Is Paystack Down? Current Status and Outages
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Current Paystack status
Paystack is having a minor outage
IsDown is reporting that Paystack is having issues.
IsDown last checked Paystack status on at . We've received 0 user reports in the past 24 hours.
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Monitoring since Jun 2021
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502 incidents caught
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11 components tracked in real-time
Paystack service health over the last 24 hours
This chart shows the number of user-reported issues for Paystack service health over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. Sign up to get alerts when Paystack is down.
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Paystack Downtime Health — Last 90 Days
In the last 90 days, Paystack had 48 incidents (18 major outages and 30 minor incidents) with a median duration of 10 hours 38 minutes.
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Recent Paystack outages detected
Full incident reports for recent Paystack outages, including timelines, affected components, and resolution details.
about 1 hour
May 20, 2026 at 06:22 AM
about 2 hours
May 19, 2026 at 12:03 PM
| Title | IsDown detected At | Duration |
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We are currently experiencing degraded performance on our transfer service due to downtime affect...
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May 28, 2026 at 10:43 AM UTC
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Ongoing |
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The Central Switch is experiencing a degraded service, causing high resolution times for bank tra...
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May 26, 2026 at 01:46 PM UTC
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about 21 hours |
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We are seeing an increased rate of failure for bank account verification requests. The issue has ...
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May 25, 2026 at 10:48 AM UTC
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about 1 hour |
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We are currently observing an increase in failures on transactions made with Zenith Bank cards. T...
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May 23, 2026 at 10:49 AM UTC
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about 2 hours |
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We're currently experiencing intermittent issues with MTN Mobile Money transactions due to USSD p...
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May 20, 2026 at 08:12 PM UTC
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about 13 hours |
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We are experiencing an increase in failures on inward **(_Pay with Transfer and Dedicated Virtual...
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May 20, 2026 at 10:22 AM UTC
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about 1 hour |
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We are currently observing a higher failure rate on transactions made with **Verve cards**.Our te...
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May 20, 2026 at 10:22 AM UTC
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about 22 hours |
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We are seeing an increase in failures on Paystack Direct Debit, as a result of a provider downtim...
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May 20, 2026 at 09:17 AM UTC
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1 day |
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We are currently experiencing failures in connecting to the central switch in Nigeria. As a resul...
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May 19, 2026 at 04:03 PM UTC
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about 2 hours |
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Customers may experience slight delays in receiving transfers to bank accounts in Nigeria due to ...
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May 13, 2026 at 02:27 PM UTC
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5 days |
Paystack Components Status
Check if any Paystack component is down. View the current status of 8 services and regions.
| Component | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| API status | OK | View details |
| BVN Resolve Service status | OK | View details |
| Dashboard status | OK | View details |
| Payment Page status | OK | View details |
| Transactions status | OK | View details |
| Transfers status | OK | View details |
| Webhooks status | OK | View details |
| Website status | OK | View details |
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About Paystack Status and Outage Monitoring
IsDown has monitored Paystack continuously since June 2021, tracking this Payment Processing for 5 years. Over that time, we've documented 502 outages and incidents, averaging 8.5 per month.
We monitor Paystack's official status page across 11 components organized into 8 groups. IsDown interprets Paystack statuses (operational and incident) to deliver precise health metrics and filter alerts by the components you actually use.
To check if Paystack is down, IsDown combines official status data with user reports for early detection. Vendors often delay acknowledging problems, so user reports help us alert you before the official announcement.
Engineering and operations teams rely on IsDown to track Paystack status and receive verified outage alerts through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, or 20+ other integrations.
How IsDown Monitors Paystack
IsDown checks Paystack's status page every few minutes, across all 11 components. We combine official status data with user reports to detect when Paystack is down, often before the vendor announces it.
When Paystack status changes, IsDown sends alerts to your preferred channels. Filter by severity to skip noise and focus on outages that affect your business.
What you get when monitoring Paystack with IsDown
Track Paystack incidents and downtimes by severity
IsDown checks Paystack official status page for major/minor outages or downtimes. A major outage is when Paystack experiences a critical issue that severely affects one or more services/regions. A minor incident is when Paystack experiences a small issue affecting a small percentage of its customer's applications. An example is the performance degradation of an application. The moment we detect a Paystack outage, we send you an alert and update your dashboard and status page.
Get alerted as soon as users report problems with Paystack
Paystack and other vendors don't always report outages on time. IsDown collects user reports to provide early detection of outages. This way, even without an official status update, you can stay ahead of possible problems.
All the details of Paystack outages and downtimes
IsDown collects all information from the outages published in Paystack status page to provide the context of the outage. If available, we gather the title, description, time of the outage, status, and outage updates. Another important piece of information is the affected services/regions which we use to filter the notifications that impact your business.
Only get alerted on the Paystack outages that impact your business
IsDown monitors Paystack and all their 11 components that can be affected by an outage. IsDown allows you to filter the notifications and status page alerts based on the components you care about. For example, you can choose which components or regions affect your business and filter out all other outages. This way you avoid alert fatigue in your team.
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Paystack Downdetector vs IsDown
Looking for Paystack outage alerts like Downdetector? IsDown monitors Paystack's official status page for verified incident data, not just user reports. Know exactly when Paystack is down, which components are affected, and when service health is restored. Here's why official Paystack status monitoring beats crowdsourced detection:
| Features | IsDown | Downdetector |
|---|---|---|
| Official Paystack status page monitoring. Know when Paystack is down with real time incident details. | ||
| Monitor 6,320+ services including Paystack in a single dashboard. | ||
| Instant Paystack outage alerts sent to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, and more. | ||
| Combined monitoring: Paystack official status plus user reports for early outage detection. | ||
| Maintenance feed for Paystack | ||
| Granular alerts filtering by Paystack components and regions. |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Paystack down today?
Paystack is down. You can check Paystack status and incident details on the top of the page. IsDown continuously monitors Paystack official status page every few minutes. In the last 24 hours, there were 0 outages reported.
What is the current Paystack status?
Paystack seems to be having problems. You can check Paystack status and incident details on the top of the page. The status is updated in almost real-time, and you can see the latest outages and issues affecting customers.
Is there a Paystack outage now?
Yes, there is an ongoing outage. You can check the details on the top of the page.
Is Paystack down today or just slow?
Yes, Paystack might be slow as there's an ongoing outage. You can check the details on the top of the page.
How are Paystack outages detected?
IsDown monitors the Paystack official status page every few minutes. We also get reports from users like you. If there are enough reports about an outage, we'll show it on the top of the page.
Is Paystack having an outage right now?
Paystack last outage was on May 28, 2026 with the title "Ghana: Outbound Transfers Experiencing Delays"
How often does Paystack go down?
IsDown has tracked 502 Paystack incidents since June 2021.
Is Paystack down for everyone or just me?
Check the Paystack status at the top of this page. IsDown combines official status page data with user reports to show whether Paystack is down for everyone or if the issue is on your end.
What Paystack components does IsDown monitor?
IsDown monitors 11 Paystack components in real-time, tracking the official status page for outages, degraded performance, and scheduled maintenance.
How to check if Paystack is down?
- Subscribe (if possible) to updates on the official status page.
- Create an account in IsDown. Start monitoring Paystack and get alerts in real-time when Paystack has outages.
Why use IsDown to monitor Paystack instead of the official status page?
Because IsDown is a status page aggregator, which means that we aggregate the status of multiple cloud services. You can monitor Paystack and all the services that impact your business. Get a dashboard with the health of all services and status updates. Set up notifications via Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, and more, when a service you monitor has issues or when maintenances are scheduled.
How IsDown compares to DownDetector when monitoring Paystack?
IsDown and DownDetector help users determine if Paystack is having problems. The big difference is that IsDown is a status page aggregator. IsDown monitors a service's official status page to give our customers a more reliable source of information instead of just relying on reports from users. The integration allows us to provide more details about Paystack's Outages, like incident title, description, updates, and the parts of the affected service. Additionally, users can create internal status pages and set up notifications for all their third-party services.
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