Description

Give customers more flexibility and increase your bottom line with Payfast — one of South Africa’s most popular payment gateways.

Features

Fast, super-secure payments from almost anywhere in the world.
Compatible with subscriptions, deposits, and pre-orders.

Get started

This extension requires a Payfast merchant account. Sign up for free.

How does it work?

At checkout, customers are automatically taken to Payfast to pay for their orders. Once payment is complete, Payfast redirects them to your store to continue shopping.

Fast, super-secure, and scalable

Pay it safe, every time. Payfast is trusted by more than 100,000 South African businesses, with security that exceeds industry standards. It’s PCI DSS-compliant and also supports 18+ popular payment methods. In a nutshell, WooCommerce Payfast Gateway is the fastest, smartest, and safest way to accept payments online.

Boost your bottom line

Payfast is compatible with WooCommerce Subscriptions and WooCommerce Pre-Orders, giving your shoppers the ultimate flexibility. Convert more customers by letting them make deposits, order in advance, or subscribe to your products and services. You win each way!

FAQ

Where can I find documentation?: You’ve come to the right place. Our documentation for WooCommerce Payfast Gateway includes detailed setup instructions.
Where can I get support?: Get in touch via the official support forum.
Does this extension support subscriptions?: Yes! WooCommerce PayFast Gateway is compatible with WooCommerce Subscriptions.
Do I need an SSL certificate?: We recommend using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate for additional customer security and trust.
Can I accept international payments?: Yes! You can receive Visa and Mastercard payments from anywhere in the world.
Do I need a Payfast account?: Yes; a Payfast merchant account is required.
Do I need to be a South African resident to open a Payfast account?: No, but to open a Payfast account, you’ll need a South African bank account to pay your funds into.

Reviews

Dwayne Carsten 15 Փետրվարի, 2025 1 reply

Breakdance has been out for over a year or two now and Payfast still hasn’t added official support to work with their builder. Can’t take payments with Payfast using Breakdance builder.

karinjansevrgmailcom 11 Դեկտեմբերի, 2024 2 replies

This Payfast extention is still running on PHP 7 and conflicts with PHP 8 that Wordpress is running on. [05-Dec-2024 12:54:57 UTC] PHP Warning: The magic method WC_Eftsecure::__wakeup() must have public visibility in /home/cp62088097/public_html/wp-content/plugins/woo-eftsecure-gateway/woocommerce-gateway-eftsecure.php on line 66 PHP 8 requires magic methods to be public but in PHP7 they are private. see website php.watch / versions / 8.0 / magic-method-signatures This gives a 500 server error when woocommerce redirects to payfast, making payfast inaccessible. Neither Woocommerce nor Payfast seem to be administrating this plugin. They are pointing fingers at each other to update the plugin. That does not leave me with a lot of confidence in Payfast as a company. I have switched to YOCO and found it a dream to work with. Excellent support and painless to add to my site.

16 Դեկտեմբերի, 2023 1 reply

This plugin «used to» give a log of messages in the order notes some many moons ago, this included trace codes and error messages which are now all gone in your past 10 updates. Why does nobody and I mean NOBODY actually test any of their code these days? Now I get order failed on an order but NO WAY to even trace what went wrong or contact your support who I might add take 3-7 days to ever reply.

tigmewp 25 Նոյեմբերի, 2023 1 reply

Plugin works well and support is excellent. Thank you Pepe and Shameem.

challanj 5 Մարտի, 2021

This is always my recommended payment gateway for online woocommerce stores located in South Africa.

josh1st 13 Օգոստոսի, 2020

I’ve had 2 payments come through on payfast but the order does says it’s cancelled

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Contributors & Developers

“WooCommerce Payfast Gateway” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.7.2 — 2025-07-14

Add — WordPress Playground instance.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 10.0.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.8.

1.7.1 — 2025-05-05

Fix — PHP warning for undefined variable when running alongside WooPayments.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 9.8.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.6.
Dev — Bump WordPress «tested up to» version 6.8.
Dev — Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.6.
Dev — Update all third-party actions our workflows rely on to use versions based on specific commit hashes.

1.7.0 — 2025-03-17

Update — Refresh copy and brand assets.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 9.7.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.5.
Dev — Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.6.
Dev — Add the WordPress Plugin Check GitHub Action and fix all issues it found.

1.6.10 — 2025-01-13

Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 9.6.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.4.
Dev — Use the @woocommerce/e2e-utils-playwright NPM package for E2E tests.

1.6.9 — 2024-11-18

Dev — Bump WordPress «tested up to» version 6.7.

1.6.8 — 2024-11-04

Add — Credentials validation and required field notice for PayFast in the sandbox environment.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 9.4.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.2.
Dev — Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.5.

1.6.7 — 2024-09-09

Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 9.3.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.1.
Dev — Update E2E tests to accommodate changes in WooCommerce.

1.6.6 — 2024-07-29

Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 9.1.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.9.
Dev — Bump WordPress «tested up to» version 6.6.
Dev — Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.4.
Dev — Update NPM packages and node version to v20 to modernize developer experience.
Dev — Exclude the Woo Comment Hook @since sniff.
Dev — Fix QIT E2E tests and add support for a few new test types.
Tweak — Update WordPress.org plugin assets.

1.6.5 — 2024-05-14

Fix — Use rawurlencode around the call to get_site_url to ensure things are encoded properly.

1.6.4 — 2024-05-07

Fix — Resolved signature mismatch error caused by HTML entity encoding in site/blog name.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 8.8.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.6.

1.6.3 — 2024-05-02

Fix — Enforce amount match check for all payments in the Payfast ITN handler.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 8.7.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.5.
Dev — Bump WordPress «tested up to» version 6.5.
Dev — Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.3.

1.6.2 — 2024-03-25

Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 8.6.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.4.
Dev — Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.3.
Fix — Payfast gateway not visible on Checkout when ZAR currency is set via WooPayments multi-currency feature.
Fix — Allow navigation back from PayFast gateway payment page.

1.6.1 — 2024-01-08

Add — Readme.md file for e2e tests.
Dev — Declare compatibility with WooCommerce Blocks.
Dev — Declare compatibility with Product Editor.
Dev — Updated the main file of the plugin to match the plugin’s slug.
Dev — Bump PHP minimum supported version to 7.4.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 8.4.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.2.
Dev — Resolve coding standards issues.
Tweak — Bump PHP «tested up to» version 8.3.

1.6.0 — 2023-11-22

Dev — Add Playwright end-to-end tests.
Dev — Update default behavior to use a block-based cart and checkout in E2E tests.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce «tested up to» version 8.3.
Dev — Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.1.
Dev — Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.2.
Dev — Bump WordPress «tested up to» version 6.4.
Dev — Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.2.
Dev — Update PHPCS and PHPCompatibility GitHub Actions.

See changelog for all versions.

Description

Features

Get started

How does it work?

Fast, super-secure, and scalable

Boost your bottom line

FAQ

Where can I find documentation?

Where can I get support?

Does this extension support subscriptions?

Do I need an SSL certificate?

Can I accept international payments?

Do I need a Payfast account?

Do I need to be a South African resident to open a Payfast account?