Is Paystack down?

What Paystack says

Paystack's status page shows nothing current; their next scheduled notice is "Nigeria: Scheduled Maintenance on Card Transactions" on 2026-11-07, read 7 days ago. Their page Ours is above, from trying the real thing.

Last 90 days

working 100% of the time since 19 Oct 2026 (10 days) (0 incidents)

No incident has been recorded yet.

Every incident we have measured

Is it just my store?

If Paystack is working and your store still can't pay, the fault is in your setup. Bilby will walk your store now and show you the screen. Free.

How we check

Every 5 minutes, from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt, we load Paystack's inline script and its API host. Not a ping. Not their status page.

Normally 1.3 s from Sydney, 465 ms from Virginia, 215 ms from Frankfurt — the slowest step we run, measured since 19 Oct 2026 (10 days).

How we check, in full — the method, the rule and our own four canaries

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It redraws itself every minute and links back here. Free, no account, no tracking.

<a href="https://navaal.ai/status/paystack"><img src="https://navaal.ai/status/paystack/badge.svg" alt="Paystack status" height="22"></a>

Questions

Is Paystack down right now?

No. Paystack is working. We load Paystack's inline script and its API host. Checked from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt 4 minutes ago.

How do you know Paystack is down?

Every 5 minutes, from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt, we load Paystack's inline script and its API host. Not a ping. Not their status page.

Paystack is up but my store isn't. What now?

Then the fault is in your setup — your theme, an app or your domain. Bilby will walk your store, try to buy something, and show you the screen where it stopped. It's free.