Payments
Storeforge never touches your money. Card payments run through your own Yoco, PayGate or PayPal account and settle straight into your own bank account; we charge you a flat monthly fee for the software, nothing per sale.
Yoco
Get your secret key from the Yoco app: Manage, Connect, Checkout API, then tap How to connect. Yoco keeps the live key locked until you add your shop's web address under Verified Domains on that same page; test keys work straight away.
Add your Yoco secret key under Settings, Payments. The moment you save a key, Storeforge registers its own webhook with Yoco for your shop specifically, so payment confirmations come straight back to your store. Until that webhook is armed (registered and confirmed), your shop can't take real live card payments, only test ones, so a half-finished setup can never charge a real customer without paying out.
PayGate
An alternative to Yoco if that's who you bank with. Same idea: your own merchant details, card payments only for now. Test mode always uses PayGate's own public test account, even if you've saved real credentials, so testing never risks a real card.
PayPal
You can offer PayPal alongside card as an extra choice. Set it up under Settings, PayPal. Because PayPal doesn't settle in rand, you set a conversion rate and the converted amount is fixed the moment a customer starts paying.
Selling on account (EFT, invoice, pay on delivery)
If your customers are on credit terms, turn on "selling on account" under Settings, Selling on account. These orders go through with no payment step; you mark them paid by hand once the money is in.
Pay-by-link
Any order that isn't paid yet, whether it's on-account or a manual order, gets a link you can copy or WhatsApp to the customer so they can pay by card without placing a fresh order.
Test mode vs live
Every shop starts in test mode, where the built-in simulator stands in for a real card so you can try the whole flow safely. Switching to live mode needs a confirmed email and (for card payments) an armed webhook.
Questions about connecting a specific provider? [email protected].
Still stuck? [email protected] or WhatsApp 073 429 5517.