Guidance

Rural Payments service: check for maintenance and downtime

Check for maintenance and downtime of the Rural Payments service over the next 4 weeks

From:
Rural Payments Agency
Published
10 October 2023
Last updated
2015 SeptemberOctober 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

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 FridayWednesday
2016 SeptemberOctober		 8:00pm10:15pm FridayWednesday
2016 SeptemberOctober		 SystemGeneral maintenance
6:00pm5:15pm WednesdayThursday
2517 SeptemberOctober		 9:00pm9:00am WednesdayFriday
2518 SeptemberOctober		 General maintenance
6:00pm ThursdayWednesday
0323 October		 9:00pm ThursdayWednesday
0323 October		 MajorGeneral maintenance
6:00pm Wednesday
0930 October		 9:00pm Wednesday
0930 October		 General maintenance
6:00pm9:00am WednesdaySaturday
1609 OctoberNovember		 9:00pm4:00pm WednesdaySaturday
1609 OctoberNovember		 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

Published 10 October 2023
Last updated 2015 SeptemberOctober 2024 + show all updates

  1. Updated planned downtime for the remainder of October 2024

  2. Further updates to October 2024 Downtime notifications added to page

  3. Essential maintenance downtime added for Friday 20 September between 6pm and 8pm

  4. Updated downtime scheduled.

  5. Scheduled downtime added for Wednesday 7 August 2024

  6. Scheduled maintenance added for 22 July.

  7. Updates to planned downtime for July and August 2024.

  8. Updates to June downtime!

  9. Added downtime notification for 13 May

  10. Updates to planned downtime to include additional downtime for 24 April

  11. Updates to Rural Payments downtimes scheduled for May 2024

  12. Updated Rural Payments downtime for May 2024.

  13. Updates to Rural Payments downtime for March/April 2024

  14. Updates to downtime times for the March and April 2024

  15. Updated planned downtime for March

  16. Further updates made to February/March 2024 scheduled downtimes

  17. Downtime scheduled for today 21/02 has been updated

  18. Updated scheduled Rural Payments downtime notifications for February 2024.

  19. Updates to RP downtime scheduled for Friday 19 January

  20. Updates to planned Rural Payments downtime for January 2024

  21. Updates to Friday 12th January 2024 for planned downtime.

  22. Downtime added for week commencing 1 January 2024

  23. Updated downtime for week commencing 18 December.

  24. Update to planned downtime during December 2023

  25. Planned downtime entered for Wednesday 29th November from 6pm to 9pm

  26. Updates to planned downtimes during November and December 2023.

  27. The Rural Payments Service is back online

  28. Rural Payments service unavailable due to unplanned system maintenance.

  29. Updates to planned downtime for essential maintenance to Rural Payments for November.

  30. Change of downtime.

  31. Updated to scheduled Maintenance

  32. First published.

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