Accept PayTabs
payments on Phoca Cart
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for Phoca Cart, connect your PayTabs account, and PayTabs appears as a payment option at checkout. No custom gateway code, and no second integration when you add another provider later.
- SAR
- AED
- EGP
- KWD
- OMR
- JOD
- USD
- Platform
- Joomla 4.0+
- Provider
- PayTabs
- Install via
- Extensions → Manage → Install
- Billing
- One-time
- PaymentHood fee
- None
PayTabs on Phoca Cart at a glance
- Joomla version
- Joomla 4.0+
- Where you install it
- Joomla admin → Extensions → Manage → Install
- Coverage
-
- Saudi Arabia
- United Arab Emirates
- Egypt
- Kuwait
- Oman
- Jordan
- Iraq
- Currencies
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- SAR
- AED
- EGP
- KWD
- OMR
- JOD
- USD
- Billing models
- One-time checkout payments. Recurring billing is not supported by the Phoca Cart plugin yet.
- Cost
- The plugin is free and open source. You pay PayTabs's own fees, published on their pricing page (opens in new tab). PaymentHood adds nothing on top.
Coverage, currencies and payment methods as published by PayTabs, who set and update them. For the current list see PayTabs's own documentation (opens in new tab).
What Phoca Cart customers can pay with
Each method PayTabs supports appears in your Phoca Cart checkout. Enabling one is a PaymentHood dashboard setting — nothing changes on the Joomla side.
Cards
Visa, Mastercard, American Express, mada, UnionPay and Maestro
Digital wallets
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and STC Pay
Local methods
KNET, valu, aman and Meeza QR
Buy now, pay later
Tabby and regional instalment options
Connect PayTabs to Phoca Cart
Four steps, no code. The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the Phoca Cart installation guide.
Open a PayTabs account
Register with PayTabs and finish their onboarding. Funds settle from PayTabs to your own bank account.
Add it in PaymentHood
Paste your PayTabs credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They stay server-side and never reach your storefront.
Install the plugin
Download the Phoca Cart plugin and install it from Extensions → Manage → Install in your Joomla admin.
Enable and test
Paste your PaymentHood API key into the plugin settings, run a sandbox order end to end, then switch to live.
Rather than a direct PayTabs plugin
A single-provider plugin works until you need a second provider. These are the parts you would otherwise build and maintain yourself.
- Webhook security
- Signed transaction callback, validated before an order is released
- Payment verification
- Server-side transaction query against the PayTabs API before fulfilment
- Credentials
- Profile ID and server key, held server-side in PaymentHood
- Add a second provider without touching your Phoca Cart checkout
- Automatic failover when PayTabs is unreachable, instead of a failed order
- Idempotent charge creation, so a double-submitted order is not a double charge
- One reconciliation view across every provider you run
- Free and open source — read the plugin on GitHub (opens in new tab)