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Creating custom Pay Now or Buy Now HTML buttons is one of the easiest ways of integrating with PayFast. In a couple of minutes you can create a clickable button, which you can embed in your blog or website to allow people to pay you online for your goods or services.
We’re keeping busy with our designs, redesigns, additions and improvements over here at PayFast. Last week we updated our Cause index, which now looks like this:
We created Cause accounts three years ago to help registered charities, NGOs and many other charitable causes with their fundraising efforts. We provide them with a free webpage, hosted by us, and discounted rates on the donations they receive. It’s our little way of helping out and giving back where we can. We’re still providing this amazing service; it only got a little prettier and more useful.
In a single punch, Google sums up their Adwords digital advertising with the following ad they placed in a newspaper:
This was actually a witty little publicity stunt by them, since they were showing that traditional print media isn’t the best way to advertise (the irony of actually using traditional media to do so isn’t lost on us). Print isn’t necessarily something we think you should overlook, but that depends on your industry and location. What we do think, or rather what we know, is that ads on Google work. If someone is looking for a new pair of running shoes, a supermarket or a haircut, odds are pretty high that they’ll search for it using Google.
Whether you are selling goods or services or have any type of business, big or small, there is a really significant chance that your customers are already searching for what you’re offering. Are your customers finding you?
It’s been a big year for eCommerce in South Africa. More and more shops are moving online and an increasing amount of them are exclusively selling online. The eCommerce Awards is a local initiative – currently in its seventh year – to recognise and reward the very best South African eCommerce websites.
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.