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wearechilli/commerce-payfast
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Payfast payment gateway for Craft Commerce

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Payfast payment gateway for Craft Commerce
==========================================

[](#payfast-payment-gateway-for-craft-commerce)

This plugin provides a [Payfast](https://www.payfast.co.za/) integration for [Craft Commerce](https://craftcms.com/commerce).

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This plugin requires Craft 3.6 and Craft Commerce 3.3 or later.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install this plugin from the Plugin Store or with Composer.

#### From the Plugin Store

[](#from-the-plugin-store)

Go to the Plugin Store in your project’s Control Panel and search for Payfast for Craft Commerce”. Then click on the “Install” button in its modal window.

#### With Composer

[](#with-composer)

Open your terminal and run the following commands:

```
# go to the project directory
cd /path/to/my-project.test

# tell Composer to load the plugin
composer require wearechilli/commerce-payfast

# tell Craft to install the plugin
./craft install/plugin commerce-payfast
```

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

To add a Payfast payment gateway, go to Commerce → Settings → Gateways, create a new gateway, and set the gateway type to “Payfast”.

> **Tip:** The API Key settings can be set to environment variables. See [Environmental Configuration](https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/config/environments.html) in the Craft docs to learn more about that.

###  Health Score

28

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LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance33

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 70.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~171 days

Recently: every ~213 days

Total

6

Last Release

675d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/def3f28037345040ca021ca843ef7b3ffe702f45a15e5f6a2c5de016c9ccce3d?d=identicon)[wearechilli](/maintainers/wearechilli)

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Top Contributors

[![stenvdb](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/362222?v=4)](https://github.com/stenvdb "stenvdb (12 commits)")[![remcovb](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/23652776?v=4)](https://github.com/remcovb "remcovb (5 commits)")

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Tags

yii2craftcmspayfastcommerce

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