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Paybis: KES Payment Disruption — M-Pesa

Paybis · paybis.comImpact: criticalidentified2026-08-18 14:58 UTC

Public — what happened

Summary

We are working hard to get M-Pesa back online for your region and expect to have a solution in place today. Thank you for your patience. Keep checking back to see when M-Pesa is back live. Once it is, you can retry your transaction if it has not succeeded, with promo code SRYMPESA85.

Timeline

Started — 2026-08-18 14:58 UTC
Last update — 2026-08-18 14:58 UTC
Ongoing at last check.

Source of record: provider status page. Mirrored as reported; times in UTC.

With SquidGrid — where it starts on the route

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