PayU Service Degradation: Mastercard
- investigating
High failure rates observes for Mastercard transactions through 3DS. We are monitoring the situation and will provide feedback.
- resolved
This incident has been resolved.
52 recorded Payu Africa incidents since May 2025, with official updates, affected components, duration and resolution information.
High failure rates observes for Mastercard transactions through 3DS. We are monitoring the situation and will provide feedback.
This incident has been resolved.
[PayU South Africa] Discovery Miles transactions are currently being affected. Seems mainly affecting the mobile flow. Engineers are investigating with Discovery.
This incident has been resolved.
[South Africa] Please note PayU has received word from Capitec that they are having issues with their bank App. This affects all Capitec Pay transactions. We are currently in touch with Capitec to ensure we can provide updates as soon as they are available.
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
This incident has been resolved.
[PayU South Africa] Discovery Miles transactions are currently being affected. Payers using Disco Miles payment method are not able to complete transactions successfully. Engineers are investigating with Discovery.
We noted recovery this morning, we will continue to monitor. Transactions are processing normally currently.
This incident has been resolved.
[PayU South Africa] Capitec Pay are currently experiencing payment issues [Severity 1]. The Capitec team is investigating, and we will keep you updated as they progress.
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
The Capitec Pay service has recovered. They are monitoring it closely.
This incident has been resolved.
We're experiencing an elevated level of API errors and are currently looking into the issue.
We are currently experiencing problems renewing our Staging public certificates. We are actively busy trying to resolve this. The test environment is still accessible but will give certificate expiry warnings.
Staging certificate issues has been resolved. We will keep a eye on things.
This incident has been resolved.
[South Africa] Please note PayU is experiencing a degradation of Capitec Pay payment method. The Capitec Pay transactions remain in a Processing state. Engineers are investigating to resolve as soon as possible.
A fix was applied, we have noted significant improvement on Capitec Pay transactions being completed in normal times.
This incident has been resolved.
[PayU South Africa] Discovery Miles transactions are currently being affected. Engineers are investigating with Discovery.
We have noted that transactions are being completed. We will continue to monitor
[South Africa] Please note PayU has received word from Mobicred that they are having issues with their payments API. This affects all Mobicred transactions. We are constantly in touch with Mobicred to ensure we can provide updates as soon as they are available.
Mobicred has confirmed that their services are back to normal state.
PayU is aware of 3DSecure processing issues currently being experienced via Bankserv. Our Engineers are in contact with Bankserv and will advise.
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
We have noted significant improvement, we will continue to monitor.
This incident has been resolved.
Nedbank has informed us of the current ongoing issue affecting Nedbank issued cards causing high decline rates. The Nedbank team also informed us their technical teams are working on resolving the issue. More updates to come as they become available.
Nedbank has confirmed the issues was resolved
[PayU South Africa] Discovery Miles transactions are currently being affected. Engineers are investigating with Discovery.
This incident has been resolved.
[South Africa] Transactions are currently being affected for RCS customers. Engineers are investigating.
This incident has been resolved.
[South Africa] Card transaction are currently being affected. Engineers are investigating.
We have noted recovery in transaction processing, and transactions are currently completing successfully. We will continue to monitor the environment.
This incident has been resolved.
[South Africa] Please note PayU is experiencing a degradation of service in its credit card transactions. Engineers are investigating to resolve as soon as possible.
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
A fix was applied to address the issue. Bank card transactions are processing normally.
Card transactions are currently being affected after earlier maintenance. We are currently investigating.
Card processing has been fully restored. We will keep monitoring.
Payflex has informed us that are having system issues. They have confirmed that they will provide more information as it becomes available.
The payment provider has confirmed resolution of the issues.
We have noted a spike in failures on FNB platform issues. The team is in touch with the bank to get more information on the issue. We will provide more information as soon as we receive it.
The issuer has confirmed that they are currently investigating the issue. PayU will keep you posted.
We are noticing steady recovery on the FNB transactions. We will continue to monitor.
We will monitor for an hour to ensure full recovery.
We have noted a spike in errors again, we will continue to engage with FNB. We will provide more detail as we receive it.
We have received confirmation from the bank that the issue has ben resolved.
This incident has been resolved.
[PayU South Africa] Discovery Miles transactions are currently being affected. Engineers are investigating with Discovery.
Incident has been reported to Discovery to investigate.
Transactions seem to be processing successfully now. Will continue to monitor for now.
This incident has been resolved.
Card transactions for merchants using SBSA acquiring may be temporarily impacted during this period. Transactions on SBSA-issued cards are expected to process as normal, although they are not entirely exempt from potential disruption.
This incident has been resolved.