Our Story, Our Promise
We offer you various payment methods to make online shopping easier.
Our Payment Providers
We have partnerned with South Africa's most safe and secure online payment providers to give you a variety of payment options.
PayFast
Payfast is a leading online payment processing solution in South Africa. We are dedicated to enabling the easy, secure, and instant transfer of money to online merchants.
Ozow
Ozow is one of South Africa’s fastest growing fintechs, changing the finance landscape by creating cashless and contactless payment solutions.
Peach Payments
Peach Payments is a trusted African payment gateway with easy e-commerce integrations and
personalised multi-channel support.
Payflex
Payflex is a payment solution available for online and in-store purchases. We provide your shoppers with a spending plan, paying you upfront but giving them 6 weeks to pay – at 0% interest.
Our Payment Methods
We offer a diverifised range of online payment methods for you to choose from.
Credit & Cheque Cards
Visa and MasterCard credit cards are the most popular and trusted online payment methods around the world.
Debit Cards
Debit cards issued by Maestro and Visa Electron are still popular among many South African shoppers, and can be used to make online purchases through PayFast.
Instant EFT
Instant EFT by Payfast allows online shoppers with access to internet banking to make an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) that gets instantly verified.
Bank Transfer
Our personal payment option for those you do not use or trust online payment methods.
Mobicred
Mobicred is an online account that gives buyers access to credit, which they can use to pay you online through PayFast.
Masterpass
A free digital wallet from Mastercard that enables online shoppers to quickly and securely check out and make online payments.
QR Code Apps
Accept a variety of scan to pay payment methods by displaying a QR code at checkout that your customers can scan with their preferred payment app.
SnapScan
SnapScan is one of South Africa’s first ‘scan to pay’ contactless payment apps that makes it easy and safe to pay and receive payments online.
Zapper
Zapper is a free 'scan to pay' app that makes payment convenient and secure for both online shoppers and merchants.
MoreTyme
MoreTyme is a flexible payment method from TymeBank that allows online shoppers to buy now and pay in full later, literally giving customers more time to pay for their purchases.
Store Cards
RCS Store Cards (including RCS, Game, Cape Union Mart, Makro, Builders and CTM cards) provide customers with the ability to make online purchases through affordable and flexible payment terms.
SCode
SCode is a unique payment platform that allows shoppers to pay for their online purchases in-store at one of more than 6,000 retail outlets across South Africa.
Payment Protection
PCI-DSS Level 1 Compliant
All your customers' credit card payments are done in our secure environment.
Validation Checks
Payments and card details are automatically checked against large online databases of blacklisted details.
3D Secure
This extra layer of security is used for all online transactions using a credit card.
BIN/IIN Validation
Checks the card-issuing bank locations and merchants can choose to enable/disable payments from certain countries.
Two-Factor Authentication
This extra layer of security is available to restrict access to your PayFast account.
Fraud Reviews
All suspicious transactions are manually reviewed by our support team.
Website Protection
Secure Servers
Our website, payments page and help site are hosted on secure servers, safeguarding against phishing attacks.
Extended Validation SSL
We use Extended Validation SSL with 2048-bit encryption, the highest level encryption available.
GEO IP Tracking
By monitoring where transactions originate from we can look for mismatches with the card’s issuing country.
Web Application Firewall
We utilises WAF technologies to detect and stop malicious activity before it reaches our servers.
ASV Scans
We run weekly network scans to look for new possible vulnerabilities and certify quarterly.