Payments built to build your business

Get super-fast and super-secure payments from just about anywhere in the world with South Africa’s most-loved payment platform – letting you get on with the business of running your business.

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Online payments built to build your business

Get super-fast and super-secure online payments from just about anywhere in the world with South Africa’s most-loved payment platform – letting you get on with the business of running your business.

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Your Payfast by Network account.
The smartest way to get you paid.

No one does payment processing better than we do, making your Payfast by Network account the fastest, smartest and safest way to accept payments online.

How would you like to get paid?

Integrate and immediately accept 18+ payment processing methods, including credit cards, Instant EFT, QR codes, Mobicred and store cards.

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No monthly fees on the Payfast Aggregation solution. Zero. Zip. Nada.

Yup, you only pay a small transaction fee when you make a sale. No monthly, setup or hidden fees.

Backed by greatness.

As part of Network International, we’re backed by Middle East and Africa’s leading enabler of digital commerce, offering world class payments solutions to our customers.

Your business. Your bank. Our solution.

For merchants with bigger or more complex needs our gateway solution harnesses the power of your existing merchant account and combines it with our expert payment processing technology.

We work with the best

You deserve success. You also deserve options. That’s why Payfast by Network works with 70+ of the world’s best payment plugins, plus our super-smart API lets you integrate your custom-built websites to easily enable online payments.

Loved by developers

You’ll love how easy it is to build payment flows for any use case — from online collections to automated subscriptions and everything in between — by integrating our SDKs and API endpoints.

Our documentation includes:

  • Custom integration
  • Robust APIs
  • Onsite payments
  • Recurring billing
  • Pay Now button
  • Shopping carts

Integration built in

Payfast by Network integrates with 70+ platforms and plugins to ensure that no matter what platform you use, you can get paid instantly and securely online.

Custom integrations

Have a custom-developed website? No problem. With a custom Payfast by Network integration, you’ll start receiving payments instantly on your digital platform. The Payfast Developer Documentation includes everything you or your developer needs to know to successfully integrate Payfast by Network into your website.

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Trusted by more than 100,000 South African businesses.

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Real-time reporting to help you
grow your business

We know how busy building a business can be. That’s why we built the one dashboard to rule them all, a single, super-responsive online dashboard that lets you manage your entire account, customise your settings, easily enable payment methods and features, plus action payouts, refunds and more.

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Pay it safe.

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More ways to get you paid

We support pretty much every popular payment method out there in South Africa. So when your customers want to show you the money they, well, can. In just about any way they like.

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