Outage in Paystack

Delay in Transfers and Direct Debit Transactions

Resolved Minor
August 23, 2025 - Started 3 months ago - Lasted about 13 hours
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Incident Report

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.
Components affected
Paystack Virtual Account Numbers Paystack Pay with Transfer transactions Paystack Transfers

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Latest Updates ( sorted recent to last )
RESOLVED 3 months ago - at 08/24/2025 06:38AM

This incident has been resolved.

MONITORING 3 months ago - at 08/23/2025 07:59PM

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

INVESTIGATING 3 months 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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