South African Payment Gateway integrations
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Onno Vrijburg
Hi, I have a few customers in South Africa and right now there is no way for them to actually accept payments through GHL as Stripe is not available in South Africa and as far as I could see PayPal does not allow linking to a South African Bank Account. Your new (planned) integration with Authorize.net is also not an option as it's also not available in South Africa. Could you please consider adding one of the payment gateways in this article ( https://sashares.co.za/payment-gateways/#gs.hl6esj ) so my customers can take payments through GHL.
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Kevin Pohl
Quick update for all our South African friends... Payfast is now also available on the App Marketplace, free to use for the next few months. GHL has promised us SaaS mode and rebilling by end of this quarter on these apps, so it's not going to be long now till your agencies can go to the Next Level! Go get Payfast installed, or Paystack (We have both now) and get going.
We've started work on Peach Payments next.
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Kevin Pohl
Now that Paystack has been live for a while it was time we dropped the next payment gateway. Our Payfast App has been submitted for approval on the App Marketplace a few days ago. Within DAYS, you'll have your choice between Payfast and Paystack, the two biggest players in this space in South Africa.
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Kevin Pohl
🚨 Big News for Our South African Friends! 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce that our Paystack app is now officially FREE for the next 60 days! 🎉
We heard your feedback about the installation challenges due to the Stripe connection requirement at the agency level, and we’ve taken action.
Starting today, EVERY South African Agency, and agencies from Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya can install and use our Paystack app at no cost, and without needing Stripe connected first.
When the GHL team releases SaaS mode for the custom payments apps, Stripe will no longer be required, at which point we will resume charging for our app. But until then, we wanted every South African Agency owner (and others) to get going today!
Go to the App Marketplace, look for the Paystack App, and get stacking!
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Nathan Visser
Kevin Pohl Hi, I've tried following this guide but with no luck. You can see the attached image that "Paystack" doesn't appear inside App Marketplace. Please assist.
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Kevin Pohl
Nathan Visser Hi there Nathan, the Search bar in there is notoriously buggy with surfacing the right app. Use the Categories and look for Third Party Providers. You can also click on All Apps. If you still don't see it, it is often a Browser Cache issue... just hard refresh your browser, or get rid of all cookies and try again. It's there, without a doubt :)
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Nathan Visser
Kevin Pohl I do apologize. However, I had to go to "Agency View" in order to find it. I couldn't access it through the sub-account. Thanks though
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Elmarie Van Staden
Kevin PohlHi Kevin. This is such great news and a much anticipated change. OBVS I immediately downloaded and started integrating - thing is, it's only available on sub acc level, is there a way to integrate with our agency acc as well so we can re-bill clients etc?
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Kevin Pohl
Elmarie Van Staden Hi there... GHL has only made subaccount payments available at this time, BUT they are working on SaaS Mode and Re-billing for these custom payment apps, which they have announced publicly. GHL has the timeline as before end of this quarter...so that's just a month away. We are in constant contact with their team and are working closely with them to make sure whatever they make available we support. We also just released Payfast this morning.
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Kevin Pohl
Happy to announce, our Paystack Integration is now live on the HighLevel App Marketplace!
Go To All Apps, or Third Party Providers, Install to a subaccount, in that subaccount under Payments > Integrations, connect Paystack and remember to set it as Default Payment Method.
We're so happy about this progress, and thankful for the HighLevel team who made this API available and helped us get Paystack ready and out there for all South Africans and those abroad.
HighLevel payments is now OPEN for business in Africa. 🎉
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Rijn x Create Hartman
Kevin Pohl works great so far!
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Kevin Pohl
Rijn x Create Hartman Thanks so much for the feedback Rijn and very happy you're enjoying it.
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Johan Lottering
Oh, this is excellent news. I've been begging for a South African payment gateway integration since the early days of GHL. Please get it up and running ASAP.
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Kevin Pohl
Johan Lottering It's days away. Just waiting for the HL team to approve the app on the app marketplace.
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Mark Alfred Mack
Kevin Pohl Due to Paystack payment gateway not being available on GHL I have decided not to use GHL in South Africa. No use using an app that has barriers / constraints in generating income in South Africa. Will not be joining GHL until this issue is sorted. Regards Mark
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Kevin Pohl
Mark Alfred Mack I'm just an agency owner myself (not on the HL team) who is making an effort to create the integrations we all need. Hasn't stopped me or a whole bunch of others from doing business here though.
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Kevin Pohl
Mark Alfred Mack Paystack is live on the App Marketplace NOW. Have fun!
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Kevin Pohl
Johan Lottering Paystack is out now! Enjoy!
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Johan Lottering
Kevin Pohl, I cannot get it installed as it needs a card for the sub account, Unless I miss something I cannot add card details in the sub account before I connect to stripe.
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Kevin Pohl
Johan Lottering Hey Johan, yeah it's a restriction on GHL's part on how they can handle payments in-app for Marketplace Apps at the moment. We have a sitdown with the payments team on Monday, they will provide a solution to get around this restriction.
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Kevin Pohl
Mark Alfred Mack Paystack is available on the App marketplace now, Free to install and you don't need a Stripe connection to install it. SaaS Mode is coming soon.
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Kevin Pohl
Johan Lottering We just made it free to install, you no longer need Stripe for the time being... Install it and start using it for free today.
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Elmarie Van Staden
Any feedback/update on this?
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Kevin Pohl
Elmarie Van Staden Our Paystack App is now available and free to use for everyone. Go to the App marketplace and install it for free today. No Stripe connection is required to get going.
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Rijn x Create Hartman
They're really slow on getting this done
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Kevin Pohl
Rijn x Create Hartman Not long now.... :)
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Rochelle Annette Muller
Kevin Pohl Any progress? its now 30 days later. Hopefully you guys have managed to get this so it can go live. We are battling on Agency level in South Africa.
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Kevin Pohl
Rochelle Annette Muller Our Paystack App went through Beta last week through flying colours. We've submitted to the HighLevel App Store for approval... you are days away from being able to accept Payments locally. It's in the HighLevel Teams' hands now to get it approved for the app store.
This new custom payments API only supports sub-account payments though, Shaun mentioned SaaS support will come soon. What exactly are you struggling with at the Agency level?
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Rochelle Annette Muller
Kevin Pohl Thank you for all that you are doing for us in SA! cannot wait for it to be released, will be sooo sooo glad.
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Rochelle Annette Muller
Kevin Pohl WRT struggling on Agency level with integrating other payment methods, it only has stripe to integrate. Ive loaded PayPal now under integrations
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Kevin Pohl
Rochelle Annette Muller There are agency owners in Pretoria and Joburg who have over 1000 users on their platforms. Don't struggle too much :) there are solutions, even if not the smoothest. That said, we're enabling every agency owner in South Africa. Subaccounts will finally now be able to do commerce, we're just days away from that reality, and as soon as SaaS mode is made available on this API our team will be on it.
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Kevin Pohl thank you for all you do. Looking forward to having functions active
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Kevin Pohl
E P Incredibly welcome!
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Lara Sklaar
Any news? What about paystack? They advertize stripe integration??
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Rijn x Create Hartman
Lara Sklaar GHL is useless in helping with the payment gateway.. I'm also in SA, trying to use paypal but it's not loading on the invoices
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Kevin Pohl
Lara Sklaar our team is working on custom Paystack and Payfast integrations and will have them done soon.
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Chomba Chuma
Kevin Pohl That's great to hear. I was also thinking of getting it done, but will wait to see what comes out of this.
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Rochelle Annette Muller
Chomba Chuma have you heard anything from Kevin Pohl ?
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Chomba Chuma
Rochelle Annette Muller - Not yet... but by the current updates, he seems to be getting somewhere. I've shelved my plans to make one while we wait for his solution.
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Kevin Pohl
Lara Sklaar Our paystack App is available on the App Marketplace now, for Free for a limited time. You don't need a Stripe connection to get going. SaaS Mode is coming in near future.
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Kevin Pohl
Eugene Britz and others: As one of the first South African Agencies to join this platform, we've eagerly anticipated this moment. With the recent release of the custom payment API, we are actively working on integrating all the major South African payment gateways. Payfast integration is already in progress, and we aim to have a working version by the end of the month. Soon you'll have a handful of options your customers can use to accept payments.
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Eugene Britz
Kevin Pohl - Great Stuff Man!!! Just in time for the Amazone rush. Whats your agency name? Will be great to have a chat. Not sure if we aloud to share on this platform?
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Kevin Pohl
Eugene Britz Find me in the Facebook group.
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Ruan Baker
Kevin Pohl Hi Kevin I reached out to you on your agency email. Hope that we can connect and have a chat as we have a lot of clients that needs this in SA.
Hope to hear from you soon!
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Tolulope world Team
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