Is PayU Africa down?
Last checked just nowNo active incidents. All 52 components operational.
PayU Africa is operational right now. Last checked just now; the most recent incident resolved 11d ago.
Real-time PayU Africa status, recent outages, and incident history: pulled directly from PayU Africa's official status page at payuafrica.statuspage.io every 5 minutes. Pingoru tracks 52 PayU Africa services and has captured 4 incidents in the last 90 days (99.96% uptime). Get email, Slack, Discord, or webhook alerts the moment PayU Africa reports a new incident, free for 3 monitors, no credit card.
Recent outages & incidents
Past 90 days-
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · Oct 27, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC
PayU Merchantportal is currently experiencing difficulties. The support team is busy investigating and will restore service as soon as possible. No transactions are impacted and business flow is NOT impacted.
- investigating · Oct 28, 2026, 02:10 PM UTC
Apologies for the late resolution. The incident was resolved yesterday just before 18h00.
- resolved · Oct 28, 2026, 02:10 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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- South Africa Card Acquiring FNB
Timeline · 3 updates
- investigating · Oct 26, 2026, 08:43 AM UTC
[South Africa] We have been made aware of an issue currently affecting FNB, which may impact transactions made using FNB-issued cards. Acquiring services may also be affected. We are monitoring the situation and will provide updates as more information becomes available.
- monitoring · Oct 26, 2026, 08:49 AM UTC
The issue was identified and remediated by the FNB team, we will continue to monitor.
- resolved · Oct 26, 2026, 11:42 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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Timeline · 2 updates
- identified · Oct 23, 2026, 01:38 AM UTC
[South Africa] Please note that the Shopify plugin is currently unavailable due to unplanned security maintenance. The service will be restored as soon as possible.
- resolved · Oct 23, 2026, 06:46 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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- PayU Staging (Sandbox) environment
Timeline · 2 updates
- identified · Sep 08, 2026, 12:12 PM UTC
Sandbox / Staging environment is currently unavailble. Engineers are investigating to resolve as soon as possible. Please note that this does not affect day-to-day transactions, only testing integration.
- resolved · Sep 08, 2026, 02:18 PM UTC
This incident has been resolved.
Latest: This incident has been resolved.
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Incident record
Since April 2026 · Statuspage by Atlassian · 52 components checked every 5 minutesThe longest incident in the last year, PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Discovery Miles on July 15, 2026, ran for 6 days. 17 maintenance windows announced in the same period.
Most affected components, last 12 months
- South Africa Card Acquiring FNB4
- South Africa DiscoveryMiles4
- South Africa Capitec Pay3
- South Africa Card Acquiring ABSA3
- South Africa RCS3
Latest incidents
- Merchantportal outage
PayU Merchantportal is currently experiencing difficulties. The support team is busy investigating and will restore service as soon as possible. No…
- PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Bank link/3rd party
[South Africa] We have been made aware of an issue currently affecting FNB, which may impact transactions made using FNB-issued cards. Acquiring services may…
- PayU South Africa Service Degradation - Shopify plugin
[South Africa] Please note that the Shopify plugin is currently unavailable due to unplanned security maintenance. The service will be restored as soon as…
- Merchantportal outage ResolvedStarted Oct 27, 2026, 12:56 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 28, 2026, 02:10 PM UTC · 1d 1h
- Started Oct 26, 2026, 08:43 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 26, 2026, 11:42 AM UTC · 2h 59m
- Started Oct 23, 2026, 01:38 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 23, 2026, 06:46 AM UTC · 5h 7m
- Started Sep 08, 2026, 12:12 PM UTC · Resolved Sep 08, 2026, 02:18 PM UTC · 2h 5m