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Modern online and offline payments for Africa

Paystack helps businesses in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world

Simple, easy payments

Building a business is hard. Getting paid shouldn't be.

Delight customers with a seamless payments experience

Give your customers the gift of modern, frictionless, painless payments. Integrate Paystack once and let your customers pay you however they want.

  • Card
  • Bank Account
  • Bank Transfer
  • USSD
  • Apple Pay
  • Visa QR
  • Mobile Money
  • POS (Coming soon)
  • Enjoy phenomenal transaction success rates

    We automatically route payments through the most optimal channels, ensuring the highest transaction success rates in the market.

    Find out how we achieve high success rate

    Build custom payments experiences with well-documented APIs

    Developers love our thorough, well-documented APIs that let you to build everything from simple weekend projects, to complex financial products serving hundreds of thousands of customers. If you can imagine it, you can build it with Paystack.

  • Collect one-time and recurring payments from your app or website
  • Make instant transfers
  • Retrieve all your transaction and customer data
  • Verify the identity of customers
  • Paystack API Quickstart

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    Protect yourself and your customers with advanced fraud detection

    Paystack's combination of automated and manual fraud systems protect you from fraudulent transactions and associated chargeback claims.

    Detailed reporting for accounting, reconciliation, and audits

    Understand your customers' purchase patterns and do easy reconciliations with a robust data Dashboard and easy exports.

    Trusted by 70,000+ businesses

    Thousands of organizations of all sizes trust Paystack to grow their business.

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    Paystack for
    Global Brands

    We help global brands accept payments from across Africa

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    Paystack for
    Entrepreneurs

    From startup to scale-up, we can support you at every stage of your businesses’ growth

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    Paystack for
    Large Organizations

    Paystack helps many of the largest corporate and government organizations in Nigeria get paid quickly and securely.

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    Powering growth for amazing businesses

    Paystack is a growth engine for a new generation of innovative, forward-looking organizations operating in Africa.

    Backed by strong global partners

    Paystack is backed by notable investors as well as some of the best payments companies on the planet.

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    Paystack is highly technical and fanatically customer oriented. We’re excited to back such people in one of the world’s fastest-growing regions.

    Patrick Collinson
    CEO, Stripe
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    Our investment in Paystack aligns with the kind of investments we look for - those that will help extend our reach into the global commerce ecosystem

    Otto Williams
    Head of Strategic Partnerships, Fintech & Ventures CEMEA, Visa
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    As YC's first Nigerian startup Paystack leads the charge of great companies coming out of Africa, powering modern payments for an entire continent.

    Michael Siebel
    CEO, Partner, Y-Combinator

    Try Paystack Now

    Start accepting payments in just 30 minutes

    Try Paystack Now

    Start accepting payments in just 30 minutes

    Lagos
    126 Joel Ogunnaike Street,
    Ikeja GRA, Ikeja,
    Lagos, Nigeria
    Accra
    AfricaWorks,
    35 Patrice Lumumba Road,
    Airport Residential Area,
    Accra, Ghana
    San Francisco
    354 Oyster Point Blvd.,
    South San Francisco,
    CA 94080
    United States
    Capetown
    HOUSE_OF,
    Elkay House (4th Floor),
    186 Loop St, Cape Town City Centre,
    Cape Town, 8001,
    South Africa