Service Restored: Processing Delays on Payment Initiation

Incident Report for Flutterwave

Resolved

The issue causing intermittent 503 Service Unavailable errors across our v3 API endpoints has been fully resolved.

We sincerely appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience experienced.

Posted Nov 09, 2026 - 13:54 UTC

Investigating

Dear Valued Merchant,

We are currently investigating an issue causing intermittent failures and slower responses when payments are being initiated. Certain transactions may not complete on the first attempt.

Our team is working to restore full stability as quickly as possible. We will provide a further update within the hour.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause your business and thank you for your understanding.

Posted Nov 09, 2026 - 10:43 UTC

This incident affected: Flutterwave for Business (Flutterwave API).