PayFast incident

Bidvest Acquirer Outage

Resolved after 10 hours 20 minutes, affecting Bidvest involved transactions, on February 2, 2026.

identified Feb 02, 2026, 02:09 PM UTC

A problem affecting Bidvest Acquiring merchants has been identified on Gateway. Teams are busy engaging with External partners on the matter.

Started
Feb 02, 2026, 02:09 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 03, 2026, 12:29 AM UTC
Duration
10h 20m
Detected by Pingoru
Feb 02, 2026, 02:09 PM UTC

Affected components

Bidvest involved transactions

Update timeline

  1. identified Feb 02, 2026, 02:09 PM UTC

    A problem affecting Bidvest Acquiring merchants has been identified on Gateway. Teams are busy engaging with External partners on the matter.

  2. resolved Feb 03, 2026, 12:29 AM UTC

    This problem has been resolved for Gateway Bidvest merchants.

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