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We received great feedback about our redesigned site, which went online at the start of the month. It has all the familiar functions that sellers had access to before, but the new layout makes getting (and using) some of these tools a little easier. The PayFast Dashboard (image below) will appear for those with accounts that can accept payments, those who can only make payments can always upgrade their accounts once logged in.
The developers over at DTH Development have been hard at work and we’re happy to announce that they created a PayFast plugin for their popular DT Register events registration/booking solution.
Jigoshop is another easy-to-use eCommerce solution that allows you to sell from the familiar WordPress platform. With Jigoshop you can quickly and easily set up your online shop, customise it with themes and install the newly developed PayFast extension to accept payments from South African shoppers.
We’re all pretty excited about 2012 here at PayFast – and the year has only just begun! This week we reached a pretty significant company milestone: we are happy to say that we now have more than 100,000 successful PayFast registrations!
Considering we’ve only been in operation for less than 5 years and that online shopping is yet to really take off in South Africa, we think this is really a great accomplishment. We even made a little graph, above, to show how things are taking off.
WHMCS has evolved to version 5.0, and we’re happy to announce that we’ve updated the (free) PayFast plugin to be compatible with this new version.
There are a lot of exciting new things in this latest version of WHMCS:
We’re happy to announce that the PayFast plugin for the Magento eCommerce Platform has been updated. The updated module is compatible with Magento v1.4, v1.5 and the latest: v1.6.
Magento is a feature-rich eCommerce platform built on open source technology that provides online merchants with great flexibility over the look, content and feel of their eCommerce store. It has some exciting features such as built in Analytics and Reporting, SEO and mobile commerce solutions. For a full list of features click here, and to see a demo of the Magento store or admin panel click here.
We’re happy to announce that you can now process and purchase mimoney with PayFast. mimoney is a mobile payment method, supported by Standard Bank, which enables you to make online transactions without the need for a debit/credit card or even a bank account.
mimoney has partnered with over 20 big stores (including TAKEALOT, Look & Listen, Incredible Connection and Mr Delivery) which all currently accept the currency. In addition to these, online shoppers can now use this digital currency at the thousands (and counting) of PayFast merchants.
It just got a little easier for WordPress (or more precisely Woothemes) sites to connect with clients through WooCommerce – a plugin application with lots of great features and customisable themes – and turn their sites into easy to use e-commerce platforms.
WooCommerce is a great way for businesses to quickly and professionally build a professional online shopping site, without the technical know-how (and headaches) of traditional e-Commerce platforms.