Status: PayU Africa

All Systems Operational

PayU ? Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
PayU Merchant Portal - South Africa ? Operational
PayU Merchant Portal - Nigeria ? Operational
PayU Payments API ? Operational
PayU Redirect Payment Page ? Operational
PayULink ? Operational
PayU South Africa Reporting ? Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Anti-Fraud ? Operational
Fraud Checks ? Operational
South Africa - 3DSecure ? Operational
Nigeria - 3DSecure ? Operational
Premium 3DSecure Provider ? Operational
Acquiring Links - South Africa ? Operational
South Africa Card Acquiring ABSA ? Operational
South Africa Card Acquiring Nedbank ? Operational
South Africa Card Acquiring SBSA ? Operational
South Africa Card Acquiring FNB ? Operational
South Africa DiscoveryMiles ? Operational
South Africa Capitec Pay Operational
South Africa Stitch EFT ? Operational
South Africa RCS ? Operational
South Africa Visa Checkout ? Operational
South Africa EBucks ? Operational
South Africa PayPal ? Operational
South Africa Smart EFT ? Operational
South Africa Mobicred ? Operational
South Africa MasterPass ? Operational
South Africa ABSA Lending ? Operational
South Africa - PayU Receive Operational
Acquiring Links - Nigeria ? Operational
Nigeria Card Acquiring Zenith ? Operational
Nigeria Card Acquiring Diamond ? Operational
Nigeria Card Acquiring Access ? Operational
Nigeria Card Acquiring GT ? Operational
Nigeria Bank Transfers ? Operational
Nigeria Verve Card Acquiring ? Operational
Acquiring Links - Kenya Operational
Kenya Card Acquiring KCB ? Operational
Kenya Card Acquiring Equity ? Operational
Kenya mPesa Operational
Kenya Airtel Money Operational
Kenya Equitel Operational
Kenya Mobile Banking Operational
Acquiring Links - Uganda Operational
Uganda Card Acquiring KCB Operational
Uganda MTN Mobile Money Operational
Uganda Airtel Money Operational
Acquiring Links - Tanzania Operational
Tanzania Card Acquiring KCB Operational
Tanzania Tigo Pesa Money Operational
Tanzania Airtel Money Operational
Acquiring Links - Ethiopia Operational
Ethiopia Card Acquiring MCB Operational
Acquiring Links - Zimbabwe Operational
Zimbabwe Card Acquiring MCB Operational
PayU Staging (Sandbox) environment Operational
Treasury Settlement Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Treasury Settlement service ? Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Operational
Degraded Performance
Partial Outage
Major Outage
Maintenance
Major outage
Partial outage
No downtime recorded on this day.
No data exists for this day.
had a major outage.
had a partial outage.
May 18, 2025

No incidents reported today.

May 17, 2025
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
May 17, 21:26 CAT
Monitoring - ABSA found an routing issue which they corrected. We will be monitoring closely from our side to make sure traffic returns back to normal.
May 17, 19:42 CAT
Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
May 17, 17:56 CAT
Identified - We are currently in contact with ABSA and working with them to find the source of the problem.
May 17, 17:31 CAT
Investigating - [South Africa]
Card transactions are currently being affected.
Engineers are investigating.

May 17, 16:53 CAT
May 16, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 15, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 14, 2025
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
May 14, 22:19 CAT
Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
May 14, 21:10 CAT
Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
May 14, 20:16 CAT
Investigating - [South Africa]
Card transactions are currently being affected.
Engineers are investigating.

May 14, 19:53 CAT
May 13, 2025
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
May 13, 15:19 CAT
Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
May 13, 15:06 CAT
Investigating - PayU has been informed by the Internet service Provider that there is an internet connectivity issue. This is affecting the PayU staging/testing environment.
Customers will not be able to access test environment API endpoints.
Engineers are investigating and more information will be share as soon as possible.

May 13, 14:14 CAT
May 12, 2025
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
May 12, 17:00 CAT
Investigating - [South Africa]
Card transactions are currently being affected on PayU's SANDBOX / Staging environment that will affect card transaction testing.

Please note that this issue does not apply to our Production environment in any way.
Engineers are investigating.

May 12, 16:06 CAT
May 11, 2025
Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
May 11, 05:50 CAT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
May 11, 01:50 CAT
Scheduled - [South Africa]
3D Secure transactions are currently being affected due to Bankserv maintenance that started 00h30. We have just been informed that this may take up and untill 05h00.

May 11, 01:49 CAT
May 10, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 9, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 8, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 7, 2025
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
May 7, 08:29 CAT
Update - We are still observing high failure raters for card processing. No change yet.
May 7, 01:56 CAT
Update - No further information currently available. Still seeing high failure rates.
May 7, 00:58 CAT
Investigating - [South Africa]
Card transactions are currently being affected. Currently Mastercard transactions seems to be affected more.
Engineers are investigating and reaching out to acquirers.

May 7, 00:12 CAT
May 6, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 5, 2025

No incidents reported.

May 4, 2025

No incidents reported.