Payu Africa has active maintenance.

Where does Uptimus get the official Payu Africa status?

Uptimus reads the official Payu Africa status source and normalizes its incidents, maintenance windows and component states. The links below let you verify the provider information directly. Payu Africa Status Page: https://payuafrica.statuspage.io Payu Africa Home Page: https://corporate.payu.com

Payu Africa 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 Payu Africa support if the problem continues.

How can I check whether Payu Africa 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 Payu Africa outages?

Add Payu Africa 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 Payu Africa exposes components, you can monitor all of them or restrict official alerts to the products your team uses.

Last checked Sep 8, 12:21 AM UTC

Payu Africa status

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Payu Africa service health graph

Service status and report activity over the last 24 hours, in 15-minute intervals. Early warnings and official incidents are shown separately.

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Latest activity

Last 24 hours

Official status checked
Payu Africa has active maintenance
Official provider status
Sep 8, 12:21 AM UTC
Official maintenance active
PayU RCS transaction maintenance — This incident has been resolved.
Official provider status
Jun 9, 4:01 PM UTC

Payu Africa outage reports

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

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Payu Africa status history

Component name	Status
Payu Africa Issuing Links PayU South Africa — ABSA Issuing status	Up
Payu Africa Acquiring Links - Ethiopia — Ethiopia Card Acquiring MCB status	Up
Payu Africa Anti-Fraud — Fraud Checks status	Up
Payu Africa Acquiring Links - Kenya — Kenya Card Acquiring KCB status	Up
Payu Africa Acquiring Links - Nigeria — Nigeria Card Acquiring Zenith status	Up
Payu Africa PayU — PayU Merchant Portal - South Africa status	Up
Payu Africa Acquiring Links - South Africa — South Africa Card Acquiring ABSA status	Up
Payu Africa Acquiring Links - Tanzania — Tanzania Card Acquiring KCB status	Up
Payu Africa Treasury Settlement — Treasury Settlement service status	Up

Payu Africa 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	5h 56m	Jul 15, 20268:13 AM UTC	Yes	Unknown
Official statusResolved	145h 29m	Jul 15, 20266:55 AM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	18h 35m	Jul 14, 20261:39 PM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	12h 19m	Jul 4, 202610:25 PM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	24h 21m	Jun 25, 20261:43 PM UTC	Yes	Major
Official statusResolved	5h 19m	Jun 25, 20269:11 AM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	3h 54m	Jun 24, 20269:01 AM UTC	Yes	Minor
Official statusResolved	2h 49m	Jun 7, 20267:17 AM UTC	Yes	Critical

Scheduled maintenance

Planned work published by the official provider.

PayU South Africa Switch maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Aug 24, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC · Resolved Aug 25, 2026, 01:30 AM UTC
PayU South Africa Credit Card processing maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Aug 10, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC · Resolved Aug 11, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
PayU Planned Maintenance: Sandbox/Staging
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Jul 24, 2026, 01:00 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 24, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC
PayU South Africa Planned Maintenance: Capitec
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Jul 4, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC · Resolved Jul 5, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC
Scheduled System Maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Jun 22, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC · Resolved Jun 23, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Capitec Pay maintenance
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Jun 22, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC · Resolved Jun 23, 2026, 01:01 AM UTC
PayU South Africa Maintenance: Card switch
Resolved
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Jun 17, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC · Resolved Jun 18, 2026, 12:46 AM UTC
PayU RCS transaction maintenance
Maintenance
This incident has been resolved.
Started Jun 9, 2026, 12:20 PM UTC · Ongoing

About Payu Africa monitoring on Uptimus

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

This page currently includes 63 monitored components, 52 indexed incidents, 54 maintenance windows and 14 days of known history.

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

How Uptimus monitors Payu Africa

Get notified when Payu Africa 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 52 indexed incidents, giving each alert context beyond the current status. A recent indexed incident was “PayU Service Degradation: Mastercard”.

Get notified about degraded performance, partial impact and smaller incidents that do not represent a complete outage. Uptimus currently tracks 63 Payu Africa components: ABSA Issuing, Ethiopia Card Acquiring MCB, Fraud Checks, Kenya Card Acquiring KCB. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.

Maintenance notifications

Receive alerts when Payu Africa publishes planned, scheduled or active maintenance affecting the service. Uptimus has indexed 54 maintenance windows from the available Payu Africa history. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.

Recovery notifications

Know when Payu Africa or an affected component returns to healthy operation after an issue or outage. The current page contains 14 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 Payu Africa and presents it with the normalized service status. The available history contains 52 indexed incidents, giving each alert context beyond the current status. A recent indexed incident was “PayU Service Degradation: Mastercard”.

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