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Payfast General

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Payfast Aggregation: Instant EFT

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Active Incidents

FNB EFT payments
Started 15 Sep 2025 10:37:05 (14 hours ago), still ongoing
Minor Incident
Identified
FNB
FNB

An issue with FNB EFT payments has been identified.

Buyers need to log into their FnB profiles and remove a pop-up that is occurring for FnB accounts. Once the pop-up with Terms and Conditions is removed, the transaction will process.

NPO donation page under maintenance
Started 29 Apr 2025 09:58:44 (5 months ago), still ongoing
Incident without Impact
Monitoring
Aggregation Donation Page for NPO's

The charity donation page has been temporarily disabled for maintenance. Donations to NPO's are still available via the relevant merchant integrations

Recently Resolved Incidents

Gateway MAP & Aggregation Merchant Dashboard problems
Started 15 Sep 2025 06:20:25 (19 hours ago), resolved 15 Sep 2025 08:37:04 (16 hours ago)
Major Incident
Resolved
Aggregation Merchant Dashboard
Gateway MAP

Gateway MAP and Aggregation Merchant dashboard are currently experiencing issues at the moment. Teams are attending to the matter at hand.

Payfast Outage Survival Guide

A step-by-step guide to help you survive a Payfast outage
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    Payfast Components

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    Payfast General

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    Payfast Credit & Cheque cards

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    Help Desk
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    Recurring payments
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    Main Website (external host)
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    Absa involved transactions
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    Aggregation Callbacks/ITN
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    Bidvest involved transactions
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    Aggregation Developer Documents
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    Capitec involved transactions
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    Discovery involved transactions
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    Aggregation Donation Page for NPO's
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    NPO donation page under maintenance
    Started 29 Apr 2025 09:58:44 (5 months ago), still ongoing
    Incident without Impact
    Monitoring
    Aggregation Donation Page for NPO's

    The charity donation page has been temporarily disabled for maintenance. Donations to NPO's are still available via the relevant merchant integrations

    Aggregation Emails
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    FNB involved transactions
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    Aggregation Immediate Payouts
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    Aggregation Merchant Dashboard
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    Gateway MAP & Aggregation Merchant Dashboard problems
    Started 15 Sep 2025 06:20:25 (19 hours ago), resolved 15 Sep 2025 08:37:04 (16 hours ago)
    Major Incident
    Resolved
    Aggregation Merchant Dashboard
    Gateway MAP

    Gateway MAP and Aggregation Merchant dashboard are currently experiencing issues at the moment. Teams are attending to the matter at hand.

    Standard Bank involved transactions
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    Tyme Bank involved transactions
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    Aggregation New User payments
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    Aggregation Payouts
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    Aggregation Reconciliation Reports
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    Aggregation Refunds
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    Aggregation Sandbox (test platform)
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    Gateway Developer Documents
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    Gateway MAP
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    Gateway MAP & Aggregation Merchant Dashboard problems
    Started 15 Sep 2025 06:20:25 (19 hours ago), resolved 15 Sep 2025 08:37:04 (16 hours ago)
    Major Incident
    Resolved
    Aggregation Merchant Dashboard
    Gateway MAP

    Gateway MAP and Aggregation Merchant dashboard are currently experiencing issues at the moment. Teams are attending to the matter at hand.

    Gateway PCS Payouts
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    Gateway Reconciliation Reports
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    Gateway email processing
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    General Maintenance Aggregation (non Product specific)
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    General Maintenance Gateway (non Product specific)
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    Payfast Integrations and APIs

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    Aggregation Button/Link payments
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    Aggregation Shopify
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    Aggregation Xero
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    Gateway Core3
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    PayPal
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    Gateway PayHost
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    Payfast Aggregation: Alternative Payment Methods

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    Mobicred
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    Original Debit card payment method
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    Mukuru Cash
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    Samsung Pay
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    Scan to Pay
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    SCode
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    Payfast Aggregation: Cards

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    FNB involved transactions
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    Aggregation Card Updates
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    Payfast Aggregation: Instant EFT

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    African Bank
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    FNB
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    FNB EFT payments
    Started 15 Sep 2025 10:37:05 (14 hours ago), still ongoing
    Minor Incident
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    FNB
    FNB

    An issue with FNB EFT payments has been identified.

    Buyers need to log into their FnB profiles and remove a pop-up that is occurring for FnB accounts. Once the pop-up with Terms and Conditions is removed, the transaction will process.

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    Payfast Aggregation: Point of Sale

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    Payfast Gateway: Alternative Payment Methods

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    Scan to Pay
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    Store Cards (RCS)
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    Zapper
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    Payfast Gateway: Cards

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    Payfast Gateway: SiD

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    FNB
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    FNB EFT payments
    Started 15 Sep 2025 10:37:05 (14 hours ago), still ongoing
    Minor Incident
    Identified
    FNB
    FNB

    An issue with FNB EFT payments has been identified.

    Buyers need to log into their FnB profiles and remove a pop-up that is occurring for FnB accounts. Once the pop-up with Terms and Conditions is removed, the transaction will process.

    Investec Bank
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    Payfast Gateway: Point of Sale

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