What is Paystack and how does it work?

Paystack is a payment service provider that facilitates easy, fast and secure online and in-person payments for African businesses.

With our variety of no-code, low-code and pro-code tools, you can seamlessly integrate Paystack into your business and start accepting payments within minutes. You can also choose to use other Paystack features in our product suite, like recurring payments, invoicing, subscription billing, and split payments, so you can quickly and conveniently serve your customers' needs.

Our services are available only to businesses registered in Nigeria 🇳🇬, Ghana 🇬🇭, South Africa 🇿🇦 and Kenya 🇰🇪, but we aim to serve merchants across Africa soon.

If we aren’t live in your country yet, you can subscribe to our waitlist here to get a message from us as soon as we launch our services in your country. You can also subscribe to the Paystack blog to avoid missing new product updates and announcements.

Important to note

We're currently running a private beta program in Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, and Rwanda. To learn more about the program and to join, click here.

Over 200,000 businesses across the continent — both registered and unregistered — use Paystack to process payments. Paystack has everything you need to meet your business goals at every scale level.

We cater to businesses from numerous industries, including banking & loan services, investment and savings services, hospitality services, transport companies, betting companies, religious organisations, NGOs, media companies, local e-commerce businesses and many more.

Companies like MTN and UPS in Nigeria, Betway and Safari Valley Resort in Ghana, Rentoza and Grandilla in South Africa, and ANDO Foods in Kenya trust Paystack to power their businesses.

Explore how our services have empowered businesses of all sizes to navigate challenges and capitalize on opportunities.

These real-world stories highlight our positive impact on businesses in Africa. With Paystack, you can go beyond simple payment collections to create an experience that will delight your customers and help you grow your business:

How PiggyVest Powers Savings for Over 2 Million Nigerians With Paystack

How Moove uses Paystack to empower mobility entrepreneurs

How Granadilla Swim uses Paystack to take Cape Town swimwear global

How visual artist "Shutabug" sells art online with Paystack

You can visit this YouTube playlist for more merchant case studies and our Wall of Love for a detailed list of our testimonials.

Take our demo checkout for a spin at paystack.com/demo. Our live demo means real money will be withdrawn from your account. Please choose an amount you can afford to give away 😊

With our interactive developer documentation, you can see how to receive payments, make transfers, and more with the Paystack API.

We also organize a webinar every two weeks to give merchants a live, guided tour of the powerful tools available on Paystack. To join the Paystack Live Demo Webinar, all you need to do is register for it here.