{"id":213745,"date":"2017-11-29T12:41:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T10:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=213745"},"modified":"2017-11-29T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T10:41:27","slug":"payu-records-black-friday-traffic-surge-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/213745\/payu-records-black-friday-traffic-surge-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"PayU records Black Friday traffic surge in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Black <span data-term=\"goog_2098359479\">Friday<\/span> that saw the spike in volumes challenge many eCommerce companies, payment services provider, PayU, said it facilitated an increase of around 8.5 times the transaction volumes from 2016 and experienced 0% downtime across all of its system components.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the massive increase in transaction volumes for our South African merchants, our platform remained fully operational for the duration of Black\u00a0 <span data-term=\"goog_2098359480\">Friday<\/span> as well as the weekend that followed.\u00a0 Active monitoring and routing contributed to the increased success rate of transactions processed during the day and alleviated some of the issues of last year,\u201d said Karen Nadasen, PayU South Africa CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it also hit a new platform high for the amount of successful transactions processed, both per second and per hour, in the <span data-term=\"goog_2098359482\">18:00 to 19:00<\/span> slot <span data-term=\"goog_2098359483\">on Friday<\/span> evening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe exceeded the total number of successful payments processed for Black Friday this year, compared to last year, at just after <span data-term=\"goog_2098359485\">14:00<\/span> <span data-term=\"goog_2098359486\">on Friday<\/span> and are extremely happy with this result, as a lot of planning and pre-emptive support was put in place long before the actual trading day,\u201d said Nadasen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/208335\/naspers-payu-leads-investment-in-us-digital-money-transfer-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naspers\u2019 PayU leads investment in US digital money transfer platform<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Black Friday that saw the spike in volumes challenge many eCommerce companies, payment services provider, PayU, said it facilitated an increase of around 8.5 times the transaction volumes from 2016 and experienced 0% downtime across all of its system components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1159],"class_list":["post-213745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-payu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213751,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213745\/revisions\/213751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}