PayFast · Example Payload

Initiate Payment

Example of a standard redirect-based payment form POST to PayFast. After posting these fields to https://www.payfast.co.za/eng/process, the customer is redirected to the PayFast payment page to complete the transaction.

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Initiate Payment is an example object payload from PayFast, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

titledescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "title": "Initiate a Standard PayFast Payment",
  "description": "Example of a standard redirect-based payment form POST to PayFast. After posting these fields to https://www.payfast.co.za/eng/process, the customer is redirected to the PayFast payment page to complete the transaction.",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://www.payfast.co.za/eng/process",
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    },
    "body": {
      "merchant_id": "10000100",
      "merchant_key": "46f0cd694581a",
      "return_url": "https://www.example.com/return",
      "cancel_url": "https://www.example.com/cancel",
      "notify_url": "https://www.example.com/notify",
      "name_first": "Jane",
      "name_last": "Smith",
      "email_address": "jane@example.com",
      "m_payment_id": "order-1234",
      "amount": "99.00",
      "item_name": "Premium Subscription",
      "item_description": "Monthly premium plan access",
      "currency": "ZAR",
      "signature": "ad3e6c84d5e5f374a3a0431bc5acbc90"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 302,
    "description": "Customer is redirected to the PayFast payment page"
  }
}

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