Rural Payments Agency
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 5:15pm Friday 12 January | 6:30pm Friday 12 January | General maintenance |
| 5:00pm Tuesday 16 January | 9:00am Wednesday 17 January | Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 17 January | 9:00pm Wednesday 17 January | General maintenance |
| 5:00pm Tuesday 30 January | 9:00am Wednesday 31 January | Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 31 January | 9:00pm Wednesday 31 January | General maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 7 February | 9:00pm Wednesday 7 February | General 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. Not planned |
Last updated 12 January 2024 +show all updates
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Updates to planned Rural Payments downtime for January 2024
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Updates to Friday 12th January 2024 for planned downtime.
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Downtime added for week commencing 1 January 2024
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Updated downtime for week commencing 18 December.
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Update to planned downtime during December 2023
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Planned downtime entered for Wednesday 29th November from 6pm to 9pm
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Updates to planned downtimes during November and December 2023.
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The Rural Payments Service is back online
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Rural Payments service unavailable due to unplanned system maintenance.
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Updates to planned downtime for essential maintenance to Rural Payments for November.
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Change of downtime.
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Updated to scheduled Maintenance
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First published.