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Payfast Outage History

Uptime record, past incidents, and downtime history for Payfast.

Checking current status...
21.7% uptime over 46 days
99.9% ✗ 99.5% ✗ 99% ✗ 95% ✗

90-Day Trend

Mar 28May 12

Monthly Uptime

Month Uptime Days Tracked Days with Issues
May 2026 25% 12 9
April 2026 23.3% 30 23
March 2026 0% 4 4

Uptime is calculated from daily worst-status snapshots. A day with any non-operational status counts as a day with issues.

Daily Status (Last 46 Days)

Mar 28 Today
Operational Degraded Partial Outage Major Outage Maintenance No Data

Incident History

May 2026
Standard Bank EFT payments
maintenance

Started: May 4, 2:44 PM

identified
Standard Bank EFT payments are currently disabled, the payment option is under maintenance.
May 4, 2:44 PM
April 2026
POS processing problems
critical

Started: Apr 23, 11:54 AM

identified
An issue with Point-of-Sale (POS) transactions has been identified. Team are in contact with External Partners on the matter.
Apr 23, 11:54 AM
Absa Pay failures
major

Started: Apr 18, 6:32 AM

monitoring
Absa Pay is currently disabled as the problem is being attended to.
Apr 18, 9:08 AM
identified
A problem with Absa Pay transactions on the Aggregation and Gateway platforms has been identified. We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.
Apr 18, 6:32 AM
March 2026
Phishing email
minor

Started: Mar 27, 7:58 AM

identified
We’re aware of a fraudulent email currently being sent to consumers, requesting confirmation of card details and urging recipients to click a link. This email is not from Payfast. It is a phishing scam and should be deleted immediately. This matter has been escalated to our internal security teams and reported to the relevant authorities. To learn more about how to spot suspicious emails and keep your account safe, read this article: https://support.payfast.help/portal/en/kb/articles/su...
Mar 27, 7:58 AM
April 2025
NPO donation page under maintenance
minor

Started: Apr 29, 9:58 AM

monitoring
The charity donation page has been disabled. Donations to NPO's are still available via the relevant merchant integrations.
Apr 29, 9:58 AM
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