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🇿🇦 Payfast ~ South African payment gateway

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One of South Africa's most widely used gateways; checkout is form/redirect-based with signature (merchant-id + passphrase) and separate API endpoints for subscriptions/transactions, requiring a merchant account.

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# Payfast ~ South African payment gateway needs an API key.
# No single public base URL ~ start from the docs:
# https://developers.payfast.co.za/

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I'm integrating a South Africa API into my app.

API: Payfast ~ South African payment gateway
Provider: Payfast (by Network)
Auth: requires an API key (sign up: https://developers.payfast.co.za/)
Pricing: paid
Important note: One of South Africa's most widely used gateways; checkout is form/redirect-based with signature (merchant-id + passphrase) and separate API endpoints for subscriptions/transactions, requiring a merchant account.

Source: Payfast (by Network) (https://developers.payfast.co.za/)
Source type: Provider API or developer docs
Endpoint type: Docs-first integration
Integration difficulty: Needs API key
Last checked: 2026-07-05
Production caveat: Keep credentials server-side and confirm current limits, pricing, and webhook/error behaviour in the provider docs.

Help me set up the correct onboarding/authentication path and make the first valid request ~ explain exactly where credentials go and what must happen before production.

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