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Payfast Incident History

Payfast is experiencing degraded performance with some services running slower than normal.

Last checked Jul 22, 2026 5:21 AM UTC from Payfast's official status page

Incident History

Showing incidents from the last 15 days

Report: "Mastercard 3D Secure Issues"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

A problem during the 3D Secure leg of card transactions has been identified; Specifically Mastercard issued credit cards are failing authentication currently. This is impacting card processing on both the Aggregation and Gateway platforms. We are in contact with External Providers on the issue.

Report: "Capitec Pay Outage"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

identified

A problem with Capitec Pay transactions on both the Aggregation and Gateway Platforms has been identified. We are in contact with External Partners on the problem.

Report: "Aggregation testing platform (Sandbox)"

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resolved

This incident has been resolved.

identified

The Aggregation testing platform (Sandbox) is currently down. Users may experience intermittent issues with their tests for the moment.