Payments

Your information is confidential and will never be shared with third parties.

Our store is billed 2% Transaction fees from Shopify and average 3% from PayFast transactions, totalling 5% - We would appreciate the understanding with our product prices and if possible prefer EFT transfers for products as just our running costs payments are at least 50% of our company profits.

Payments on the Seacret shop are handled by PayU and their Safeshop Payment Gateway - certified to PCI DSS Level 1. Your credit card details and personal information will NEVER be disclosed to any third parties, unless obliged to do so by law.

As a customer; you also have certain legal obligations, similar to any other shopping experience. 

We accept payments from:

Visa Visa
MasterCard MasterCard
Instant EFT
MasterCard

Credit Card

mobicred MobiCred
MasterPass
Zapper Zapper

 

Crypto Payments

Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash
Ethereum
Ethereum
Litecoin
Litecoin

Security and Fraud

PayFast is committed to keeping you, your customers and all sensitive information secure.
PCI-DSS Level 1 Service Provider Compliant

 

We take the data security of our merchants and their buyers very seriously

We have a multitude of automated and manual checks in place to protect both buyers and sellers from fraudulent transactions. Online retail has a fraud rate between 1 and 2% of all transactions. Through effective controls, PayFast’s is currently below 0.1% and still going down.

 

How we keep your business secure

Our security protocols are as, if not more, robust than South African banks.


PCI-DSS Level 1 Compliant

All your customers' credit card payments are done in our secure environment.


Secure servers

Our website, payments page and help site are hosted on secure servers, safeguarding against phishing attacks.


3D Secure

This extra layer of security is used for all online transactions using a credit card.


GEO IP Tracking

By monitoring where transactions originate from we can look for mismatches with the card’s issuing country.


BIN/IIN Validation

Checks the card-issuing bank locations and merchants can choose to enable/disable payments from certain countries.


Fraud Reviews

All suspicious transactions are manually reviewed by our support team.


Extended Validation SSL

We use Extended Validation SSL with 2048-bit encryption, the highest level encryption available.


ASV Scans on a weekly basis

We run weekly network scans to look for new possible vulnerabilities and certify quarterly.


Two-factor authentication

This extra layer of security is available to restrict access to your PayFast account.


Validation checks

Payments and card details are automatically checked against large online databases of blacklisted details.


Web application firewall

PayFast utilises WAF technologies to detect and stop malicious activity before it reaches our servers.


Coinbase Crypto Payments

Coinbase Payments Limited is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (FRN: 900635) for the issuing of electronic money.