Outage in Paystack

Delay in Transfers and Direct Debit Transactions

Resolved Minor
August 23, 2025 - Started 2 days ago - Lasted about 13 hours
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Outage Details

Transfers to bank accounts in Nigeria may experience a delay due to a downtime with Nigeria's central Transfers Switch. You might also experience: - Delays in confirming deposits for transactions, top-ups, and payments made to Virtual Account numbers. - Increased failures with Direct Debit transactions. We're working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and will provide an update as soon as it has been resolved.
Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 2 days ago - at 08/24/2025 06:38AM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING 2 days ago - at 08/23/2025 07:59PM

A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

INVESTIGATING 2 days ago - at 08/23/2025 06:01PM

Transfers to bank accounts in Nigeria may experience a delay due to a downtime with Nigeria's central Transfers Switch.

You might also experience:
- Delays in confirming deposits for transactions, top-ups, and payments made to Virtual Account numbers.
- Increased failures with Direct Debit transactions.

We're working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and will provide an update as soon as it has been resolved.

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