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title: "Payfast: Online and In-Store Payment Gateway"
description: "Accept 18+ payment methods in South Africa—cards, Instant EFT, QR and store cards. Use 70+ plugins or API, subscriptions, refunds, split payments."
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published_at: "2026-03-19T10:37:13.617Z"
updated_at: "2026-10-06T16:49:26.456Z"
---

# Payfast: Online and In-Store Payment Gateway

Accept 18+ payment methods in South Africa—cards, Instant EFT, QR and store cards. Use 70+ plugins or API, subscriptions, refunds, split payments.

## Breadcrumbs

- [Fintech](/categories/fintech)
- [Payfast](/payfast)

## Summary

Accept online and in-store payments across South Africa

An online payment gateway for South African businesses to accept 18+ payment methods, manage payouts and refunds, and integrate via plugins or API on web and mobile.

## Product details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://payfast.io/ |
| Tagline | Accept online and in-store payments across South Africa |
| Primary country | South Africa |
| Platforms | Web, Desktop, API, Android, iOS |
| Average rating |  |
| Published reviews | 0 |
| Verified listing | No |

## About the product

Payfast by Network is an online payment gateway for South African merchants that need to accept card and alternative payments on ecommerce sites, invoices, and in-store.

Key capabilities include:
- **18+ payment methods** including credit cards, **Instant EFT**, **QR codes**, **Mobicred**, and **store cards**, with support for **multi-currency pricing** to accept payments from almost anywhere in the world.
- **Checkout and billing tools** such as **onsite payments**, **Pay Now buttons**, **payment requests via email**, and **subscriptions** with **tokenization** for recurring card payments.
- **Operations and settlement** features including **immediate payout** (access funds within minutes), **merchant refunds**, and **split payments** to share a transaction with a third party.
- **Integration options** across **70+ plugins and platforms**, plus **custom integrations** using APIs, SDKs, and developer documentation (including separate docs for Aggregation and Gateway).

Available on **Web** (merchant dashboard and login portals), **Android** and **iOS** (Payfast by Network App), and via **API**.

It serves **businesses of all sizes**, from SMEs that want a transaction-fee-only **Aggregation** option (no monthly fees) to larger merchants that need a **Gateway** solution using an existing merchant account.

Notable in South Africa for its **PCI-DSS Level 1** security posture and adoption across local merchants, with the service described as trusted by **80,000+ South African businesses** and backed by **Network International**.

## Features

- [Fintech](/categories/fintech): Category
- [B2B](/tags/b2b): Product feature or technology
- [Invoicing](/tags/invoicing): Product feature or technology
- [Payment Gateway](/tags/payment-gateway): Product feature or technology
- [POS](/tags/pos): Product feature or technology
- [South Africa](/countries/south-africa): Market

## Related pages

- [Alternatives](/payfast/alternatives)
- [Reviews](/payfast/reviews)
- [Transparency](/payfast/transparency)

## Access and citation

- [Canonical HTML page](https://liners.com/payfast)
- [Markdown route index](/sitemap.md)
- [Agent access guide](/llms.txt)