Payfast Status

All Systems Operational

Credit & Cheque cards Operational

Credit and Cheque Card payments Operational

Recurring payments Operational

Instant EFT Operational

Capitec Operational

FNB Operational

Standard Bank Operational

Absa Operational

Nedbank Operational

Tyme Bank Operational

Investec Operational

African Bank Operational

Bidvest Bank Operational

Other payment methods Operational

Snapscan Operational

Masterpass Operational

Zapper Operational

Debit Cards Operational

Store Cards Operational

Mobicred Operational

MoreTyme Operational

SCode Operational

Apple Pay Operational

Samsung Pay Operational

Mukuru Cash Operational

Integrations Operational

Shopify Operational

WooCommerce Operational

Xero Operational

Integrations and APIs Operational

General Operational

Payouts Operational

HelpDesk Operational

Payfast Dashboard Operational

Main Website (external host) Operational

Developer documentation Operational

Operational

Degraded Performance

Partial Outage

Major Outage

Maintenance

Past Incidents

Dec 2, 2023

No incidents reported today.

Dec 1, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 30, 2023

RSAWeb Maintenance

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Nov 30, 05:00 SAST

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Nov 30, 04:01 SAST

Scheduled - One of our External Partners will be performing Maintenance during this hour from 4am-5am.

Payments may be intermittently affected during this time.
Nov 27, 14:52 SAST

Nov 29, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 28, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 27, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 26, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 25, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 24, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 23, 2023

Instant EFT

Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Nov 23, 23:03 SAST

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

Payfast unavailable

Resolved - This issue has been resolved; Full functionality has returned for the Payfast website and transactions are being processed.
Nov 23, 08:16 SAST

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

Nov 22, 2023

Standard Bank Issuing

Resolved - Standard bank issuing is operational again. We will continue to monitor the situation.
Nov 22, 08:25 SAST

Identified - We have detected a problem with Standard Bank issued cards which started at 05h10 this morning.
We are in contact with our upstream partners for resolution.
Nov 22, 08:01 SAST

Database Maintenance

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Nov 22, 02:31 SAST

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Nov 22, 02:00 SAST

Scheduled - Payfast will be doing Database maintenance at 2am on 22 November 2023 for 30 minutes.
Payments will be affected during this period.
Nov 21, 18:00 SAST

Nov 21, 2023

Nov 20, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 19, 2023

No incidents reported.

Nov 18, 2023

No incidents reported.