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 |
|---|---|---|
| 6:00pm Wednesday 3 April | 7:00pm Wednesday 3 April | General maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 10 April | 9:00pm Wednesday 10 April | Major maintenance |
| 5:15pm Thursday 11 April | 9:00am Friday 12 April | Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 17 April | 9:00pm Wednesday 17 April | Major maintenance |
| 5:15pm Wednesday 24 April | 9:00am Thursday 25 April | Major maintenance |
| 12:01am Saturday 27 April | 7:30pm Sunday 28 April | Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 1 May | 9:00pm Wednesday 1 May | Major maintenance |
| 6:00pm Wednesday 8 May | 9:00pm Wednesday 8 May | Major maintenance |
| 5:15pm Monday 8 May | 9:00am Tuesday 9 May | 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 |
Last updated 2 April 2024 +show all updates
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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.
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Updates to RP downtime scheduled for Friday 19 January
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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.