PayFast Status

System Status

All Systems Operational

Payments :: Credit & Cheque Cards Operational

Payments :: Instant EFT Operational

ABSA Operational

Capitec Operational

FNB Operational

Investec Operational

Nedbank Operational

Standard Bank Operational

Payments :: mobicred Operational

Payments :: Debit Cards Operational

Payments :: Masterpass Operational

Payments :: SCode Operational

Operations :: Dashboard Operational

Operations :: Payouts Operational

Integrations & APIs Operational

Website :: Main Site Operational

Website :: Developer Site Operational

Helpdesk Operational

Operational

Degraded Performance

Partial Outage

Major Outage

Maintenance

Scheduled Maintenance

Masterpass Emergency Maintenance Jul 26, 23:45 - Jul 27, 01:45 SAST

Masterpass upstream services will be undergoing emergency firewall maintenance. During this time Masterpass and payments via debit cards will not be possible. All other payment methods will be available.
Posted on Jul 24, 13:49 SAST

PayFast Network Maintenance Aug 15, 18:00-20:00 SAST

PayFast will be performing network maintenance in our Cape Town Datacenter.
Over the course of maintenance window, there may be some minor packet loss
Posted on Aug 14, 10:53 SAST

Past Incidents

Aug 15, 2020

No incidents reported today.

Aug 14, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 13, 2020

Instant EFT payments from Standard Bank unavailable

Resolved - The issue affecting Standard Bank has been resolved and Instant EFT payments from Standard Bank are available again with success rates returning to normal.
Aug 13, 11:23 SAST

Investigating - Instant EFT payments from Standard Bank are currently unavailable. We are investigating the issue.
Aug 13, 09:31 SAST

Aug 12, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 11, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 10, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 9, 2020

ABSA Instant EFT low success rates

Resolved - ABSA success rates have returned to normal.
Aug 9, 16:18 SAST

Monitoring - Instant EFT payments from ABSA currently have low success rates. It appears that this may be related to planned maintenance by ABSA (https://www.absa.co.za/planned-maintenance/) and is affecting a number of users (https://downdetector.co.za/status/absa/). We will monitor the situation.
Aug 9, 13:34 SAST

Aug 8, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 7, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 6, 2020

High failure rates on Instant EFT for ABSA & Nedbank

Resolved - Success rates across ABSA, Nedbank and TymeBank have returned to normal.
Aug 6, 19:02 SAST

Monitoring - There appears to have been an issue affecting transaction authentication / SMS sending for ABSA and Nedbank (and TymeBank). Nedbank success rates have since returned to normal. ABSA is still an issue (https://downdetector.co.za/status/absa/)

We will continue monitoring.
Aug 6, 18:45 SAST

Investigating - We are seeing high failure rates on Instant EFT transactions for ABSA and Nedbank. We are investigating.
Aug 6, 18:26 SAST

Aug 5, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 4, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 3, 2020

FNB Internet Banking down

Resolved - FNB internet banking is back to normal operation and success rates for FNB have returned to normal.
Aug 3, 10:32 SAST

Monitoring - FNB Internet banking is down or highly unresponsive (https://downdetector.co.za/status/fnb/). This will affect any clients wishing to pay via Instant EFT from FNB. All other payment methods are unaffected. We will monitor and advise once regular operation resumes.
Aug 3, 09:08 SAST

Aug 2, 2020

No incidents reported.

Aug 1, 2020

No incidents reported.