User reports
0
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?
Finds the most likely layer (the service, your ISP or area, DNS, or your Wi-Fi) and gives two steps to try.
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Our checksReaching it
Official · ReportsMinor incident · Near baseline
DNS (1.1.1.1 · Google)—
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Checks by region
Reachable from all 4 regions we check from.
US East · ORDReachable133 ms · 32 min ago
US West · SJCReachable498 ms · 32 min ago
Europe · AMSReachable60 ms · 32 min ago
Asia-Pacific · KIXReachable271 ms · 32 min ago
Live outage map
No reports in the last 24 hours.
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What's broken
Recent reports
Each row is a time, a coarse place, and a problem type from a new report. Optional notes stay private. Places with fewer than 3 reports in the last 8 days are shown without a location.
No public reports yet.
Our checks
Reaching it
Last checked 32 min ago. Last stored result reached it in 191 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 16 | 0 | 0.0 | 235 ms | 0 |
| Mon 18 | 0 | 0.0 | 170 ms | 0 |
| Mon 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 203 ms | 0 |
| Mon 22 | 0 | 0.0 | 331 ms | 0 |
| Tue 00 | 0 | 0.0 | 211 ms | 0 |
| Tue 02 | 0 | 0.0 | 585 ms | 0 |
| Tue 04 | 0 | 0.0 | 231 ms | 0 |
| Tue 06 | 0 | 0.0 | 175 ms | 0 |
| Tue 09 | 0 | 0.0 | 111 ms | 0 |
| Tue 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 174 ms | 0 |
| Tue 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 225 ms | 0 |
| Tue 15 | 0 | 0.0 | 194 ms | 0 |
| Tue 17 | 0 | 0.0 | 317 ms | 0 |
| Tue 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 236 ms | 0 |
| Tue 22 | 0 | 0.0 | 187 ms | 0 |
| Wed 00 | 0 | 0.0 | 184 ms | 0 |
| Wed 02 | 0 | 0.0 | 224 ms | 0 |
| Wed 05 | 0 | 0.0 | 215 ms | 0 |
| Wed 07 | 0 | 0.0 | 191 ms | 0 |
| Wed 09 | 0 | 0.0 | 189 ms | 0 |
| Wed 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 168 ms | 0 |
| Wed 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 500 ms | 0 |
| Wed 16 | 0 | 0.0 | 186 ms | 0 |
| Wed 18 | 0 | 0.0 | 215 ms | 0 |
| Wed 20 | 0 | 0.0 | 142 ms | 0 |
| Wed 22 | 0 | 0.0 | 241 ms | 0 |
| Thu 00 | 0 | 0.0 | 182 ms | 0 |
| Thu 02 | 0 | 0.0 | 178 ms | 0 |
| Thu 04 | 0 | 0.0 | 190 ms | 0 |
| Thu 06 | 0 | 0.0 | 219 ms | 0 |
| Thu 08 | 0 | 0.0 | 194 ms | 0 |
| Thu 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 169 ms | 0 |
| Thu 13 | 0 | 0.0 | 190 ms | 0 |
| Thu 15 | 0 | 0.0 | 195 ms | 0 |
| Thu 17 | 0 | 0.0 | 167 ms | 0 |
| Thu 19 | 0 | 0.0 | 222 ms | 0 |
| Thu 21 | 0 | 0.0 | 187 ms | 0 |
| Thu 23 | 0 | 0.0 | 189 ms | 0 |
| Fri 01 | 0 | 0.0 | 175 ms | 0 |
| Fri 03 | 0 | 0.0 | 161 ms | 0 |
| Fri 05 | 0 | 0.0 | 201 ms | 0 |
| Fri 07 | 0 | 0.0 | 619 ms | 0 |
| Fri 09 | 0 | 0.0 | 852 ms | 0 |
| Fri 11 | 0 | 0.0 | 444 ms | 0 |
| Fri 12 | 0 | 0.0 | 167 ms | 0 |
| Fri 14 | 0 | 0.0 | 171 ms | 0 |
| Fri 16 | 0 | 0.0 | 549 ms | 0 |
| Fri 18 | 0 | 0.0 | 191 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: 308 ms average, 161–852 ms range across 14 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?
308 ms on average over the last 24 hours (161–852 ms). Latest regional checks: US East 133 ms, US West 498 ms, Europe 60 ms, Asia-Pacific 271 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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