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Skillmerc Payment Gateway for PayFast

Name: Skillmerc Payment Gateway for PayFast
Author: skillmerc

PayFast for WooCommerce in South Africa: card, Instant EFT and SnapScan, orders that update reliably via ITN, refunds, HPOS and block checkout.

Skillmerc Payment Gateway for PayFast ranks #64,199 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, is #7,243 of 14,124 in the E-commerce category, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Oct 16, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v0.1.6 Current Version v0.1.6

Updated 2 weeks ago Last Update on 16 Oct, 2026

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.1.6
Last Updated: Oct 16, 2026
Requires WP: 6.4+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: skillmerc

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Skillmerc Payment Gateway for PayFast

Yes. Register at payfast.co.za, then copy the merchant ID and merchant key from Settings in your PayFast dashboard.

The gateway hides itself when it cannot complete a payment. Check that your store currency is ZAR and that a merchant ID and merchant key are filled in for the mode you are in (sandbox or live). PayFast shows the payment, but my WooCommerce order is still pending or on hold. That means the ITN callback is not arriving or not passing validation. Switch the debug log on in the gateway settings, place a test order, and read WooCommerce → Status → Logs, source skillmerc-payment-gateway-for-payfast. The log names the exact reason: signature mismatch, amount mismatch, unknown source host or failed server confirmation. A signature mismatch is almost always a salt passphrase that is set in your PayFast dashboard but not in the plugin, or the other way round. Step-by-step fixes for pending orders, invalid signatures, passphrase mismatches, refunds and Cloudflare are at https://skillmerc.github.io/payfast-woocommerce/help/ and work with any PayFast plugin.

Yes, once you tick the refunds setting. PayFast has to enable API access on your account first, and you must have a salt passphrase set. Refunds are not available in sandbox mode, because PayFast's sandbox does not implement the refunds API.

Yes. The plugin declares compatibility with High-Performance Order Storage and reads and writes order data through the WooCommerce CRUD API only.

Yes. The gateway registers a payment method with the checkout block as well as the classic shortcode checkout, so it appears in both.

Only to PayFast, only to process your payments, and only as described in the Description section. There is no telemetry.

Yes. The two use different gateway IDs and different order fields. Disable the one you are not using at checkout so shoppers do not see PayFast twice.

PHP 7.4 or newer and WordPress 6.4 or newer, with WooCommerce active. The code is checked on PHP 7.4 through 8.5.

No. It is an independent plugin and is not affiliated with or endorsed by PayFast or DPO.