Payment gateway 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 gateway – letting you get on with the business of running your business.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Payment solutions 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 gateway 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.
Grow your business with our card machine
Expand your business operations with our Network Point-of-Sale (POS) device. No matter where you are or what kind of business you’re running, our secure in-person payment solution facilitates swift and secure payments that get deposited directly into your Payfast by Network account.
Streamline in-person transactions with our tap-and-pay card machine to make shopping with your business safe and seamless.
We work with the best payment plugins
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 as your go to payment gateway.
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.
Trusted by more than 80,000 South African businesses.
Real-time transaction 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, payment solutions, customise your settings, easily enable payment methods and features, plus action payouts, refunds and more.
Account balance
At a glance, your account balance gives you most important details to make the best decisions. View your current balance along with your payout value so you can plan your next big project.
Payment methods
Having more ways to pay gives you the best chance at closing the sale. Using the payment method switches, turn on more ways to get your product in the hands of your buyers
Business funding
Ready to grow your business? Access business funding that’s tailored just for you directly from your dashboard. In a few clicks you can give your business the boost it needs to grow in any way you choose.
Payfast by Network.
Pay it safe.
Our security systems exceed industry standards, ensuring that every payment made on our platform is absolutely secure.
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.
