User reports
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Near baseline. 0 in the last hour. Typical hour is about 0.
All services / Money
Is Payfast down?
The vendor's status page reports an issue. Our own checks and user reports have not confirmed a problem. Official status: GW | MAP maintenance | First National Bank EFT payments | Immediate Payouts temporarily disabled
Source: the vendor's status page · We are not affiliated with Payfast.
What to try while Payfast is having problems
Estimated fix: Not enough Payfast history yet; similar Money outages lasted 56 min (median, typically 29 min–2 h; 19 outages).
- Avoid repeating payments or trades; check your history first. Cards and ATMs often still work.
Live diagnosis
Is it just me?
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Official · ReportsMinor incident · Near baseline
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Live outage map
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What's broken
Recent reports
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No public reports yet.
Our checks
Reaching it
Last checked 2 hr ago. Last stored result reached it in 161 ms.
Official status
Minor incident
GW | MAP maintenance | First National Bank EFT payments | Immediate Payouts temporarily disabled Official status page
Reports and checks
Numbers behind the chart
| Time (UTC) | Reports | Baseline | Latency | Failed checks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:45 | 0 | 0.0 | 219 ms | 0 |
| 08:45 | 0 | 0.0 | 194 ms | 0 |
| 11:00 | 0 | 0.0 | 169 ms | 0 |
| 13:00 | 0 | 0.0 | 190 ms | 0 |
| 15:00 | 0 | 0.0 | 195 ms | 0 |
| 17:00 | 0 | 0.0 | 167 ms | 0 |
| 19:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 222 ms | 0 |
| 21:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 187 ms | 0 |
| 23:15 | 0 | 0.0 | 189 ms | 0 |
| 01:30 | 0 | 0.0 | 175 ms | 0 |
| 03:30 | 0 | 0.0 | 161 ms | 0 |
Reliability
100%Uptime · 30 days
100%Uptime · 90 days
1 / 1Outages · 30 / 90 days
27 h 26 minAverage outage
100% uptime · No user reports in the last 24h
90 days ago → today. Uptime is from our own HTTP checks; outages are incidents that lasted long enough to list. We have 8 days of data so far, so the 90-day numbers fill in over time.
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Past outages
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About Payfast
Payfast is listed in our Money category and checked at payfast.io. Discover our secure, highly efficient online payment gateway. Start accepting international payments with ease when you sign up with Payfast by Network.
Payfast publishes an official status page at status.payfast.io; when we can read it, its incident level is folded into the status shown here.
What usually goes wrong with money services: login and two-factor problems, payments or transfers failing, and app errors.
Measured uptime from our checks: 100% over 8 days of checks. We logged 1 public incident since monitoring began 8 days ago.
Response time over the last 24 hours: 188 ms average, 161–222 ms range across 12 successful checks.
Questions
Is Payfast down right now?
The vendor's status page reports an issue. Our own checks and user reports have not confirmed a problem. Official status: GW | MAP maintenance | First National Bank EFT payments | Immediate Payouts temporarily disabled
When was Payfast last down?
The most recent public incident we recorded started 2026-11-09 and lasted 27 h 26 min. 1 incident since monitoring began 8 days ago.
What is Payfast's uptime?
From our own checks: 100% over 8 days of checks.
How fast does Payfast respond?
188 ms on average over the last 24 hours (161–222 ms).
Does Payfast have an official status page?
Yes, at https://status.payfast.io.
Payfast not working for me but the status is fine. What now?
It is usually local: try another browser or the app, switch between Wi-Fi and mobile data, and clear the cache. For money services, watch for login and two-factor problems, payments or transfers failing, and app errors. If many people report Payfast here at once, the problem is on Payfast's side.
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