PayFast Status

System Status

All Systems Operational

Payments :: Credit & Cheque Cards Operational

Payments :: Instant EFT Operational

ABSA Operational

African Bank Operational

Bidvest Operational

Capitec Operational

FNB Operational

Investec Operational

Nedbank Operational

Standard Bank Operational

Tyme Bank Operational

Payments :: Mobicred Operational

Payments :: Debit Cards Operational

Payments :: Masterpass Operational

Payments :: Zapper 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

Past Incidents

Jul 29, 2021

No incidents reported today.

Jul 28, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 27, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 26, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 25, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 24, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 23, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 22, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 21, 2021

Scheduled maintenance requiring downtime

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Jul 21, 21:00 SAST

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 21, 20:00 SAST

Scheduled - Various PayFast systems will be undergoing scheduled upgrades and require a small amount of downtime. Projected downtime should be less than 15 minutes during this maintenance window. All payment systems will be affected. Preparations and planning will ensure that any downtime will be kept to a minimum.
Jul 17, 11:39 SAST

Phone calls to the PayFast helpdesk currently intermittent or non-operational.

Resolved - Phone call service has been restored in our customer service department.
Jul 21, 10:33 SAST

Identified - An issue has been identified that is preventing our customer service staff to accept phone calls. Our technical team is working on a fix. PayFast transactional systems are not affected and payments are proceeding.
Jul 21, 10:02 SAST

Jul 20, 2021

Service Degradation

Resolved - Between 14:30 and 15:05, PayFast experienced a degradation to services. which would have resulted in intermittent payment failures.
The cause of this was an attack which was eventually mitigated at the PayFast WAF.
Jul 20, 14:30 SAST

Jul 19, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 18, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 17, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 16, 2021

No incidents reported.

Jul 15, 2021

No incidents reported.