WooCommerce Payfast Gateway

Description

The Payfast extension for WooCommerce enables you to accept payments including Subscriptions, Deposits & Pre-Orders via one of South Africa’s most popular payment gateways.

Why choose Payfast?

Payfast gives your customers more flexibility including putting down deposits, ordering ahead of time or paying on a weekly, monthly or annual basis.

FAQ

Does this require a Payfast merchant account?

Yes! A Payfast merchant account, merchant key and merchant ID are required for this gateway to function.

Does this require an SSL certificate?

An SSL certificate is recommended for additional safety and security for your customers.

Where can I find documentation?

For help setting up and configuring, please refer to our user guide

Where can I get support or talk to other users?

If you get stuck, you can ask for help in the Plugin Forum.

Reviews

Good but untested changes with ALL recent updates

December 16, 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.

Great plugin and excellent support

tigmewp November 25, 2023 1 reply

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

Very good payment gateway for South Africa

challanj March 5, 2021

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

payments don’t reflect on WooCommerce

josh1st August 13, 2020

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

The only Pay system to receive payments

Jobert Buys June 10, 2020

Thank you PayFast for making it easy to receive payments.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

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 www.ads-software.com 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.

1.5.9 – 2023-09-18

• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version from 6.2 to 6.3.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 7.9.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 7.7.
• Dev – Bump PHP minimum supported version to 7.3.

1.5.8 – 2023-08-29

• Add – Admin notice if this extension is activated without WooCommerce.

1.5.7 – 2023-07-25

• Fix – Handle WP_Error object when return from wp_remote_request.

1.5.6 – 2023-07-19

• Fix – Include build directory.

1.5.5 – 2023-07-04

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 7.8.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version from 6.8 to 7.2.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version from 5.8 to 6.1.
• Fix – Replace escaping of order total price elements on the edit order admin screen.

1.5.4 – 2023-06-13

• Fix – Escaped strings.

1.5.3 – 2023-05-25

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 7.6.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version from 5.6 to 5.8.
• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.2.

1.5.2 – 2023-03-16

• Tweak – Bump PHP minimum supported version from 7.0 to 7.2.
• Tweak – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version from 6.0 to 6.8.
• Tweak – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 7.4.

1.5.1 – 2023-02-28

• Update – Payfast logo and text references to meet their new branding guidelines.
• Tweak – Bump WooCommerce “Tested up to” to 7.3.
• Tweak – Bump WooCommerce tested up to 7.3.0.
• Dev – Bump @sideway/formula from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1.
• Dev – Resolved linting issues.
• Dev – Bump json5 from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2.
• Dev – Bump loader-utils from 1.4.0 to 1.4.2.

1.5.0 – 2022-12-06

• Add – Support for High-performance Order Storage (“HPOS”) (formerly known as Custom Order Tables, “COT”).
• Dev – Update node version from 12.0.0 to 16.13.0.
• Dev – Update npm version from 6.9.0 to 8.0.0.
• Tweak – Bump minimum PHP version from 5.6 to 7.0.
• Tweak – Bump minimum WP version from 4.4 to 5.6.
• Tweak – Bump minimum WC version from 2.6 to 6.0.

1.4.25 – 2022-09-07

• Fix – Add support for Transaction ID.

1.4.24 – 2022-07-19

• Fix – Subscription renewal payment failed issue in the production environment.

1.4.23 – 2022-07-05

• Add – Allow setup Payfast during onboarding.
• Add – Added support for customer subscription payment method change.

1.4.22 – 2022-05-12

• Tweak – WP tested up to 6.0

1.4.21 – 2022-05-03

• Tweak – Bump tested up to WordPress version 5.9.

1.4.20 – 2022-01-18

• Fix – Status toggle button not working as expected

1.4.19 – 2021-05-04

• Add – support for the Cart and Checkout blocks included
• Fix – Error notice from direct access to the order id property.

1.4.18 – 2021-02-04

• Add fees to order
• Add signature to the request to Payfast
• Tweak – WC 4.9.2 compatibility.
• Tweak – WP 5.6 compatibility.

1.4.17 – 2020-11-25

• Fix – Fix Object could not be converted to string when renewing a subscription.
• Tweak – WC tested up to 4.7
• Tweak – WP tested up to 5.6
• Tweak – PHP 8.0 compatibility.

1.4.15 – 2020-03-30

• Tweak – WC tested up to 4.0
• Tweak – WP tested up to 5.4

See changelog for all versions.