<h2>Take flexible payments with Payfast</h2>
The Payfast extension for WooCommerce enables you to accept payments including subscriptions, deposits, and pre-orders via one of South Africa’s most popular payment gateways.
Payfast gives your customers more flexibility including putting down deposits, ordering ahead of time or paying on a weekly, monthly or annual basis.
Customers can sign up to manage their payments via an easy-to-use payment wallet to pay for your product or service quickly and easily.
When a user elects to pay for their order using Payfast, they are redirected to your merchant account on Payfast where they are requested to login and make the payment. Payfast handles the payments and redirects your visitors back to your website where they can continue browsing through your store.

Payfast Payment Gateway

Take payments on your WooCommerce store via Payfast (redirect method).

<h2>Accept credit cards and PayPal directly on your store</h2>
The PayPal Braintree extension lets you accept credit cards and PayPal payments on your WooCommerce store via Braintree. Customers can save their credit card details or link a PayPal account to their WooCommerce user account for fast and simple checkout.
With this gateway, you can securely sell your products online using Hosted Fields, which help you meet security requirements without sacrificing flexibility or an integrated checkout process. Hosted Fields, similar to iFrames, are hosted on PayPal’s servers but fit inside the checkout form elements on your site, providing a secure, seamless means for customers to share their payment information.
PayPal Braintree supports tokenization, letting your customers save their credit cards or connect their PayPal account for faster, easier subsequent checkouts. The gateway also supports <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/">WooCommerce Subscriptions</a> to let you sell products with recurring billing and <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-pre-orders/">WooCommerce Pre-Orders</a>, which supports accepting payments for upcoming products as they ship or up-front.
<h2>Why you should use PayPal Braintree</h2>
<ul>
<li>Process PayPal and/or all major credit card and debit cards including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Diners Club, and JCB.</li>
<li>Meets <a href="https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/Understanding_SAQs_PCI_DSS_v3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PCI Compliance SAQ-A</a> standards.</li>
<li>Supports <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/">WooCommerce Subscriptions</a> and <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-pre-orders/">WooCommerce Pre-Orders</a>.</li>
<li>Detect and prevent fraud with Braintree’s <a href="https://articles.braintreepayments.com/guides/fraud-tools/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extensive suite of fraud tools</a>.</li>
<li>Supports Apple Pay.</li>
<li>Customers can securely save credit cards or link PayPal accounts to your site.</li>
<li>Process refunds, void transactions, and capture charges right from WooCommerce.</li>
<li>Route payments in different currencies to different Braintree accounts (requires currency switcher).</li>
<li>Includes express checkout options like Buy Now buttons on product pages and PayPal Connect buttons in the cart.</li>
<li>Supports Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) as required in the European Economic Area (EEA).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Features and benefits</h2>
<h3>A complete, secure payment solution</h3>
PayPal Braintree lets you securely receive online payments for the products and subscriptions in your store.
<h3>Save payment methods for a streamlined checkout experience</h3>
Customers can save their credit cards and connect their PayPal account for faster checkouts. Fewer screens, fewer clicks, and less friction can improve conversion rates — especially on mobile!
<h3>Expedited checkout with PayPal buttons on product, cart, and checkout pages</h3>
Add PayPal Checkout and Buy Now buttons to your site to expedite checkout for your customers. You can customize the buttons’ appearance to better match your site’s branding for a consistent experience.
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Enable the PayPal Buy Now button to let customers purchase directly from the product page.
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Expedite the purchase process with PayPal Checkout buttons in the cart.
<h3>Choices in fraud protection and security</h3>
PayPal Braintree includes basic fraud verification tools by default, but can support more sophisticated advanced or Kount Direct fraud tools for even greater protection.
Hosted Fields create iFrames hosted on Braintree’s servers that fit seamlessly into your site, providing a secure, customizable way for customers to enter payment information. Hosted Fields help your site achieve PCI DSS v3.0 SAQ-A compliance.
This extension also supports 3D Secure verification tools, such as Verified by Visa, and supports Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) for payment processing in the European Economic Area (EEA).
<h3>Manage orders directly in WooCommerce</h3>
With PayPal Braintree, you can capture previously authorized transactions, void transactions, and refund orders directly within WooCommerce for an optimized order management workflow.

PayPal Braintree

Accept PayPal, credit cards and debit cards with a single payment gateway solution — PayPal Powered by Braintree.

Payfast Payment Gateway vs PayPal Braintree