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Ozow Payment Gateway for WooCommerce

Accept Ozow payments on WooCommerce with the free PaymentHood plugin. Install in minutes, no gateway code.

WooCommerce · South Africa

Accept Ozow
payments on WooCommerce

Install the free PaymentHood plugin for WooCommerce, connect your Ozow account, and Ozow appears as a payment option at checkout. No custom gateway code, and no second integration when you add another provider later.

  • ZAR
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WooCommerce 6.0+
2 payment methods
Free plugin
WooCommerce
Ozow
Platform
WooCommerce 6.0+
Provider
Ozow
Install via
Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
Billing
One-time
PaymentHood fee
None
Compatibility

Ozow on WooCommerce at a glance

WooCommerce version
WooCommerce 6.0+
Where you install it
WordPress admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
Coverage
  • South Africa
Currencies
  • ZAR
Billing models
One-time checkout payments. Recurring billing is not supported by the WooCommerce plugin yet.
Cost
The plugin is free and open source. You pay Ozow's own fees, published on their pricing page. PaymentHood adds nothing on top.

Coverage, currencies and payment methods as published by Ozow, who set and update them. For the current list see Ozow's own site.

Payment methods

What WooCommerce customers can pay with

Each method Ozow supports appears in your WooCommerce checkout. Enabling one is a PaymentHood dashboard setting — nothing changes on the WordPress side.

Instant EFT

Customer authorises a real-time bank transfer during checkout

Bank API payments

Direct bank-API rails where the customer's bank supports them

Setup

Connect Ozow to WooCommerce

Four steps, no code. The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the WooCommerce installation guide.

1

Open a Ozow account

Register with Ozow and finish their onboarding. Funds settle from Ozow to your own bank account.

2

Add it in PaymentHood

Paste your Ozow credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They stay server-side and never reach your storefront.

3

Install the plugin

Download the WooCommerce plugin and install it from Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin in your WordPress admin.

4

Enable and test

Paste your PaymentHood API key into the plugin settings, run a sandbox order end to end, then switch to live.

Full WooCommerce installation guide
Why PaymentHood

Rather than a direct Ozow 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 notification, validated before the order is released
Payment verification
Server-side status re-check against Ozow before fulfilment
Credentials
API key and site code, signed per request; credentials stay server-side in PaymentHood
  • Add a second provider without touching your WooCommerce checkout
  • Automatic failover when Ozow 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
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

With pay-by-bank the customer authorises a transfer straight from their bank account inside their own banking session — no card number is entered anywhere. For the merchant that means no card data to protect and no card chargeback route. The trade-off is that refunds are handled as outbound transfers rather than card reversals.

Ozow covers the major South African retail banks, including FNB, Absa, Standard Bank, Nedbank, RMB, Capitec, TymeBank, Investec, Discovery Bank and African Bank. Check ozow.com for the current list before you rely on a specific bank.

As well. Pay-by-bank and cards suit different customers, and offering both measurably reduces abandoned checkouts. Running both behind PaymentHood means one integration rather than two, and you can add or remove either without a code change.

PaymentHood's routing can fail a transaction over to another configured South African provider instead of showing the customer an error. That failover is configured in the dashboard — your storefront code is unchanged.

No. Ozow bills you directly for its own transaction fees. PaymentHood takes no percentage and no per-transaction cut — see PaymentHood pricing.
Related

Keep reading

Ozow overview

Coverage, currencies, payment methods and how PaymentHood secures the Ozow integration.

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PaymentHood for WooCommerce

The plugin itself: features, billing models and every provider it can reach.

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All payment providers

Every provider PaymentHood connects to, filterable by global, regional and crypto.

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Accept Ozow on WooCommerce today

Free plugin, no PaymentHood transaction fee, and room to add another provider whenever you need one.

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