Paystack Outage History

67 incidents recorded over the last 365 days, 42 of them resolved. Durations are measured from when PulsAPI first saw the problem to when it cleared, which is usually longer than the vendor's own figure.

Live Paystack status99.98% uptime history

Every Recorded Paystack Incident

Paystack incidents, newest first, with date, duration and status.
DateIncidentDurationStatus
Nov 18, 2026South Africa: Scan to Pay MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance1h 0mScheduled
Nov 7, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance6h 0mScheduled
Nov 7, 2026Nigeria: Scheduled Maintenance on Card TransactionsScheduled Maintenance8h 0mScheduled
Nov 4, 2026Nigeria: Downtime with Bank Transfers4h 0mResolved
Nov 4, 2026South Africa: Preuahtorization failures1h 40mResolved
Nov 2, 2026Nigeria: Increased Failures on Verve Card Transactions1h 34mResolved
Oct 31, 2026Nigeria: Downtime on transactions with Nigerian-issued cards2h 23mResolved
Oct 30, 2026Nigeria: Downtime with Bank Transfers37h 5mResolved
Oct 29, 2026Nigeria: Increased Failures on Transactions with Ecobank Cards20h 11mResolved
Oct 29, 2026Card payments requiring 3D Secure verification are failing1h 41mResolved
Oct 27, 2026Nigeria: Downtime on transactions with Nigerian-issued cards29 minResolved
Oct 26, 2026Nigeria: Increased Failures on Access Bank Card Transactions1h 44mResolved
Oct 25, 2026Nigeria: Downtime on transactions with Nigerian-issued cards16h 3mResolved
Oct 23, 2026Shopify Apps Not Responding - the engineering team is attending70h 59mResolved
Oct 23, 2026Ghana: MTN System Downtime3h 20mResolved
Oct 22, 2026Website unavailable166h 40mResolved
Oct 19, 2026Ghana: Telecel MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance6h 0mScheduled
Oct 19, 2026Ghana: MTN MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance6h 0mScheduled
Oct 19, 2026Ghana: AirtelTigo Transfer Downtime53h 5mResolved
Oct 18, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance9h 0mScheduled
Oct 18, 2026Scheduled Maintenance on the Paystack BlogScheduled Maintenance48h 0mScheduled
Oct 14, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance9h 0mScheduled
Oct 13, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance9h 0mScheduled
Oct 12, 2026Ghana: Bank transfers Downtime48 minResolved
Oct 11, 2026Ghana: Mpesa System Downtime4h 18mResolved
Oct 11, 2026Nigeria: Increased Card Processing Failures2h 30mResolved
Oct 11, 2026Nigeria: Increased Failures on Card Transactions42 minResolved
Oct 10, 2026South Africa: Capitec Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance3h 0mScheduled
Oct 10, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance6h 0mScheduled
Oct 10, 2026Ghana: Telecel System Downtime16h 45mResolved
Oct 9, 2026Shopify payment failures3h 7mResolved
Oct 8, 2026Nigeria: Increased Card Processing Failures57 minResolved
Oct 6, 2026Nigeria: Increased Card Processing Failures4h 25mResolved
Oct 4, 2026Nigeria: Increased Card Processing Failures3h 55mResolved
Oct 2, 2026Nigeria: Downtime on Bank Transfers29h 12mResolved
Sep 30, 2026Kenya: Bank Transfers Downtime3h 56mResolved
Sep 29, 2026Delays with Outward Transfers24h 43mResolved
Sep 23, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance6h 0mScheduled
Sep 23, 2026Nigeria: Degraded Card Processing31h 24mResolved
Sep 21, 2026South Africa: Capitec Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance1h 0mScheduled
Sep 21, 2026Nigeria: Degraded Performance on Direct Debit16h 17mResolved
Sep 20, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance8h 0mScheduled
Sep 19, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance6h 0mScheduled
Sep 19, 2026Interswitch - Planned MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance9h 0mScheduled
Sep 16, 2026South Africa: Capitec Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance97h 30mScheduled
Sep 15, 2026South Africa: Capitec Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance1h 30mScheduled
Sep 15, 2026GTB Pay with Bank — Payment Failures44 minResolved
Sep 15, 2026Name Enquiry Downtime with Wema Virtual Accounts39 minResolved
Sep 15, 2026GHS Transfer Downtime20 minResolved
Sep 15, 2026Ghana: MTN System Downtime6h 34mResolved
Sep 12, 2026South Africa: Capitec Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance4h 0mScheduled
Sep 11, 2026Ghana: AT Ghana System Downtime72h 9mResolved
Sep 10, 2026Downtime on Paystack Titan accounts36 minResolved
Sep 8, 2026Delayed credits into Wema Bank virtual accounts47h 19mResolved
Sep 7, 2026South Africa: Capitec Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance3h 0mScheduled
Sep 5, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance6h 0mScheduled
Sep 1, 2026South Africa: Nedbank Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance6h 0mScheduled
Sep 1, 2026CIV: Wave MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance30 minScheduled
Aug 31, 2026Nigeria: Delay in Completing Inward Transfers to Paystack Titan accounts2h 1mResolved
Aug 31, 2026Kenya: MPESA System Downtime24h 45mResolved
Aug 31, 2026Nigeria: Delays and Increased Failures for Outward Transfer Processing43 minResolved
Aug 28, 2026South Africa: Increased failure rate for Capitec Pay3h 5mResolved
Aug 26, 2026Increased Failure Rates on Access Bank card transactions40 minResolved
Aug 21, 2026South Africa: Capitec Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance1h 0mScheduled
Aug 19, 2026South Africa: Absa Scheduled MaintenanceScheduled Maintenance1h 0mScheduled
Aug 19, 2026Nigeria: Degraded Performance for Virtual Account Transactions3h 22mResolved
Aug 13, 2026Nigeria: Degraded Performance on Direct Debit50h 56mResolved

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How to Read This Paystack Incident Log

Each row is an incident PulsAPI observed, not a summary written afterwards. The duration is wall-clock time between the first failing check and the first clean one, so it includes the window before Paystack acknowledged anything. Vendor post-mortems typically measure from acknowledgement, which is why their numbers are usually shorter.

Incidents still open have no duration yet and are listed as ongoing rather than being given a running total. The archive covers the last 365 days; anything older has aged out of the window rather than never having happened.

The longest single Paystack outage in this window ran 6d 22h, against a mean recovery of 14h 55m. If you depend on Paystack in a customer-facing path, the longest figure is the one to design around. The mean is what happens on a normal bad day; the maximum is what happens on the worst one.