{"id":61015,"date":"2025-02-01T00:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/internet-business\/payfast-south-africa-online-payment-gateway-review\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T00:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T00:10:58","slug":"payfast-south-africa-online-payment-gateway-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=61015","title":{"rendered":"Payfast South Africa | Online Payment Gateway Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lets_look_at_some_awesome_features_of_Payfast_South_Africa\"\/><strong>Let\u2019s look at some awesome features of Payfast South Africa.<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is important to understand what your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webnomads.co.za\/start-online-store-south-africa\/\" title=\"online store\">online store<\/a> will need to provide your visitors when it comes to collecting money for services and products. Payfast makes it straightforward to cater for most if not all requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, let\u2019s dive right in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Payment Methods<\/strong><\/span>, like we mentioned already. Payfast South Africa comes with all different types to payment methods that will suite most business like credit cards like Visa, Mastercard, instant EFT and many more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will allow your store to take direct purchases online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Subscriptions<\/strong><\/span>, this is perfect if you are thinking about starting an online store with membership plans and or retainer style business. Everything is automated and scheduled as needed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tokenization<\/span><\/strong>, this is perfect for any business who needs faster checkout process. They way it works, your visitors stores their card details with Payfast secure payment system. They keep the details safe as a token and this will allow your visitor to your online store to buy products using a token and not having to supply their credit card details every time when they want to make a purchase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is perfect if you have many returning clients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Split Payments,<\/span><\/strong> This is a true way of building an awesome passive income stream and I do use it myself. This is how it works, you as a web developer build an e-commerce business for a client with great products but with no knowledge about online store. You then agree to a payment spilt for running the online store for them and every time a visitor buys a product you will receive a commission in your Payfast account via the split feature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is obviously a little secret but you can use the payment split however you want.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Request a payment<\/strong><\/span>, this is perfect for anyone that hustles hard to make money without a website and it is easy to set up. You can send someone a mail with a\u00a0 \u201cbuy now\u201d button and this creates an online payment process for the buyer. Money in the account. Simple as pie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Payfast South Africa comes with great features and you can tell they really put some effort in to helping out local people like the amazing \u201c request a payment\u201d feature.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a true South African company with ideas and solutions\u00a0 to cater for our market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what does it cost to have all these features at your fingertips?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s look at some awesome features of Payfast South Africa. \u00a0 It is important to understand what your online store will need to provide your visitors when it comes to collecting money for services and products. Payfast makes it straightforward to cater for most if not all requirements.\u00a0 So, let\u2019s dive right in.\u00a0 \u00a0 Payment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[4373,6319,2485,33842,11160,3749,6658],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-61015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-business","tag-africa","tag-gateway","tag-online","tag-payfast","tag-payment","tag-review","tag-south"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Payfast South Africa | Online Payment Gateway Review - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=61015\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Payfast South Africa | Online Payment Gateway Review - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let\u2019s look at some awesome features of Payfast South Africa. \u00a0 It is important to understand what your online store will need to provide your visitors when it comes to collecting money for services and products. 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