Initialize, verify, charge, and manage one-time card, bank, USSD, mobile money, QR, and bank transfer payments. The Transaction and Charge resources are the core of Paystack — a...
Create plans and run recurring subscriptions against stored card authorizations. Includes plan management, subscription lifecycle (create / disable / enable), customer self-serv...
Create, list, and update customer profiles; whitelist or blacklist customers via risk_action; deactivate stored authorizations; and run KYC validation against customer identities.
Send money out of your Paystack balance to bank accounts and mobile money wallets across supported markets. Covers transfer recipients, single and bulk transfers, OTP workflows,...
Build marketplaces by automatically splitting a single payment between the main account and multiple subaccounts. Configure percentage or flat splits, set fee-bearers, and manag...
Provision dedicated NUBAN virtual bank accounts for individual customers so they can pay by bank transfer with automatic reconciliation back to the customer profile. Includes sp...
Manage products in your Paystack inventory and assemble them into Paystack-hosted Payment Pages so you can collect payments without operating your own checkout.
Issue invoice-style payment requests to customers by email, with verification, notification, finalization, and archival flows.
Process partial and full refunds against successful transactions and respond to cardholder disputes — including evidence upload via signed URL, resolution workflows, and exports.
Fetch settlement records and the underlying transactions that comprise each payout to your bank account.
Identity, BVN, bank account, card BIN, country, bank, and address-verification lookups used to validate customers, beneficiary accounts, and cards before transacting.
Fetch your Paystack balance per currency and read the balance ledger for treasury operations and reconciliation.
Read and update integration-wide settings such as the payment session timeout for hosted checkout.
Outbound webhook surface that notifies a single merchant-configured POST endpoint of transaction, dispute, refund, transfer, subscription, invoice, payment request, customer ide...
Hosted Checkout
Paystack-hosted authorization URL that handles PCI, SCA, OTP, USSD, QR, and 3DS flows for you.
Direct Charge API
Initiate charges programmatically with structured PIN, OTP, phone, birthday, and address challenge steps.
Recurring Subscriptions
Plans plus subscriptions with self-service customer management and email/SMS invoice notifications.
Transaction Splits
Route a single payment to multiple subaccounts on a percentage or flat basis for marketplaces.
Subaccounts
Vendor or merchant profiles with their own settlement bank and percentage charge.
Dedicated Virtual Accounts
NUBAN virtual accounts assigned to individual customers for bank-transfer-based payments with auto-reconciliation.
Payment Pages
No-code Paystack-hosted pages for selling products or accepting donations.
Payment Requests
Email-based invoices with verification, notification, finalization, and archive flows.
Single and Bulk Transfers
Pay out from balance to bank accounts and mobile money wallets, one at a time or as batches.
Bulk Charge
Charge many stored authorizations in a single batch with pause and resume controls.
Refunds
Partial or full refunds with merchant and customer notes.
Disputes and Chargebacks
Programmatic dispute response with signed evidence-upload URLs and resolution workflow.
Settlements
Read net settlement payouts and drill down into the transactions that composed each batch.
Identity Verification
BVN match, BVN resolution, account number resolution, card BIN lookup, country/bank lookup, and AVS state lists.
Multi-Currency
Accept NGN, GHS, ZAR, KES, XOF, EGP, and USD across supported markets.
Multi-Channel
Card, bank transfer, USSD, QR, mobile money (M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Orange Money, Wave), EFT, Apple Pay, Visa QR.
Webhooks
Signed webhook deliveries for transaction, dispute, refund, transfer, subscription, and invoice events with 72-hour retries.
Test Mode
A complete test environment with test cards covering success, decline, OTP, PIN, and 3DS flows.
Dashboard
First-class merchant dashboard for transactions, customers, subscriptions, transfers, settlements, and disputes.
aid: paystack
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/paystack/main/apis.yml
name: Paystack
tags:
- Payments
- Africa
- Fintech
- Recurring Billing
- Marketplaces
- Payouts
- Mobile Money
- Stripe
kind: contract
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
access: 3rd-Party
description: Paystack is an African payment processor (acquired by Stripe in 2020)
that lets businesses accept payments in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Côte
d'Ivoire, and Egypt across cards, bank transfers, USSD, QR, EFT, and mobile money
channels. Its single REST API covers one-time charges, recurring subscriptions,
marketplace splits, dedicated virtual accounts, invoices, transfers (payouts), refunds,
disputes, settlements, and KYC/identity verification — all wrapped in a developer
experience that has made it one of the most respected public APIs on the continent.
apis:
- aid: paystack:paystack-accept-payments
name: Paystack Accept Payments API
tags:
- Payments
- Transactions
- Charge
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/transaction/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/transaction/
type: Documentation
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/charge/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-accept-payments-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- url: json-schema/paystack-transaction-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
- url: json-structure/paystack-transaction-structure.json
type: JSONStructure
- url: examples/paystack-initialize-transaction-example.json
type: Example
- url: examples/paystack-verify-transaction-example.json
type: Example
- url: graphql/paystack-graphql.md
type: GraphQL
description: Initialize, verify, charge, and manage one-time card, bank, USSD, mobile
money, QR, and bank transfer payments. The Transaction and Charge resources are
the core of Paystack — a hosted checkout flow (initialize + verify) and a direct
charge flow that drives the customer through PIN, OTP, phone, birthday, and address
challenges as required.
- aid: paystack:paystack-subscriptions
name: Paystack Subscriptions API
tags:
- Recurring Billing
- Subscriptions
- Plans
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/subscription/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/subscription/
type: Documentation
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/plan/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-subscriptions-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- url: json-schema/paystack-plan-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
- url: json-schema/paystack-subscription-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
- url: json-structure/paystack-subscription-structure.json
type: JSONStructure
- url: examples/paystack-create-subscription-example.json
type: Example
description: Create plans and run recurring subscriptions against stored card authorizations.
Includes plan management, subscription lifecycle (create / disable / enable),
customer self-service update links, and automatic invoice notifications.
- aid: paystack:paystack-customers
name: Paystack Customers API
tags:
- Customers
- KYC
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/customer/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/customer/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-customers-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- url: json-schema/paystack-customer-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
- url: json-structure/paystack-customer-structure.json
type: JSONStructure
description: Create, list, and update customer profiles; whitelist or blacklist
customers via risk_action; deactivate stored authorizations; and run KYC validation
against customer identities.
- aid: paystack:paystack-transfers
name: Paystack Transfers API
tags:
- Payouts
- Transfers
- Bulk
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/transfer/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/transfer/
type: Documentation
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/transfer-recipient/
type: Documentation
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/bulk-charge/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-transfers-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- url: json-schema/paystack-transfer-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
- url: json-structure/paystack-transfer-structure.json
type: JSONStructure
- url: examples/paystack-initiate-transfer-example.json
type: Example
description: Send money out of your Paystack balance to bank accounts and mobile
money wallets across supported markets. Covers transfer recipients, single and
bulk transfers, OTP workflows, and bulk charges against stored authorizations.
- aid: paystack:paystack-splits-subaccounts
name: Paystack Splits and Subaccounts API
tags:
- Marketplaces
- Splits
- Subaccounts
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/split/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/split/
type: Documentation
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/subaccount/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-splits-subaccounts-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- url: json-schema/paystack-split-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
- url: json-schema/paystack-subaccount-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
- url: json-structure/paystack-split-structure.json
type: JSONStructure
- url: examples/paystack-create-split-example.json
type: Example
description: Build marketplaces by automatically splitting a single payment between
the main account and multiple subaccounts. Configure percentage or flat splits,
set fee-bearers, and manage subaccount business profiles for vendor payouts.
- aid: paystack:paystack-dedicated-virtual-accounts
name: Paystack Dedicated Virtual Accounts API
tags:
- Bank Transfer
- NUBAN
- Virtual Accounts
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/dedicated-virtual-account/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/dedicated-virtual-account/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-dedicated-virtual-accounts-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- url: examples/paystack-create-dedicated-account-example.json
type: Example
description: Provision dedicated NUBAN virtual bank accounts for individual customers
so they can pay by bank transfer with automatic reconciliation back to the customer
profile. Includes split routing on inbound transfers.
- aid: paystack:paystack-products-pages
name: Paystack Products and Payment Pages API
tags:
- Hosted Checkout
- Products
- Pages
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/products/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/products/
type: Documentation
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/page/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-products-pages-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
description: Manage products in your Paystack inventory and assemble them into Paystack-hosted
Payment Pages so you can collect payments without operating your own checkout.
- aid: paystack:paystack-payment-requests
name: Paystack Payment Requests API
tags:
- Invoices
- Payment Requests
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/payment-request/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/payment-request/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-payment-requests-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
description: Issue invoice-style payment requests to customers by email, with verification,
notification, finalization, and archival flows.
- aid: paystack:paystack-refunds-disputes
name: Paystack Refunds and Disputes API
tags:
- Refunds
- Disputes
- Chargebacks
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/refund/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/refund/
type: Documentation
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/dispute/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-refunds-disputes-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
- url: json-schema/paystack-refund-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
- url: json-schema/paystack-dispute-schema.json
type: JSONSchema
description: Process partial and full refunds against successful transactions and
respond to cardholder disputes — including evidence upload via signed URL, resolution
workflows, and exports.
- aid: paystack:paystack-settlements
name: Paystack Settlements API
tags:
- Settlements
- Treasury
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/settlement/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/settlement/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-settlements-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
description: Fetch settlement records and the underlying transactions that comprise
each payout to your bank account.
- aid: paystack:paystack-verification
name: Paystack Verification API
tags:
- Verification
- Identity
- BVN
- KYC
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/verification/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/verification/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-verification-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
description: Identity, BVN, bank account, card BIN, country, bank, and address-verification
lookups used to validate customers, beneficiary accounts, and cards before transacting.
- aid: paystack:paystack-balance
name: Paystack Balance API
tags:
- Balance
- Ledger
- Treasury
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/balance/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/balance/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-balance-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
description: Fetch your Paystack balance per currency and read the balance ledger
for treasury operations and reconciliation.
- aid: paystack:paystack-integration
name: Paystack Integration Settings API
tags:
- Integration
- Settings
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/api/integration/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/integration/
type: Documentation
- url: openapi/paystack-integration-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
description: Read and update integration-wide settings such as the payment session
timeout for hosted checkout.
- aid: paystack:paystack-webhooks
name: Paystack Webhooks
tags:
- Webhooks
- Events
- AsyncAPI
- HMAC
humanURL: https://paystack.com/docs/payments/webhooks/
properties:
- url: https://paystack.com/docs/payments/webhooks/
type: Documentation
- url: asyncapi/paystack-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
type: AsyncAPI
description: Outbound webhook surface that notifies a single merchant-configured
POST endpoint of transaction, dispute, refund, transfer, subscription, invoice,
payment request, customer identification, and dedicated virtual account events.
Every delivery is signed with an HMAC-SHA512 x-paystack-signature header keyed
by the merchant secret key, and Paystack retries non-200 responses for up to 72
hours.
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/paystack/overview
- type: ArazzoWorkflows
url: arazzo/
workflows:
- url: arazzo/paystack-add-subaccount-to-split-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Add a Subaccount to an Existing Split
summary: Create a new subaccount, add it to an existing transaction split, then
fetch the split to confirm membership.
- url: arazzo/paystack-blacklist-customer-after-dispute-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Blacklist a Customer After a Dispute
summary: List the disputes raised against a transaction, fetch the customer, then
blacklist them and deactivate the card authorization.
- url: arazzo/paystack-bulk-recipients-and-bulk-transfer-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Bulk Recipients and Bulk Transfer
summary: Bulk-create transfer recipients, list them to confirm registration, then
initiate a bulk transfer to pay them all.
- url: arazzo/paystack-charge-and-refund-transaction-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Charge and Refund a Transaction
summary: Initialize and verify a transaction, then create a refund against it
and fetch the refund status.
- url: arazzo/paystack-charge-and-submit-otp-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create Charge and Submit OTP
summary: Create a direct charge, branch when an OTP is required, submit the OTP,
then check the final charge status.
- url: arazzo/paystack-charge-and-submit-pin-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create Charge and Submit PIN
summary: Create a direct card charge, branch when a PIN is required, submit the
PIN, then check the final charge status.
- url: arazzo/paystack-check-authorization-and-partial-debit-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Check Authorization and Partial Debit
summary: Check that an authorization can bear a charge, then take a partial debit
against it for whatever is available.
- url: arazzo/paystack-create-customer-and-charge-authorization-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create Customer and Charge Authorization
summary: Create a customer, initialize a first transaction, verify it to obtain
an authorization, then charge that authorization for a recurring debit.
- url: arazzo/paystack-create-customer-and-payment-request-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create Customer and Send Payment Request
summary: Create a customer, raise an invoice-style payment request for them, send
the email notification, then verify the request.
- url: arazzo/paystack-create-customer-dedicated-virtual-account-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Provision a Dedicated Virtual Account
summary: Look up an available bank provider, create a customer, assign a dedicated
NUBAN virtual account, then fetch its details.
- url: arazzo/paystack-create-customer-plan-and-subscription-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create Customer, Plan and Subscription
summary: Create a customer, define a billing plan, then subscribe the customer
to the plan for recurring charges.
- url: arazzo/paystack-create-product-and-payment-page-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create Product and Payment Page
summary: Create a product, check a page slug is available, create a hosted payment
page, then attach the product to the page.
- url: arazzo/paystack-create-recipient-and-initiate-transfer-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create Recipient and Initiate Transfer
summary: Create a transfer recipient from bank details, initiate a transfer to
it, then verify the transfer by reference.
- url: arazzo/paystack-create-subaccount-and-split-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create Subaccount and Transaction Split
summary: Create a subaccount, build a transaction split that pays it, then initialize
a transaction against the split.
- url: arazzo/paystack-disable-and-reenable-subscription-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Disable and Re-enable a Subscription
summary: Fetch a subscription to read its email token, disable it, then re-enable
it using the same code and token.
- url: arazzo/paystack-dispute-evidence-and-resolve-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Submit Dispute Evidence and Resolve
summary: Fetch a dispute, attach evidence to it, request an upload URL for supporting
files, then resolve the dispute.
- url: arazzo/paystack-finalize-and-archive-payment-request-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Finalize and Archive a Draft Payment Request
summary: Create a draft payment request, finalize it to issue the invoice, verify
it, then archive it once handled.
- url: arazzo/paystack-initialize-and-verify-transaction-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Initialize and Verify Transaction
summary: Initialize a checkout transaction and then verify its final status by
reference.
- url: arazzo/paystack-initiate-and-finalize-transfer-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Initiate and Finalize Transfer with OTP
summary: Initiate a transfer, finalize it with the OTP sent to the business phone,
then verify the completed transfer.
- url: arazzo/paystack-initiate-and-monitor-bulk-charge-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Initiate and Monitor a Bulk Charge
summary: Initiate a bulk charge batch against saved authorizations, fetch the
batch, then list the charges in the batch.
- url: arazzo/paystack-resolve-account-and-create-recipient-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Resolve Account and Create Transfer Recipient
summary: Resolve a bank account number to confirm the account name, then create
a transfer recipient and initiate a transfer.
- url: arazzo/paystack-resolve-card-bin-and-charge-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Resolve Card BIN and Charge Authorization
summary: Resolve a card BIN to learn the card brand and country, then charge a
saved authorization for that card.
- url: arazzo/paystack-settlement-reconciliation-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Settlement Reconciliation
summary: Fetch settlement records, then list the transactions that make up a chosen
settlement payout.
- url: arazzo/paystack-subscribe-and-generate-manage-link-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Subscribe and Generate a Management Link
summary: Create a subscription, fetch it to read its status, then generate a self-service
management link for the customer.
- url: arazzo/paystack-validate-customer-kyc-workflow.yml
name: Paystack Create and Validate Customer (KYC)
summary: Create a customer, resolve their BVN, then submit a bank-account identification
to validate the customer.
- type: Portal
url: https://paystack.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://paystack.com/docs/
- type: APIReference
url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/
- type: Documentation
name: Original Paystack OpenAPI specification
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/openapi
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://paystack.com/docs/payments/accept-payments/
- type: SignUp
url: https://dashboard.paystack.com/#/signup
- type: Documentation
name: Dashboard
url: https://dashboard.paystack.com/
- type: Authentication
url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/#authentication
- type: Documentation
name: API Keys
url: https://dashboard.paystack.com/#/settings/developers
- type: Documentation
name: Webhooks
url: https://paystack.com/docs/payments/webhooks/
- type: Documentation
name: Test Cards
url: https://paystack.com/docs/payments/test-payments/
- type: Documentation
name: Errors
url: https://paystack.com/docs/api/errors/
- type: ChangeLog
url: https://paystack.com/docs/changelog/api/
- type: Blog
url: https://paystack.com/blog/
- type: Blog
name: Engineering Blog
url: https://medium.com/paystack-engineering
- type: StatusPage
url: https://status.paystack.com/
- type: Support
url: https://support.paystack.com/
- type: Pricing
name: Nigeria Pricing
url: https://paystack.com/ng/pricing
- type: Pricing
name: Ghana Pricing
url: https://paystack.com/gh/pricing
- type: Pricing
name: South Africa Pricing
url: https://paystack.com/za/pricing
- type: Pricing
name: Kenya Pricing
url: https://paystack.com/ke/pricing
- type: Pricing
name: Côte d'Ivoire Pricing
url: https://paystack.com/ci/pricing
- type: Pricing
name: Egypt Pricing
url: https://paystack.com/eg/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://paystack.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://paystack.com/privacy
- type: TrustCenter
name: Security and Compliance
url: https://paystack.com/security
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ
- type: SDK
name: Paystack PHP Library
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/paystack-php
- type: SDK
name: Paystack Android SDK
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/paystack-android
- type: SDK
name: Paystack iOS SDK (Objective-C)
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/paystack-ios
- type: SDK
name: Paystack iOS SDK (Swift)
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/paystack-sdk-ios
- type: SDK
name: Omnipay Paystack Driver
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/omnipay-paystack
- type: Plugins
name: WooCommerce
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/plugin-woocommerce
- type: Plugins
name: Magento 2
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/plugin-magento-2
- type: Plugins
name: PrestaShop 1.7
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/plugin-prestashop-1.7
- type: Plugins
name: OpenCart
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/plugin-opencart
- type: Plugins
name: WHMCS
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/plugin-whmcs
- type: Plugins
name: Moodle Enrolment
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/moodle-enrol_paystack
- type: Plugins
name: Odoo 14
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/plugin-odoo
- type: CodeExamples
name: Paystack JS Sample Code
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/PaystackJS-Sample-code
- type: CodeExamples
name: Sample Charge Card Backend
url: https://github.com/PaystackHQ/sample-charge-card-backend
- type: SpectralRules
url: rules/paystack-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
url: vocabulary/paystack-vocabulary.yml
- type: JSONLD
url: json-ld/paystack-context.jsonld
- type: Plans
url: plans/paystack-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/paystack-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/paystack-finops.yml
- type: Features
data:
- name: Hosted Checkout
description: Paystack-hosted authorization URL that handles PCI, SCA, OTP, USSD,
QR, and 3DS flows for you.
- name: Direct Charge API
description: Initiate charges programmatically with structured PIN, OTP, phone,
birthday, and address challenge steps.
- name: Recurring Subscriptions
description: Plans plus subscriptions with self-service customer management and
email/SMS invoice notifications.
- name: Transaction Splits
description: Route a single payment to multiple subaccounts on a percentage or
flat basis for marketplaces.
- name: Subaccounts
description: Vendor or merchant profiles with their own settlement bank and percentage
charge.
- name: Dedicated Virtual Accounts
description: NUBAN virtual accounts assigned to individual customers for bank-transfer-based
payments with auto-reconciliation.
- name: Payment Pages
description: No-code Paystack-hosted pages for selling products or accepting donations.
- name: Payment Requests
description: Email-based invoices with verification, notification, finalization,
and archive flows.
- name: Single and Bulk Transfers
description: Pay out from balance to bank accounts and mobile money wallets, one
at a time or as batches.
- name: Bulk Charge
description: Charge many stored authorizations in a single batch with pause and
resume controls.
- name: Refunds
description: Partial or full refunds with merchant and customer notes.
- name: Disputes and Chargebacks
description: Programmatic dispute response with signed evidence-upload URLs and
resolution workflow.
- name: Settlements
description: Read net settlement payouts and drill down into the transactions
that composed each batch.
- name: Identity Verification
description: BVN match, BVN resolution, account number resolution, card BIN lookup,
country/bank lookup, and AVS state lists.
- name: Multi-Currency
description: Accept NGN, GHS, ZAR, KES, XOF, EGP, and USD across supported markets.
- name: Multi-Channel
description: Card, bank transfer, USSD, QR, mobile money (M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Orange
Money, Wave), EFT, Apple Pay, Visa QR.
- name: Webhooks
description: Signed webhook deliveries for transaction, dispute, refund, transfer,
subscription, and invoice events with 72-hour retries.
- name: Test Mode
description: A complete test environment with test cards covering success, decline,
OTP, PIN, and 3DS flows.
- name: Dashboard
description: First-class merchant dashboard for transactions, customers, subscriptions,
transfers, settlements, and disputes.
- type: UseCases
data:
- name: E-commerce Checkout
description: Drop-in checkout for online stores accepting cards, USSD, bank transfer,
and mobile money across Africa.
- name: SaaS Recurring Billing
description: Subscription-based revenue with plans, automatic renewal, self-service
updates, and dunning.
- name: Marketplaces and Multi-Vendor Platforms
description: Split-payment routing to vendor subaccounts with platform fee retention.
- name: Cross-Border Payments
description: Accept cards from international customers while settling locally.
- name: Mobile Money Acceptance
description: M-Pesa, MTN, Orange Money, Wave acceptance in Ghana, Kenya, Côte
d'Ivoire.
- name: Bank Transfer Acceptance
description: Dedicated virtual accounts auto-reconcile inbound NUBAN transfers.
- name: Payouts and Vendor Disbursement
description: Single and bulk transfers to bank or mobile money for gig platforms
and payroll-light apps.
- name: Invoicing and B2B Collections
description: Issue payment requests by email with verification and reminders.
- name: Donations and Crowdfunding
description: Payment Pages for one-off donations or product sales without writing
checkout code.
- type: Integrations
data:
- name: WooCommerce
description: Official Paystack payment gateway for WooCommerce stores.
- name: Magento and Magento 2
description: Official Magento extensions for Paystack acceptance.
- name: PrestaShop
description: Plugins for PrestaShop 1.6 and 1.7.
- name: OpenCart
description: OpenCart extensions for Paystack.
- name: WHMCS
description: Hosting and billing platform integration.
- name: Moodle
description: Course enrolment via Paystack.
- name: Odoo
description: Payment gateway integration for Odoo 14.
- name: Omnipay
description: Paystack gateway driver for the PHP Omnipay payment-abstraction library.
- name: Joomla, Drupal, Ghost, Wordpress
description: Community and official plugins across major CMS platforms.
- name: Stripe
description: Paystack is a Stripe subsidiary; merchants can operate in Stripe-aligned
multi-region setups.
- type: Solutions
data:
- name: Online Businesses
description: Hosted checkout for e-commerce and SaaS.
- name: Marketplaces
description: Splits + subaccounts for multi-vendor platforms.
- name: Subscription Businesses
description: Plans, subscriptions, and dunning for recurring revenue.
- name: Platforms and Apps
description: Transfers, dedicated virtual accounts, and identity verification
for fintech and platform builds.
- name: Education and Nonprofits
description: Payment Pages and Payment Requests for donations and tuition collection.
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-30'
position: Consuming
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: info@apievangelist.com
X: apievangelist
url: https://apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.16'