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Payfast General

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Aggregation Donation Page for NPO's
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Active Incidents

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

Immediate Payouts disabled
Started 2 Oct 2025 07:57:22 (3 days ago), resolved 2 Oct 2025 09:16:15 (3 days ago)
Critical Incident
Resolved
Aggregation Immediate Payouts

Immediate Payouts have been disabled for the moment on Aggregation. We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.

Payfast Outage Survival Guide

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    Payfast Components

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    Payfast Credit & Cheque cards

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    Payfast General

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    Help Desk
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    Recurring payments
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    Main Website (external host)
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    Aggregation Callbacks/ITN
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    Aggregation Developer Documents
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    Capitec 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

    Discovery involved transactions
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    Aggregation Emails
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    Aggregation Immediate Payouts
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    Immediate Payouts disabled
    Started 2 Oct 2025 07:57:22 (3 days ago), resolved 2 Oct 2025 09:16:15 (3 days ago)
    Critical Incident
    Resolved
    Aggregation Immediate Payouts

    Immediate Payouts have been disabled for the moment on Aggregation. We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.

    Nedbank involved transactions
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    Aggregation Merchant Dashboard
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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 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 WooCommerce
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    Momo Pay
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    Aggregation Xero
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    Gateway Core3
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    PayPal
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    Payfast Aggregation: Alternative Payment Methods

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    MoreTyme
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    Original Debit card payment method
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    Mukuru Cash
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    Scan to Pay
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    SCode
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    SnapScan
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    Store Cards (RCS)
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    Zapper
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    Payfast Aggregation: Cards

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    3D Secure
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    Absa involved transactions
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    Aggregation Card Updates
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    Payfast Aggregation: Instant EFT

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    Payfast Aggregation: Point of Sale

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    Payfast Gateway: Alternative Payment Methods

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    PayPal
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    Scan to Pay
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    Zapper
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    Payfast Gateway: Cards

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    Payfast Gateway: Point of Sale

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