Paystack incident
Increased Failure Rates on Pay with Opay transactions
Paystack experienced a minor incident on May 11, 2026, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- resolved May 11, 2026, 12:18 PM UTC
Type: Incident Duration: 3 hours and 10 minutes Affected Components: Pay with Bank May 11, 12:18:50 GMT+0 - Investigating - We are currently experiencing elevated failure rates on our Pay with Opay channel due to a bank downtime. As a result, customers trying to make payments using the Opay channel may be unable to. We are working with our processing partner to resolve this as quickly as possible, and will share updates as soon as we have them. In the mean time, other channels are still operational, and you can complete payments through them. We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause. May 11, 15:28:29 GMT+0 - Resolved - This incident has been resolved.