WooCommerce Payfast Gateway Plugin

The Payfast extension for WooCommerce enables you to accept payments including Subscriptions, Deposits & Pre-Orders via one of South Africa’s most popular payment gateways.

Why choose Payfast?

Payfast gives your customers more flexibility including putting down deposits, ordering ahead of time or paying on a weekly, monthly or annual basis.

1.6.5 – 2024-05-14

• Fix – Use rawurlencode around the call to get_site_url to ensure things are encoded properly.

1.6.4 – 2024-05-07

• Fix – Resolved signature mismatch error caused by HTML entity encoding in site/blog name.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 8.8.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.6.

1.6.3 – 2024-05-02

• Fix – Enforce amount match check for all payments in the Payfast ITN handler.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 8.7.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.5.
• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.5.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.3.

1.6.2 – 2024-03-25

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 8.6.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.4.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.3.
• Fix – Payfast gateway not visible on Checkout when ZAR currency is set via WooPayments multi-currency feature.
• Fix – Allow navigation back from PayFast gateway payment page.

1.6.1 – 2024-01-08

• Add – Readme.md file for e2e tests.
• Dev – Declare compatibility with WooCommerce Blocks.
• Dev – Declare compatibility with Product Editor.
• Dev – Updated the main file of the plugin to match the plugin’s slug.
• Dev – Bump PHP minimum supported version to 7.4.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 8.4.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.2.
• Dev – Resolve coding standards issues.
• Tweak – Bump PHP “tested up to” version 8.3.

1.6.0 – 2023-11-22

• Dev – Add Playwright end-to-end tests.
• Dev – Update default behavior to use a block-based cart and checkout in E2E tests.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 8.3.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 8.1.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.2.
• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.4.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version to 6.2.
• Dev – Update PHPCS and PHPCompatibility GitHub Actions.

1.5.9 – 2023-09-18

• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version from 6.2 to 6.3.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 7.9.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version to 7.7.
• Dev – Bump PHP minimum supported version to 7.3.

1.5.8 – 2023-08-29

• Add – Admin notice if this extension is activated without WooCommerce.

1.5.7 – 2023-07-25

• Fix – Handle WP_Error object when return from wp_remote_request.

1.5.6 – 2023-07-19

• Fix – Include build directory.

1.5.5 – 2023-07-04

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 7.8.
• Dev – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version from 6.8 to 7.2.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version from 5.8 to 6.1.
• Fix – Replace escaping of order total price elements on the edit order admin screen.

1.5.4 – 2023-06-13

• Fix – Escaped strings.

1.5.3 – 2023-05-25

• Dev – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 7.6.
• Dev – Bump WordPress minimum supported version from 5.6 to 5.8.
• Dev – Bump WordPress “tested up to” version 6.2.

1.5.2 – 2023-03-16

• Tweak – Bump PHP minimum supported version from 7.0 to 7.2.
• Tweak – Bump WooCommerce minimum supported version from 6.0 to 6.8.
• Tweak – Bump WooCommerce “tested up to” version 7.4.

1.5.1 – 2023-02-28

• Update – Payfast logo and text references to meet their new branding guidelines.
• Tweak – Bump WooCommerce “Tested up to” to 7.3.
• Tweak – Bump WooCommerce tested up to 7.3.0.
• Dev – Bump @sideway/formula from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1.
• Dev – Resolved linting issues.
• Dev – Bump json5 from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2.
• Dev – Bump loader-utils from 1.4.0 to 1.4.2.

1.5.0 – 2022-12-06

• Add – Support for High-performance Order Storage (“HPOS”) (formerly known as Custom Order Tables, “COT”).
• Dev – Update node version from 12.0.0 to 16.13.0.
• Dev – Update npm version from 6.9.0 to 8.0.0.
• Tweak – Bump minimum PHP version from 5.6 to 7.0.
• Tweak – Bump minimum WP version from 4.4 to 5.6.
• Tweak – Bump minimum WC version from 2.6 to 6.0.

1.4.25 – 2022-09-07

• Fix – Add support for Transaction ID.

1.4.24 – 2022-07-19

• Fix – Subscription renewal payment failed issue in the production environment.

1.4.23 – 2022-07-05

• Add – Allow setup Payfast during onboarding.
• Add – Added support for customer subscription payment method change.

1.4.22 – 2022-05-12

• Tweak – WP tested up to 6.0

1.4.21 – 2022-05-03

• Tweak – Bump tested up to WordPress version 5.9.

1.4.20 – 2022-01-18

• Fix – Status toggle button not working as expected

1.4.19 – 2021-05-04

• Add – support for the Cart and Checkout blocks included
• Fix – Error notice from direct access to the order id property.

1.4.18 – 2021-02-04

• Add fees to order
• Add signature to the request to Payfast
• Tweak – WC 4.9.2 compatibility.
• Tweak – WP 5.6 compatibility.

1.4.17 – 2020-11-25

• Fix – Fix Object could not be converted to string when renewing a subscription.
• Tweak – WC tested up to 4.7
• Tweak – WP tested up to 5.6
• Tweak – PHP 8.0 compatibility.

1.4.15 – 2020-03-30

• Tweak – WC tested up to 4.0
• Tweak – WP tested up to 5.4

See changelog for all versions.