WooCommerce Payfast Gateway

What the author says it does

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!

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Questions the author answers

Latest changelog entry

1.7.9 – 2026-10-07

• Fix – Only users who can manage options can view or change the Payfast credentials and sandbox mode.
• Fix – Only accept Payfast payments and renewals for orders in South African Rand (ZAR).
• Fix – Accept ITN requests from every IP address Payfast publishes for its notification servers, instead of only the addresses currently held in DNS.
• Add – woocommerce_gateway_payfast_credentials_capability filter to change the capability needed to manage the Payfast credentials.