[NEW PLUGIN] PayFast Payment Gateway (South Africa)

cousens · 2021-11-11T11:17:31.408Z

Hi Pieter,

Thanks so much for your quick response.

I’ve attached a screenshot showing the custom strings and integers that we can pass through additional information in. We will have a PaymentID but may also need to send through additional information for processing on the return side of things.

I make use of these for one type of transaction I process.

I also have another question:

Once I have 3 subscriptions, how can I get the status of each one and allow the user to cancel a specific one from my bubble side? I have all 3 subscriptions returned in a repeating group and a button but not sure how to link the single plugin to each of those dynamically to query the subscription status for each one and to execute the cancellation for each one separately.

Thanks for the great plugin!

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pieter · 2021-11-11T11:40:45.357Z

H i @cousens,

Sending of custom strings are not included in the current version of the plugin at the moment however will add this to the plugin dev roadmap.

You would need to make use of the GET SUBSCRIPTION and UPDATE SUBSCRIPTION actions and send through the subscription token of the specific RG record. So the subscription token would need to be stored and submitted in the UPDATE SUBSCRIPTION action. Unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to provide any additional support for this as it falls outside the scope of the plugin support.

Regards,
Pieter

pieter · 2022-02-24T08:38:26.051Z

Hi All,

Back with some good news!

The plugin has just been updated with the below functionality. Simply upgrade the plugin to the latest version via the Plugins menu (backwards compatible):

New Feature - Sandbox Mode

We’ve introduced the Sandbox mode checkbox to the PayFast element. When selected, the payments will be routed through the PayFast sandbox environment.

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Important: When selecting the Sandbox checkbox, the below merchant_id, merchant_key and passphrase needs to be entered into the plugin settings:

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New Feature - Split Payments

We’ve also added Split Payments functionality in the latest release. This will allow Payfast merchants to split payments with other Payfast merchants.

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An overview of the Split Payments fields:

merchant_id: This is the merchant_id of the PayFast merchant that you will be splitting the payment with.
amount: The amount that is being split (Leave blank when using percentage)
percentage: The percentage that is being split (Leave blank when using amount)
min: The minimum amount that is being split (This amount will be split with merchant if percentage split is lower than this amount. Note - amount should be in cents ZAR)
max: The maximum amount that is being split (This amount will be split with merchant if percentage split is higher than this amount. Note - amount should be in cents ZAR)

Important notes when making use of split payments:

Ensure that Split Payments is enabled on both of the merchant accounts on the Payfast dashboard.
Add the Merchant ID which you plan to split the payment with in the whitelist. (Screenshot below)
Complete the Split Payments fields on the Payfast Element.

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Note: There is no noticeable change visible to the users during the checkout process however the transactions will be split between the merchant accounts in the backend.

We hope you enjoy making use of these new features. As always, if you need any help with these new features please feel free to reach out via a DM.

PS. We’d appreciate if you could take some time to review our plugin.

Thanks,
Pieter

pieter · 2022-02-24T08:40:10.326Z

Hi @cousens,

Good news, we’ve just pushed our new version which includes Sandbox and Split Payments.

See the post here: [NEW PLUGIN] PayFast Payment Gateway (South Africa) - #28 by pieter

Thanks,
Pieter

sacoetzee · 2022-07-12T14:26:07.501Z

Hi @pieter. Thanks for this awesome plugin. When PayFast sends a notification to your notify_url (for example https://mysite.co.za/api/1.1/wf/itn_notification) how do I read the parameters and pull them into my database? For example, when the customer orders an order is created with a unique order number in the database and the status set as pending (per the demo app). How do I update this status now from the notify_url to say complete?

sacoetzee · 2022-07-13T05:37:38.636Z

Sorry, I see it’s a backend workflow 🤦.

pieter · 2022-07-13T06:45:31.802Z

Hi @sacoetzee

Glad you managed to find it.

Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

Regards,
Pieter

bernard · 2022-08-25T16:11:34.835Z

Hi @pieter ,

I was hoping to try out the demo - but your plan seems to have run out of Things in the database, which effectively renders the demo useless.

Any chance you could clear out some Things from the database?

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pieter · 2022-08-29T05:06:00.289Z

Hi @bernard

Apologies, looking into this as we speak. Will get the demo page back up and running asap.

Thank you for the interest!

Regards,
Pieter

christiaanlaubser123 · 2022-12-12T19:29:05.015Z

Hi Pieter

I hope you are well ?

I’ve really been struggling to find a good payment gateway solution for my app which will be offerred to South Africans, however I’ve never ever done this before and have no idea where to start

Would you kindly be able to provide me with some guidance as I would really appreciate it

If it helps, my main focus would be towards a more subscription based approach where sellers must pay me a monthly subscription to advertise on my platform

Any assistance in this regard would be greatly appreciated

Kind regards

pieter · 2022-12-13T07:31:20.021Z

Hi @christiaanlaubser123

The payfast payments plugin would definitely work for this scenario/use case.

If you need some help with setting this up within your app, you can submit a support request here and one of our team members will get in touch.

Submit support ticket

Thanks,
Pieter

shisaware · 2023-02-21T10:42:44.703Z

Hi i have a Pre-sale question, if a client makes a purchase, will the plugin return a successful or declined reference number ?

Thanks

pieter · 2023-02-21T17:30:10.224Z

Hi @shisaware

Thank you for reaching out. After a purchase is completed, the plugin will respond back in the backend workflow with a status (SUCESSFUL, CANCELLED) which can be assigned to the MPaymentId (Order/payment reference).

Thanks,
Pieter

shisaware · 2023-02-22T10:23:24.627Z

Thank you.

tameronbarbour · 2023-06-01T07:30:38.009Z

Hi Pieter, do you perhaps have a video tutorial? For a newbie, i’m finding it difficult to integrate using the documentation.

rogovtechnology · 2023-09-22T10:25:41.097Z

Good day,
Id like to know how to integrate the Payfast APi with bubble.io for subscriptions. I am unsure how on the following:

Under Event: Button Subscribe: m_payment_id=** what unique must this be? **
Under Event: Get Subscriptions: subscription token: **what is this token and how do i generate it? **
I have an issue understanding how this API works because I cannot seem to make it function on the editor applicationn.
Please DM be back with some assistance- greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,

thinus1 · 2024-07-08T14:35:35.179Z

Hi @pieter
I had a look at the plugin and your demo page, but I do not see where to add the currency. Have I missed it? Can the plugin handle multi-currencies?

I’m looking to set up subscriptions for ZAR & USD. (other currencies will follow)

schintau · 2024-07-17T12:06:10.054Z

@pieter Hi Pieter

If the card payment failed, what will the return message be as I can only see Completed and Cancelled, will it return a cancelled transaction and denied transaction as Cancelled?

I assume I will have to create a different workflow for transactions that returned as Cancelled to notify the customer that the transaction failed. Is that right?

Thank you.

schintau · 2024-07-17T17:02:30.125Z

@pieter Hi again

I am currently running a part of my app in an iframe on a wordpress website. When we try to initiate payment from the app in the iframe, I am blocked and get the following error:

" Firefox Can’t Open This Page

To protect your security, sandbox.payfast.co.za will not allow Firefox to display the page if another site has embedded it. To see this page, you need to open it in a new window."

How can I work around this to make it functional?

Hope to get an answer on my questions soon.

Thank you in advance.

nickn · 2024-07-26T18:56:14.963Z

Good day Pieter,

It seems there are only two options for someone using Payfast in bubble and I like your design but I have an issue with it. I am accepting donations into multiple different Payfast accounts but your Plugin only allows one account. Is there a work around or would you consider adding this feature?