PayFast experienced a major incident on April 18, 2026 affecting Absa Pay and Absa Pay, lasting 23h 34m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Absa PayAbsa Pay
Update timeline
- identified Apr 18, 2026, 06:32 AM UTC
A problem with Absa Pay transactions on the Aggregation and Gateway platforms has been identified. We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.
- monitoring Apr 18, 2026, 09:08 AM UTC
Absa Pay is currently disabled as the problem is being attended to.
- resolved Apr 19, 2026, 06:07 AM UTC
Absa Pay problems have been resolved on both the Aggregation and Gateway platforms.