In Summary
  • The company said the services will be unavailable for one hour between 11:00 pm to 11:59 pm when the system will be undergoing maintenance. 

The company said the services will be unavailable for one hour between 11:00 pm to 11:59 pm.

This, Safaricom said, is to allow for systems maintenance.

The services that will  miss include:

  • Lipa Na M-Pesa and Buy goods and services
  • M-Pesa Business to Customer - B2C, Business to Business-B2B
  • USSD services including *100# and *200#
  • Daraja portal and all Mpesa API's
  • M-Pesa organization Portal, dealer portal and Lipa Na M-Pesa portal
  • International Money Transfers (Western union) and M-pesa Global
  • Mpesa App and Safaricom app
  • M-Shwari, KCB M-PESA and M-Kesho.
  • Pinless Top Up
  • IoT services

The company however said the rest of the service will available for customers. 

"All other services including calls, data and SMS and all other M-Pesa services will be available as usual," Safaricom said.  The Star