Give – Paystack Gateway

The Give – Paystack Gateway plugin integrates the popular Paystack payment processor with GiveWP, allowing you to accept donations from supporters across Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa and Kenya. Paystack provides a secure, reliable payment infrastructure that supports multiple payment methods including cards, bank transfers, and mobile money.

This plugin requires the GiveWP plugin to be activated to function properly. When activated, it adds Paystack as a payment gateway option for your donation forms.

Features

• Secure Payments: Accept donations through Paystack’s secure payment infrastructure
• Multiple Payment Methods: Support for cards, bank transfers, and mobile money
• Seamless Integration: Works perfectly with GiveWP’s donation forms
• Transaction Management: View and manage donations directly from your WordPress dashboard
• Test Mode: Built-in test mode for safe testing before going live

Supported Countries

Paystack currently supports businesses in:
* Nigeria
* Ghana
* Kenya
* South Africa

Intuitive Dashboard

Use the Paystack dashboard to manage your customers, payments, and track your growth.

Fraud Protection

For Paystack, stopping fraud is top priority. We’ve used machine learning to minimize risks, reduce chargebacks and its associated costs. Paystack’s fraud systems is built to learn. And so it’s continually adapting to both local and international fraud.

We screen every transaction by checking the IP, history, geolocation etc. to proactively identify fraudulent transactions. The entire network is used to prevent fraud. We learn from card and device fingerprints used to pay across different merchants.

Multiple Channels

We’ve done all the heavy lifting such that you can immediately start accepting payments across all channels. Allow your customers make payments via their credit/debit card, bank accounts, USSD and Mobile Money.

Paystack Go!

Track your business performance in the palm of your hand with Paystack Go! – This is a Progressive Web App that gives you access to your dashboard even when you are offline. You can easily look up transactions, track your businesses, and send invoices on the go.

If your Paystack business has been activated, simply visit go.paystack.com on your mobile phone to use Paystack Go.

Requirements

• Active Paystack account

Automatic Installation

1. Log in to your WordPress dashboard
2. Navigate to Plugins > Add New
3. Search for “Give Paystack”
4. Click “Install Now” and then “Activate”
5. Navigate to Donations > Settings > Payment Gateways > Paystack
6. Enter your Paystack API keys and configure settings

Manual Installation

1. Download the plugin zip file
2. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/give-paystack-gateway directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
4. Navigate to Donations > Settings > Payment Gateways > Paystack
5. Enter your Paystack API keys and configure settings

Configuration

After installation, you’ll need to:

1. Create a Paystack account at https://paystack.com
2. Get your API keys from your Paystack dashboard
3. Enter the keys in the plugin settings
4. Configure your preferred settings
5. Test the integration using test mode

1. 

   Donation form with Paystack payment option

2. 

   Paystack payment interface with Card Payment option

3. 

   Paystack payment interface with Mobile Money option

3.0.0: October 1st, 2025

• New: The Paystack team has partnered with GiveWP to hand over ownership of this plugin in order to provide maintenance and support!
• New: Paystack is now compatible with the latest version of GiveWP (4.10.0+) and can be used with campaigns, option-based forms and the visual form builder.