Current Status

Service Under Maintenance

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Components

Absa Pay

Operational

Apple Pay

Operational

Absa Pay

Operational

Apple Pay

Operational

In-store payments

Operational

In-store payments

Operational

3D Secure

Operational

3D Secure

Operational

Aggregation Button/Link payments

Operational

General Information

Operational

Mobicred

Operational

Help Desk

Operational

Absa involved transactions

Operational

Mobicred

Operational

Absa involved transactions

Operational

Aggregation Shopify

Operational

Main Website (external host)

Operational

Bidvest Bank

Operational

MoreTyme

Operational

Bidvest Bank

Operational

Recent Incidents

Capitec Pay Outage

major

May 15, 2026 · resolved May 15

This problem affecting Capitec Pay transactions has been resolved.

Standard Bank EFT payments

maintenance

May 4, 2026

Standard Bank EFT payments are currently disabled, the payment option is under maintenance.

POS processing problems

critical

Apr 23, 2026 · resolved Apr 23

This problem affecting POS transactions has been resolved with full functionality restored to the service on both the Aggregation and Gateway platforms.

Absa Pay failures

major

Apr 18, 2026 · resolved Apr 19

Absa Pay problems have been resolved on both the Aggregation and Gateway platforms.

Phishing email

minor

Mar 27, 2026 · resolved Mar 31

This post is being taken down. For more information on phishing, please visit: https://support.payfast.help/portal/en/kb/articles/suspicious-emails-phishing-scams

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