Secure payment by PAYFAST
How PAYFAST keeps your transactions secure
Our security protocols are as, if not more, robust than South African banks.
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PCI-DSS Level 1 Compliant
All your customers’ credit card payments are done in our secure environment.
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Secure servers
Our website, payments page and help site are hosted on secure servers, safeguarding against phishing attacks.
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3D Secure
This extra layer of security is used for all online transactions using a credit card.
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3D Secure 2
An improved mobile-first level of authentication for online transactions using a credit card.
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GEO IP Tracking
By monitoring where transactions originate from we can look for mismatches with the card’s issuing country.
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BIN/IIN Validation
Checks the card-issuing bank locations and merchants can choose to enable/disable payments from certain countries.
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Extended Validation SSL
We use Extended Validation SSL with 2048-bit encryption, the highest level encryption available.
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ASV Scans on a weekly basis
We run weekly network scans to look for new possible vulnerabilities and certify quarterly.
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Two-factor authentication
This extra layer of security is available to restrict access to your Payfast account.
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Validation checks
Payments and card details are automatically checked against large online databases of blacklisted details.
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Web application firewall
Payfast utilises WAF technologies to detect and stop malicious activity before it reaches our servers.
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Fraud Reviews
All suspicious transactions are manually reviewed by our support team.
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