Absa online banking maintenance begins; mobile app remains available

Absa’s Full Service online banking channel went into planned maintenance at 23:59 SAST on Friday, 16 October, with the work scheduled to run until 05:00 on Saturday, 17 October.

The bank’s official service-status page changed the maintenance notice to “in progress” at 23:59. Absa said its mobile app and Connected Banking would remain available during the work.

The maintenance affects the Full Service online banking channel. Functions listed under that channel include payments, immediate interbank payments, prepaid airtime and data, prepaid electricity, CashSend and foreign-payment services.

This does not mean those services are unavailable across every Absa channel. In a check shortly after midnight, the bank’s status dashboard listed its mobile app, Express online banking and USSD banking as available.

The notice was first issued at 08:21 on Friday. The later update confirms that the scheduled work has started; it does not report an unexpected outage.

The 05:00 end time is the bank’s planned maintenance window. At the time of checking, Absa had not yet posted a completion or restoration notice.