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Since August 19, 2021, StatusGator has been monitoring PayFast outages, downtime, and service disruptions to provide comprehensive insights into its status history. Over the years, we've tracked and logged service outages and problems reported on the official PayFast Status Page.
Follow the recent outages and downtime for PayFast in the table below. If you're experiencing a problem now, check the current PayFast status or report it.
| Incident Name | Duration | Started | Severity |
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Degraded 3d Secure Processing
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1h 20m |
Warn
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FNB on InstantEFT
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6h 55m |
Warn
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FNB on InstantEFT
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15m |
Warn
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FNB on InstantEFT
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50m |
Warn
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Investec EFT Payments
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1d 13h 55m |
Warn
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Start monitoring for freePayFast (Online payment solutions for businesses in South Africa) is a a Finance and eCommerce solution that StatusGator has been monitoring since August 2021. Over the past over 3 years, we have collected data on on more than 643 outages that affected PayFast users. When PayFast publishes downtime on their status page, they do so across 83 components and 10 groups using 4 different statuses: up, warn, down, and maintenance which we use to provide granular uptime metrics and notifications.
If you're wondering, "Is PayFast down?", or need to know its current status, we've got you covered. Our platform tracks every reported outage, performance issue, and maintenance window to ensure you're informed. Whether PayFast is experiencing a problem now or has recently resolved one, our detailed history keeps you updated.
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 1,400 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 we detect a potential PayFast outage or other issue before it was reported on the official status page we will send an Early Warning Signal notification to StatusGator subscribers. We can often detect issues before they are officially acknowledged by the provider, giving you a head start on resolving any potential problems.
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.
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 whenever a particular component is down. 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.
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