Paystack has rolled out South Africa’s first onsite card checkout for Shopify, letting shoppers enter their card details and pay without leaving the merchant’s checkout page. The update removes a redirect step that has long been a common source of abandoned carts, and it arrives just as retailers gear up for Black Friday.
What the new checkout actually changes
Previously, completing a card payment on many Shopify stores meant customers got bounced to a separate payment page before their purchase went through. That extra click, however small it seems, is often where shoppers lose momentum and drop off. Paystack’s new onsite checkout keeps the entire payment step inside the same checkout flow customers are already using, so there’s no jump to another page and no added friction between choosing a product and paying for it.
A second update ties online and in-store sales together
Alongside the onsite checkout, Paystack is also rolling out a Shopify integration for Paystack Terminal, its in-person card payment device. This links payments taken in a physical store to a merchant’s Shopify account, giving businesses that sell both online and in person a single, connected view of their sales rather than two separate systems.
Mechiel Couvaras, a senior account manager at Paystack South Africa, pointed out that many merchants now serve customers both online and across the counter, often at the same time, which is exactly why connecting Paystack Terminal to Shopify matters for that kind of hybrid retail business.
What this means for South African merchants
For Shopify store owners in South Africa, the practical takeaway is fairly simple. Card payments can now happen directly within the store’s own checkout, which should reduce the number of shoppers who abandon their cart at the final step. For merchants running a physical store alongside their online shop, in-person card payments through Paystack Terminal will now appear alongside online sales in their Shopify account, instead of living in a separate system.
Paystack, originally built in Nigeria and now operating across several African markets since its acquisition by Stripe, has been steadily expanding its footprint in South Africa’s e-commerce space. This latest move puts it in more direct competition with other payment providers serving Shopify merchants in the country, at a time of year when checkout speed and reliability can directly affect a retailer’s bottom line.
