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Is Absa down in South Africa?

Planned maintenance at Absa

People in South Africa: 0 reports in the last hour Official page: Planned maintenance, checked 7 min ago Our checks: We don't check its website

App (Absa Banking App): OperationalLogin: OperationalPayments: Maintenance

Absa has planned maintenance. Maintenance on Absa Online Banking - Full Service / Payments, Absa Online Banking - Full Service / IIP: Immediate Interbank Payment, Absa Online Banking - Full Service / Buy Prepaid Data and Airtime and 7 more. Updated 7 Nov, 20:48 UTC, 7 min ago · Official status page
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Known issues (from Digital Channels Service's status page)

Maintenance

  • Absa Online Banking - Planned Maintenance (under way) 7 Nov, 18:00 UTC to 8 Nov, 03:00 UTC. Affects Payments, IIP: Immediate Interbank Payment, Buy Prepaid Data and Airtime, Buy Prepaid Electricity and 6 more · Details Latest update (7 Nov, 18:00 UTC): Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.

In Digital Channels Service's own words, as we read them every 7.5 minutes, last 7 min ago. Read Digital Channels Service's status page

Reports from people in South Africa

Last 24 hours · South Africa · times in UTC

0 reports

No community reports in the last 24 hours from South Africa. Having trouble? Add your report.

Status page: maintenance, 18:01 to now 024 00:0006:0012:0018:00

Bars: reports every 15 minutes. Reports alone do not confirm an outage; a flat chart does not prove everything works.

Tinted columns: when Absa's status page showed a partial outage, a major outage or maintenance, as we read it every 7.5 minutes; the times are when we saw it, not when the provider posted it. Tinted columns are worldwide; the bars count reports from South Africa only.

Report totals as of 7 Nov, 20:55 UTC

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Where this status comes from

Provider updates and website checks — Worldwide

The evidence below covers the provider and our available checks. It is not a separate verdict for South Africa. The report chart above is filtered to South Africa.

Parts of Absa

Digital Channels Service

Absa Online Banking - Full Service

  • PaymentsMaintenance
  • IIP: Immediate Interbank PaymentMaintenance
  • Buy Prepaid Data and AirtimeMaintenance
  • Buy Prepaid ElectricityMaintenance
  • Absa RewardsMaintenance
  • Verification message - 2FA_SureCheckMaintenance
  • Western Union/SWIFT/Currency Investment AccountsMaintenance
  • CashSend and CashSend PlusMaintenance
  • Play LottoMaintenance
  • AVAF services.Maintenance

Express Online Banking

  • PaymentsOperational
  • CashSend and CashSend PlusOperational
  • IIP: Immediate Interbank PaymentOperational
  • PayShap - Rapid Payment ProgramOperational
  • Buy Prepaid Data and AirtimeOperational
  • Buy Prepaid ElectricityOperational
  • Absa RewardsOperational
  • Verification message - 2FA_SureCheckOperational
  • Play LottoOperational
  • AVAF services.Operational

Absa Banking App

  • App LoginOperational
  • PaymentsOperational
  • CashSend and CashSend PlusOperational
  • IIP: Immediate Interbank PaymentOperational
  • PayShap - Rapid Payment ProgramOperational
  • Buy Airtime and DataOperational
  • Buy Prepaid Electricity and BluVouchersOperational
  • Play LottoOperational
  • Absa RewardsOperational
  • Verification message - 2FA_SureCheckOperational
  • Western Union/SWIFT/Currency Investment AccountsOperational
  • AVAF services.Operational

Cellphone Banking (USSD)

  • LoginOperational
  • Buy Prepaid Data and AirtimeOperational
  • Buy Prepaid ElectricityOperational
  • Absa RewardsOperational
  • CashSendOperational
  • Play LottoOperational

WebPage - Absa.co.za

  • Absa webpageOperational

Digital Sales Platform (DSP)

  • Digital Sales Platform (DSP)Operational

ChatWallet Banking

  • Pay beneficiaryOperational
  • BuyOperational
  • Add or Withdraw moneyOperational
  • Wallet optionsOperational

Product Applications

  • Product ApplicationsOperational

Absa Digital Channels unavailable

  • Absa Digital Channels unavailableOperational

Other parts

  • PaymentsOperational
  • Buy Prepaid Data and AirtimeOperational
  • Buy Prepaid Electricity and BluVouchersOperational
  • Absa RewardsOperational
  • Mini Credit ReportOperational
  • PayShap - Rapid Payment ProgramOperational
  • Absa PayOperational

Incidents and maintenance

Maintenance

  • Absa Online Banking - Planned Maintenance (now) 7 Nov, 18:00 UTC to 8 Nov, 03:00 UTC. Affects Payments, IIP: Immediate Interbank Payment, Buy Prepaid Data and Airtime, Buy Prepaid Electricity and 6 more · Details
Outage history

No problems recorded since 2 Nov 2026.

Last 9030 days

100.00% of the time without a reported outage, since 2 Nov

Of the last 90 days, 0 had a partial or major outage, 2 had maintenance only and 84 have no data. Recent problems are listed in a table further down.

90 days ago30 days agoToday

No problems Partial outage Major outage Maintenance No data yet

Recent problems

No problems recorded since 2 Nov 2026.

What can I try?

Having trouble with Absa?

  1. Compare reports from South Africa and check the latest update above. A quiet chart does not rule out a new or local problem.
  2. Try the service on another device or switch between WiFi and mobile data, if available. If other sites also fail, check your internet provider.
  3. Report a problem with the feature that is failing and the country where you are affected. Submit once; your report appears in the chart.

Reports describe people's experiences. One report alone does not confirm an outage.

Questions about these results

Questions

Is Absa down, or is it just me?

Absa is doing planned maintenance, so some parts may not work right now. It is probably not just you.

How do we know?

We read the official Absa status page. People can also report problems here. Their reports appear separately and may reveal issues before a provider update.

How often do we check?

The status page every 7.5 minutes, day and night. We keep 90 days of history: a day we have no reading for shows as "no data yet", never as working.

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