Technology answer

PayFast

39

companies run it, <0.01% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 52 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, <0.01%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

No published series

39 companies is under the publication floor of 1,000, and the fixed panel anchored at 31 Dec 2020 carries 10 of them. A monthly line drawn off that many observations would be noise at the same weight as a line off millions, so this page states the count and its date and publishes no series.

First discovered 12 Oct 2023, last discovered 9 Sept 2026.

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 39each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator

Companies

Share

companies in the index

54,527,857

<0.01%

companies running anything in Payments

2,449,480

<0.01%

companies running anything in Payment processors and gateways

1,780,069

<0.01%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, PayFast is rank 63 of 92 technologies in Payment processors and gateways.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 9 Sept 2026

A South African online payment gateway for merchants to accept local and card payments.

PayFast provides payment processing and checkout integrations for South African businesses, supporting cards and local methods. It handles transaction processing, settlements, and merchant services.

Kindproduct

VendorPayFast, payfast.co.za

PathCommerce and Payments > Payments > Payment processors and gateways

Slugpayfast

Deploymentsaas

Pricingusage based

Open sourceno

First discovered2023-10-12

Last discovered2026-09-09

Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10

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Subcategory answerPayment processors and gatewaysCompanies running anything in Payment processors and gateways, 1,780,069 of 54,527,857 in the index, and the technologies ranked in it.Category answerPaymentsThe category above this one, with its subcategories and the companies in each.CatalogueAll 8,177 technologiesRanked by the companies running them, with the publication gate named and the long tail drawn.