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# PayFast

## Connecting PayFast as Payment Gateway

PayFast is a South African payment processor that uses ZAR (South African Rand) in payments.

To connect, select PayFast from your Payment Provider list. You will then need to log into your PayFast account and retrieve the following information:

* **Merchant ID**
* **Merchant Key**
* **Passphrase**

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Even though Passphrase says optional, it is needed to process subscriptions or recurring payments.
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## What To Do Inside Your PayFast Account

### To Connect Your Account

**To find your Merchant ID and Key after your account has been verified, do the following:**

1. Log in to your PayFast account.
2. Navigate to Account > Personal Information.
3. Your Merchant ID and Key can be found on the top right-hand corner of the page.

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## To Process Recurring Payments with PayFast

To process recurring payments, tokenization has to be enabled.

### **To enable these types of recurring payments, do the following:**

1. Navigate to Settings > Developer Settings.

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2. Ensure that a Security Passphrase is set on your account. If this field is blank, please enter a passphrase and click Save. Then copy this passphrase into your Stacklii account settings as mentioned above.

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3. Navigate to Settings > Recurring Billing and toggle  Enable Tokenization to Enabled to activate the setting.

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For more information on tokenization, refer to our [Tokenisation feature page](https://www.payfast.co.za/features/tokenization). &#x20;


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