WooCommerce Payfast Gateway
Give customers more flexibility and increase your bottom line with Payfast — one of South Africa’s most popular payment gateways.
3(7 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, WooCommerce Payfast Gateway is a WordPress payfast plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 3/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 875K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.7+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 12% this week. Top alternative: LSX PayFast Gateway for Give.
3/57 reviews
30K+active installs
875K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
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 Pa…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Still no Breakdance support
by Dwayne Carsten·1 year ago·1 reply
Breakdance has been out for over a year or two now and Payfast still hasn’t added official support to work with their builder. Can’t take payments with Payfast using Breakdance builder.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Dwayne Carsten. Reason: Grammer error
Outdated PHP error 500
by karinjansevrgmailcom·1 year ago·2 replies
This Payfast extention is still running on PHP 7 and conflicts with PHP 8 that WordPress is running on.
[05-Dec-2024 12:54:57 UTC] PHP Warning: The magic method WC_Eftsecure::__wakeup() must have public visibility in /home/cp62088097/public_html/wp-content/plugins/woo-eftsecure-gateway/woocommerce-gateway-eftsecure.php on line 66
PHP 8 requires magic methods to be public but in PHP7 they are private.
see website php.watch / versions / 8.0 / magic-method-signatures
This gives a 500 server error when woocommerce redirects to payfast, making payfast inaccessible.
Neither Woocommerce nor Payfast seem to be administrating this plugin. They are pointing fingers at each other to update the plugin. That does not leave me with a lot of confidence in Payfast as a company.
I have switched to YOCO and found it a dream to work with. Excellent support and painless to add to my site.
- This topic was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by karinjansevrgmailcom.
Good but untested changes with ALL recent updates
·2 years ago·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
by tigmewp·2 years ago·1 reply
Plugin works well and support is excellent. Thank you Pepe and Shameem.
Very good payment gateway for South Africa
by challanj·5 years ago
This is always my recommended payment gateway for online woocommerce stores located in South Africa.
Download Trends
Today: 103Yesterday: 151This week: 993Period total: 131K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.7+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
| Dependencies | woocommerce |
Version Adoption
v1.7
71.7%
v1.6
14.8%
v1.4
8.0%
v1.5
5.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.7.5 – 2026-02-24
- Fix – Prevent notice being thrown due to the early loading of translations.
- Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.9.
- Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 10.5.
- Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 10.3.
Contributors
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