Yes — Payfast is reporting an outage.

Where does Uptimus get the official Payfast status?

Uptimus reads the official Payfast status source and normalizes its incidents, maintenance windows and component states. The links below let you verify the provider information directly. Payfast Status Page: https://status.payfast.io Payfast Home Page: https://payfast.io

Payfast says it is up, but I am having issues. What could be wrong?

The official page may not yet reflect a new incident, the problem may affect only a small group of accounts or one region, or it may be local to your device, network, software or ISP. Check the affected components and community reports above, test another connection or device, and contact Payfast support if the problem continues.

How can I check whether Payfast is having issues?

Compare the normalized status and recent incidents on this page with the official provider source. Uptimus keeps official component changes, maintenance, community reports and recent incident details together so you can distinguish a broad outage from a local problem.

How to get notified about Payfast outages?

Add Payfast to your Uptimus workspace, then choose the event types and delivery channels you want to use. Depending on your plan and configuration, alerts can be sent by email, push, webhook or configured integrations for major outages, smaller issues, maintenance and recovery. If Payfast exposes components, you can monitor all of them or restrict official alerts to the products your team uses.

Last checked Oct 26, 11:13 PM UTC

Payfast status

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Latest activity

Last 24 hours

Official status checked
Payfast is experiencing an outage
Official provider status
Oct 26, 11:13 PM UTC
Official incident resolved
AGG | Mobicred Issue — Issue was resolved on serive providers end.
Official provider status
Oct 26, 10:43 AM UTC
Official incident active
Nedbank EFT problems — A problem with Nedbank Payments on both Gateway SiD and Aggregation Instant EFT has been identified. We are in contact with External Partners on the problem
Official provider status
Oct 16, 9:54 AM UTC

Payfast outage reports

0 individual report entries in the last 24 hours. This list includes legacy imports; external source aggregates are shown in the chart.

No recent outage reports

No community outage reports have been submitted for this service in the last 24 hours.

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Payfast status history

Official status observations, not measured service uptime.

Payfast components

Component name	Status
Payfast Aggregation: Cards — 3D Secure status	Up
Payfast Gateway: Cards — 3D Secure status	Up
Payfast Aggregation: Instant EFT — Absa Pay status	Up
Payfast Gateway: SiD — Absa Pay status	Up
Payfast Integrations and APIs — Aggregation Button/Link payments status	Up
Payfast Gateway: Alternative Payment Methods — Apple Pay status	Up
Payfast Aggregation: Alternative Payment Methods — Apple Pay status	Up
Payfast General — General Information status	Up
Payfast Aggregation: Point of Sale — In-store payments status	Up
Payfast Gateway: Point of Sale — In-store payments status	Up

Payfast incident history

Official incidents, early warnings and community reports are identified separately. Early warning history covers only the last 24 hours. Dates use your time zone.

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Incident name	Duration	StartedUTC	Acknowledged	Severity
Official statusResolved	16h 36m	Oct 25, 20266:07 PM UTC	Yes	Major
Official statusResolved	14m	Oct 21, 202610:31 PM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	3h 37m	Oct 20, 20266:31 AM UTC	Yes	Critical
Official statusResolved	45m	Oct 20, 202612:59 AM UTC	Yes	Critical
Official statusUnresolved	253h 21mOngoing	Oct 16, 20269:54 AM UTC	Yes	Major
Official statusResolved	3h 40m	Sep 29, 20269:41 AM UTC	Yes	Major
Official statusResolved	13h	Sep 15, 20266:00 PM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	6h 37m	Sep 14, 20267:55 AM UTC	Yes	Minor

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About Payfast monitoring on Uptimus

Uptimus monitors Payfast through its official status source and normalizes published incidents, maintenance windows and component health into one consistent service status.

This page currently includes 108 monitored components, 67 indexed incidents, 67 maintenance windows and 29 days of known history.

Uptimus is an independent monitoring service and is not affiliated with Payfast. A healthy status does not guarantee that every user, device or region is unaffected.

How Uptimus monitors Payfast

Get notified when Payfast or one of its monitored components reports a major outage or another critical service disruption. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations. The available history contains 67 indexed incidents, giving each alert context beyond the current status. A recent indexed incident was “AGG | Mobicred Issue”.

Get notified about degraded performance, partial impact and smaller incidents that do not represent a complete outage. Uptimus currently tracks 108 Payfast components: 3D Secure, 3D Secure, Absa Pay, Absa Pay. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.

Maintenance notifications

Scheduled maintenance

Planned work published by the official provider.

Immediate Payout Maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Oct 22, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 22, 2026, 09:00 PM UTC
Immediate Payout Maintenance
Resolved
An external partner will be undergoing a maintenance window on 22 October 2026 from 21:00 to 23:00. During this time, Immediate Payouts on the Aggregation Platform will be temporarily disabled. Standard payout services will remain available during this period. We apologise for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.
Started Oct 22, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 22, 2026, 09:00 PM UTC
RCS Main
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Oct 12, 2026, 08:00 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 12, 2026, 09:00 PM UTC
Aggregation Scheduled Maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Oct 12, 2026, 12:00 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 12, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC
Nedbank Maintenance Notice
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Oct 10, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 11, 2026, 04:00 AM UTC
Immediate Payout Maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Oct 10, 2026, 09:00 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 11, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC
Mobicred Maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Oct 4, 2026, 04:00 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 4, 2026, 06:30 AM UTC
Immediate Payout Maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Oct 2, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 3, 2026, 02:00 AM UTC

Receive alerts when Payfast publishes planned, scheduled or active maintenance affecting the service. Uptimus has indexed 67 maintenance windows from the available Payfast history. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.

Recovery notifications

Know when Payfast or an affected component returns to healthy operation after an issue or outage. The current page contains 29 days of known status history, while resolved events remain available for later review. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.

Status messages

Uptimus stores the incident headline published by Payfast and presents it with the normalized service status. The available history contains 67 indexed incidents, giving each alert context beyond the current status. A recent indexed incident was “AGG | Mobicred Issue”.

Status details

Incident and maintenance updates are preserved so you can follow investigations, mitigations and recovery progress. A recent official update preserved by Uptimus reads: “Issue was resolved on serive providers end.”.

Component status filtering

Choose all components or only the Payfast products you use. Official alerts then respect that component selection. Uptimus currently tracks 108 Payfast components: 3D Secure, 3D Secure, Absa Pay, Absa Pay. Filtering changes which official alerts are delivered; it does not remove the provider's events from the public history.

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Comparison

Uptimus vs Downdetector for Payfast

Downdetector public pages are led by user reports. Uptimus combines community activity with official provider incidents, maintenance windows and component health when the source publishes them.

Uptimus vs Downdetector for Payfast
Comparison criteria	Uptimus	Downdetector
Community outage reports for Payfast	Included	Included
Adaptive baseline that separates isolated reports from wider disruption	Included	Included
24-hour report activity and regional outage view	Included	Included
One workspace for websites, provider status pages, Steam games and Android apps and games	Included	Separate product
Email, push and webhook alerts from the same workspace	Included	Separate product
Official incident updates and status timeline for Payfast	Included	User-report led
Component health and maintenance windows kept separate	Included	Limited on public pages

IncludedUser-report led · Limited on public pagesSeparate product

The official status page for Payfast reports degraded performance. An unresolved official incident is listed: “Nedbank EFT problems”. Components reported as affected: Nedbank, Payfast Aggregation: Instant EFT, Payfast Gateway: SiD. 0 reports were recorded for Payfast in the last 24 hours. Last official check: Oct 26, 11:13 PM UTC.

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