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Payment Processing

The Payment Processing tab connects payment gateways to your project so your order forms, paid meeting bookings and online store can charge real money. Connect one or several.

Before you start

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Fill in the Business Details tab first. Most gateways require your business information before they’ll connect, and it appears on customer receipts. If anything is missing, the gateway cards stay greyed out.

Supported gateways

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GatewayWhat you enter
StripePublishable Key + Secret Key
PayPalClient ID + Secret Key
RazorpayKey ID + Secret Key
SquareApplication ID + Access Token + Location ID
Easy Pay DirectPrivate Security Key + Public Security Key + Webhook Signing Key
PaystackPublic Key + Secret Key — then a webhook URL in your Paystack dashboard (see below)

Connecting a gateway

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  1. Click Connect on the gateway card.
  2. Fill in the credentials from your gateway’s dashboard.
  3. Click Connect My Account.

The card shows Active once connected. Use Edit to update keys or Remove to disconnect (a confirmation appears first).

Paystack

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Paystack takes payments in NGN, GHS, ZAR, KES, XOF and USD. USD is open to Nigerian and Kenyan Paystack accounts only. It works on order forms (one-off products, subscriptions and free trials), paid meetings and the online store checkout.

  1. In the Paystack dashboard, open Settings → API Keys & Webhooks and copy a Public Key and a Secret Key of the same mode: pk_test_ + sk_test_ while you test, pk_live_ + sk_live_ when you go live. A typo or a mixed pair is refused with Invalid API Key provided.
  2. Click Connect on the Paystack card, paste both keys and click Connect My Account.
  3. Click Settings on the Paystack card. It holds your keys and the webhook block: copy the URL, paste it into the same Paystack page — into Test Webhook URL for test keys or Live Webhook URL for live ones — save there, then click I’ve added it. Paystack has no way for us to register it for you.
  4. Make a test purchase. The webhook status turns to Webhook works when Paystack’s first event arrives (usually within seconds of paying).
  5. In your ESTAGE CRM, add Paystack to the payment providers of each product it should sell. The currency menu then offers only what Paystack can charge in.

Why the webhook matters. One-off purchases are recorded without it. Subscription renewals, refunds, and a purchase whose buyer closed the tab right after paying are recorded only through the webhook.

Good to know

  • Switching to live keys? Paste the URL again, this time into Live Webhook URL. The status starts over until a live event arrives.
  • One Paystack account on several projects? Paystack keeps one webhook URL per account. Paste the URL of just one of those projects; it serves all of them, and the others say so in their Settings.
  • Free trials take a small card check (for example ZAR 1 or NGN 50) that is refunded at once; the first real charge comes when the trial ends.
  • What buyers see: Paystack’s checkout opens over your page. If their browser won’t let it open there, they pay on Paystack’s own checkout page and come straight back to your site.