WooCommerce Payfast Gateway

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!

1.7.4 – 2025-11-03

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.3.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.1.
• Dev – Run PHP Compatibility sniffs against production build in GitHub action.
• Dev – Updates to our QIT GitHub Action workflow.
• Dev – Add new deploy workflow.

1.7.3 – 2025-08-11

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.1.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 9.9.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.7.
• Dev – Update NPM packages to fix security issues.

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.