PayFast experienced a major incident on August 19, 2025 affecting In-store payments and In-store payments, lasting 1h 19m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
In-store paymentsIn-store payments
Update timeline
- identified Aug 19, 2025, 06:11 PM UTC
An issue with POS payments has been identified. We are in contact with External Partners on the matter.
- resolved Aug 19, 2025, 06:20 PM UTC
This problem has been resolved for POS transctions.