VibeFox PayFast for WooCommerce

Overview

VibeFox PayFast Pay Gateway adds PayFast to WooCommerce for payments in South African rand. The customer is sent to the secure PayFast payment page with a signed payment form and pays by card, Instant EFT or another method of your PayFast account. PayFast then confirms the payment to your store with a server-to-server notification (ITN), and the order is marked paid only after that notification passes all checks.

It suits South African stores that want PayFast's hosted payment page without a card form on their own site. The plugin takes one-time payments in ZAR only. It has no refunds from WooCommerce (refund in the PayFast dashboard), no subscriptions, no saved cards, no pre-orders and no split payments.

Key features

Signed payment form: the payment form is signed with your passphrase using the official PayFast algorithm and can be reopened from the Pay for order page.

Verified notifications: every ITN is checked: signature, your merchant account, the order key, a server-to-server confirmation with PayFast and, in live mode, that it comes from a PayFast server.

Amount check: the paid amount is compared with the order total in cents and the order must be in ZAR, otherwise the order goes on hold for review.

No double processing: repeated notifications never pay an order twice or duplicate e-mails, notes or stock changes. Late failed or pending notifications never downgrade a paid order, and a payment for a cancelled order is flagged for review.

Live and sandbox: separate credentials for each mode; a sandbox payment never pays an order while the store is live. A test mode notice is shown at checkout.

Hidden when unusable: without credentials, when the store or order currency is not ZAR, or when the total is below the PayFast minimum of R5.00.

Nothing to configure in PayFast: the notification URL is sent with every payment and shown in the settings.

Modern WooCommerce: classic checkout, Checkout block, the Pay for order page, HPOS. Optional debug log without passphrases or customer details.

Requirements

WordPress 6.2 or later, WooCommerce 8.0 or later, PHP 8.0 or later. Store currency South African rand (ZAR). A PayFast account with the Merchant ID, Merchant Key and passphrase, and sandbox credentials for tests. A site reachable from the internet. A VibeFox license key from vibefox.net (one key per domain).