Performance on Direct Debit
CriticalStarted 7 hours ago, affecting Direct Debit.
Read the updates on status.paystack.com ↗Uptime
Paystack, last 30 days
35.27 %
Biggest dip: Paystack, 69.5 h of critical on Oct 23.
Incidents
Started in the last 7 days
1
This week Week before
Latest: Paystack, critical on Nov 11.
Recovery
Median time back online
3 h 40 min
1 of 12 were over within an hour. Each dot is one incident; the dashed line is the median.
Components 43
1 with issues, 1 under maintenance
Platform & Infrastructure 7
parts 
- API
- Website
- Webhooks
- Refunds
- Email Exports
- Plugins & Integrations
- Blog
COTE D'IVOIRE 2
parts
- Cards
- Mobile Money
EGYPT 1
part
- Cards
GHANA 2
parts
- Bank
- Mobile Money
KENYA 3
parts
- Airtel Money
- Bank
- M-PESA
GHANA 5
parts
- Apple Pay
- Cards
- Mobile Money
- Bank Transfer
- USSD
Merchant Tools 3
parts
- Checkout
- Dashboard
- Payment Page
KENYA 5
parts
- Airtel Money
- Apple Pay
- Cards
- M-PESA
- Pesalink
NIGERIA 2
parts
- Bank
- Managed Accounts
SOUTH AFRICA 2
parts
- Bank
- Bank Account Verification
NIGERIA 6
parts
- Apple Pay
- Bank Transfer
- Pay with Bank
- Cards Maintenance
- Direct Debit Critical
- USSD
SOUTH AFRICA 5
parts
- Apple Pay
- Cards
- EFT payments
- QR
- Capitec Pay
Last 90 days
23 incidents in 47 days tracked · no reported issues 70.7% of the time · typical incident 4 h
Recent incidents
Times in UTC
- Nigeria: Scheduled Maintenance on Card Transactions and 3 more 3 days
Maintenance - Nigeria: Degraded Performance on Direct Debit 17 h 49 min Critical
- Nigeria: Downtime with Bank Transfers 4 h Critical
- South Africa: Preuahtorization failures 1 h 40 min
Issue - Nigeria: Increased Failures on Verve Card Transactions 1 h 30 min Critical
- Nigeria: Downtime with Bank Transfers and 1 more 37 h 6 min Critical
- Cards is down and 1 more 20 h 15 min Critical
- Website unavailable 2 h 50 min Maintenance
- Card payments requiring 3D Secure verification are failing 1 h 20 min Critical
- Website unavailable 47 h 37 min Maintenance
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