Incident History for Payfast

The Nedbank EFT incident affecting Payfast Aggregation Instant EFT and Payfast Gateway SiD has been resolved.

The Payfast Gateway card processing incident affecting Absa, Nedbank, and Standard Bank transactions has been resolved.

Payfast Gateway is investigating intermittent transaction processing issues affecting card transactions routed to Absa, Nedbank, and Standard Bank.

The Mobicred issue affecting Payfast Aggregation alternative payment methods has been resolved on the service provider's end.

Scheduled maintenance for Immediate Payouts on the Aggregation Platform has been completed.

Scheduled maintenance for Immediate Payouts on the Aggregation Platform is now in progress, temporarily disabling Immediate Payouts.

Immediate Payout maintenance will begin as scheduled in 60 minutes, temporarily disabling Immediate Payouts on the Aggregation Platform.

Immediate Payouts on the Aggregation Platform will be temporarily disabled during scheduled partner maintenance on 22 October 2026 from 21:00 to 23:00 SAST.

The Payfast gateway card processing outage affecting Absa, Nedbank and Standard Bank transactions has been resolved.

Intermittent transaction processing issues are affecting card transactions routed to Absa, Nedbank and Standard Bank while teams investigate the root cause.

The incident affecting the Aggregation Main Website (external host) has been resolved.

A fix has been implemented for the unavailable Aggregation Main Website and monitoring is underway.

The Aggregation Main Website is currently unavailable while Payfast and external partners actively investigate the issue.

The Nedbank card processing connectivity incident affecting Payfast Gateway card transactions has been resolved.

Payfast continues investigating connectivity issues with Nedbank Acquiring causing failed or delayed Nedbank card transactions.

Payfast is investigating connectivity issues with Nedbank Acquiring causing failed or delayed Nedbank card transactions.

The scheduled maintenance for RCS store card transactions has been completed.

Scheduled maintenance for RCS store card transactions is now in progress, intermittently affecting Payfast store card processing.

RCS store card transaction maintenance begins as scheduled in 60 minutes, intermittently affecting Payfast store card processing.

RCS store card transaction processing will be intermittently affected during scheduled maintenance on 12 October 2026.

The scheduled aggregation maintenance has been completed.

The scheduled Nedbank card transaction maintenance on Payfast Aggregation and Gateway platforms has been completed.

Nedbank card transaction maintenance on Aggregation and Gateway platforms is currently in progress.

Nedbank card transaction maintenance on Aggregation and Gateway platforms begins in 60 minutes as scheduled.

Nedbank Acquiring scheduled maintenance on 11 October 2026 may intermittently affect card payment transactions on Aggregation and Gateway platforms.

Scheduled Immediate Payout maintenance on the Aggregation Platform has been completed.

Immediate Payout maintenance on the Aggregation Platform is currently in progress.

Immediate Payouts maintenance on the Aggregation Platform begins as scheduled in 60 minutes.

Immediate Payouts on the Aggregation Platform will be disabled during scheduled maintenance from 10 October 23:00 to 11 October 05:00 SAST.

Scheduled Mobicred maintenance has been completed and affected Payfast payment methods are restored.