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Recent PayFast Outages and Issues

Follow the recent outages and downtime for PayFast in the table below.

Start Time

Type

Length

Message

Details

November 27, 2023 08:04 UTC

WARN

10 minutes

Partially Degraded Service

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Start Time

November 27, 2023 08:04 UTC

Type WARN
Affected Components

Instant EFT - Standard Bank

Message

Partially Degraded Service

November 23, 2023 17:04 UTC

WARN

about 4 hours

Instant EFT

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Start Time

November 23, 2023 17:04 UTC

Type WARN
Affected Components

Instant EFT - Nedbank

Message

Instant EFT

Details

Identified - An intermittent problem with Instant EFT has been identified and escalated with Upstream Partners. Nov 21, 2023 - 09:00 SAST

November 23, 2023 06:19 UTC

WARN

about 11 hours

Instant EFT

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Start Time

November 23, 2023 06:19 UTC

Type WARN
Affected Components

Other payment methods - Store Cards

Other payment methods - Mobicred

Other payment methods - MoreTyme

Integrations - Integrations and APIs

Credit & Cheque cards - Credit and Cheque Card payments

Credit & Cheque cards - Recurring payments

Instant EFT - Absa

Instant EFT - FNB

Instant EFT - Standard Bank

Instant EFT - African Bank

Instant EFT - Capitec

Instant EFT - Tyme Bank

Instant EFT - Nedbank

Instant EFT - Investec

Instant EFT - Bidvest Bank

Other payment methods - Snapscan

Other payment methods - Masterpass

Other payment methods - Zapper

Other payment methods - Debit Cards

Other payment methods - SCode

Other payment methods - Apple Pay

Other payment methods - Samsung Pay

Other payment methods - Mukuru Cash

Integrations - Shopify

Integrations - WooCommerce

Integrations - Xero

General - Payouts

General - PayFast Dashboard

General - Main Website

General - Developer documentation

Message

Instant EFT

Details

Identified - An intermittent problem with Instant EFT transactions completing has been identified and escalated with Upstream Partners. Nov 21, 2023 - 09:00 SAST

November 23, 2023 05:44 UTC

DOWN

35 minutes

PayFast website unavailable

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Start Time

November 23, 2023 05:44 UTC

Type DOWN
Affected Components

Instant EFT - FNB

Instant EFT - Standard Bank

Other payment methods - Store Cards

Other payment methods - Mobicred

Other payment methods - MoreTyme

Other payment methods - SCode

Other payment methods - Apple Pay

Other payment methods - Samsung Pay

Other payment methods - Mukuru Cash

Integrations - Shopify

Integrations - WooCommerce

Integrations - Integrations and APIs

Instant EFT - Investec

Instant EFT - African Bank

Instant EFT - Bidvest Bank

Other payment methods - Snapscan

Other payment methods - Masterpass

Other payment methods - Zapper

Other payment methods - Debit Cards

Integrations - Xero

Instant EFT - Capitec

Instant EFT - Tyme Bank

Instant EFT - Nedbank

Credit & Cheque cards - Credit and Cheque Card payments

Credit & Cheque cards - Recurring payments

Instant EFT - Absa

General - Payouts

General - PayFast Dashboard

General - Main Website

General - Developer documentation

Message

PayFast website unavailable

Details

Identified - The PayFast website is currently unavailable, this is having a knock-on effect on transactions being unable to be processed. Nov 23, 2023 - 07:15 SAST

November 22, 2023 06:29 UTC

WARN

about 23 hours

Instant EFT

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Start Time

November 22, 2023 06:29 UTC

Type WARN
Affected Components

Credit & Cheque cards - Credit and Cheque Card payments

Message

Instant EFT

Details

Identified - An intermittent problem with Instant EFT transactions completing has been identified and escalated with Upstream Partners. Nov 21, 2023 - 09:00 SAST

2023-11-27 11:04:45 UTC UTC

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PayFast Components and Services

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Name

Status

Details

PayFast Absa

UP See more

PayFast African Bank

UP See more

PayFast Apple Pay

UP See more

PayFast Bidvest Bank

UP See more

PayFast Capitec

UP See more

PayFast Credit and Cheque Card payments

UP See more

PayFast Dashboard

UP See more

PayFast Debit Cards

UP See more

PayFast Developer documentation

UP See more

PayFast FNB

UP See more

PayFast HelpDesk

UP See more

PayFast Integrations and APIs

UP See more

PayFast Investec

UP See more

PayFast Masterpass

UP See more

PayFast Mobicred

UP See more

PayFast MoreTyme

UP See more

PayFast Mukuru Cash

UP See more

PayFast Nedbank

UP See more

PayFast Payouts

UP See more

PayFast Recurring payments

UP See more

PayFast Samsung Pay

UP See more

PayFast SCode

UP See more

PayFast Shopify

UP See more

PayFast Snapscan

UP See more

PayFast Standard Bank

UP See more

PayFast Store Cards

UP See more

PayFast Tyme Bank

UP See more

PayFast WooCommerce

UP See more

PayFast Xero

UP See more

PayFast Zapper

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1 status change in the last 24 hours

PayFast status, last 24 hours:

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6:00 PM
12:00 AM
6:00 AM
12:00 PM
12:00 PM
12:00 AM
12:00 PM
  • Up: 24 hours

  • Warn: 10 minutes

  • Down: 0 minutes

  • Maintenance: 0 minutes

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2,880 status pages

About Our PayFast Status Page Integration

PayFast is a Finance and eCommerce solution that StatusGator has been monitoring since August 2021. Over the past over 2 years, we have collected data on on more than 321 outages that affected PayFast users. When PayFast publishes downtime on their status page, they do so across 31 components and 5 groups using 4 different statuses: up, warn, down, and maintenance which we use to provide granular uptime metrics and notifications.

More than 100 StatusGator users monitor PayFast to get notified when it's down, is under maintenance, or has an outage. This makes it one of the most popular ecommerce services monitored on our platform. We've sent more than 600 notifications to our users about PayFast incidents, providing transparency and peace of mind. You can get alerts by signing up for a free StatusGator account.

If PayFast is having system outages or experiencing other critical issues, red down notifications appear on the status page. In most cases, it means that core functions are not working properly, or there is some other serious customer-impacting event underway.

Warn notifications are used when PayFast is undergoing a non-critical issue like minor service issues, performance degradation, non-core bugs, capacity issues, or problems affecting a small number of users.

PayFast posts separate notifications for planned maintenance work. StatusGator will notify subscribers when PayFast enters a pre-planned maintenance window, keeping you up to date.

Since PayFast publishes a feed of proactive maintenance events on their status page, StatusGator will collect information about these events. Maintenance events for all your services can be viewed within StatusGator as a unified feed.

When PayFast posts issues on their status page, we collect the main headline message and include that brief information or overview in notifications to StatusGator subscribers.

When PayFast has outages or other service-impacting events on their status page, we pull down the detailed informational updates and include them in notifications. These messages often include the current details about how the problem is being mitigated, or when the next update will occur.

Because PayFast has several components, each with their individual statuses, StatusGator can differentiate the status of each component in our notifications to you. This means, you can filter your status page notifications based on the services, regions, or components you utilize. This is an essential feature for complex services with many components or services spread out across many regions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is PayFast down today?

According to its status page PayFast is currently up. You can check the most recent events in the 'Recent Outages and Issues' section above.

How can I get notified when PayFast is not working or have outages?

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How can I find out if PayFast is having issues?

There are two main options: You can check the PayFast status page or you can subscribe to StatusGator for free alerts and notifications when their status page changes.

PayFast status page says the service is up, but I'm having issues. What's wrong?

There may be several reasons for that:

  • An outage that hasn't been communicated yet via the PayFast status page.
  • Some local issues with a small group of accounts on the service side.
  • Technical issues on your side, or problems with your software or ISP.
  • A misconfiguration on your side.

We recommend contacting PayFast customer support while checking everything on your side. You can also try Tweeting at them via @PayFast on Twitter. Or visit their official status page or website:

Where do you get the official PayFast status?

We use the official PayFast status page. Here are links to their status page and other helpful links.

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