Rural Payments Agency
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There will be times when the Rural Payments service is unavailable because of essential planned maintenance and updates.
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will aim to minimise disruption to the service by scheduling planned maintenance times. We will try to give as much notice as possible about maintenance and downtime of the service, though we may not always be able to do this.
What maintenance and downtime is scheduled
Maintenance and downtime scheduled for the next 4 weeks. Some dates and times may change during the 4-week period.
| From | To | Reason for downtime |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00pm Wednesday 27 November | 9:00pm Wednesday 27 November | General maintenance |
| 5:15pm Thursday 05 December | 9:00am Friday 06 December | Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 11 December | 9:00pm Wednesday 11 December | General maintenance |
| 5:00pm Friday 13 December | 1:00pm Saturday 14 December | Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 18 December | 9:00pm Wednesday 18 December | General maintenance |
| 5:15pm Thursday 19 December | 9:00am Friday 20 December | Major maintenance |
Types of maintenance
There are different types of maintenance that need to be carried out.
| Type of maintenance | Maintenance details |
|---|---|
| Major | Planned downtime to release new functionality and software upgrades |
| General | Weekly planned downtime to update land and customer details |
| System | To fix system functionality |
Updates to this page
Last updated 27 November 2024 +show all updates
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Updates to Major downtime notifications for December.
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Updated planned downtime for the remainder of October 2024
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Further updates to October 2024 Downtime notifications added to page
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Essential maintenance downtime added for Friday 20 September between 6pm and 8pm
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Updated downtime scheduled.
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Scheduled downtime added for Wednesday 7 August 2024
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Scheduled maintenance added for 22 July.
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Updates to planned downtime for July and August 2024.
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Updates to June downtime!
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Added downtime notification for 13 May
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Updates to planned downtime to include additional downtime for 24 April
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Updates to Rural Payments downtimes scheduled for May 2024
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Updated Rural Payments downtime for May 2024.
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Updates to Rural Payments downtime for March/April 2024
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Updates to downtime times for the March and April 2024
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Updated planned downtime for March
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Further updates made to February/March 2024 scheduled downtimes
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Downtime scheduled for today 21/02 has been updated
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Updated scheduled Rural Payments downtime notifications for February 2024.