Accept DPO Pay
without building the integration
DPO Pay is a pan-African payment gateway operating in more than 20 African countries. It accepts card and mobile money payments in a wide range of local currencies, which makes it the practical option for merchants selling across several African markets from one storefront rather than standing up a separate gateway per country.
- KES
- TZS
- UGX
- RWF
- ZMW
- BWP
- ETB
- ZAR
- NGN
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- Region
- Pan-Africa
- Methods
- 2
- Credentials
- Server-side only
- PaymentHood fee
- None
- Status
- Live
What is DPO Pay?
- Coverage
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- Kenya
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Rwanda
- Ethiopia
- Zambia
- Malawi
- Zimbabwe
- Botswana
- Namibia
- Mozambique
- Mauritius
- South Africa
- Nigeria
- Ghana
- Côte d'Ivoire
Among the markets DPO Pay serves — their own list is authoritative (opens in new tab).
- Currencies
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- KES
- TZS
- UGX
- RWF
- ZMW
- BWP
- ETB
- ZAR
- NGN
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
Among those supported. Which ones your account can charge in depends on its registered country.
- Fees
- Set and billed by DPO Pay, and published on their pricing page (opens in new tab). PaymentHood adds nothing on top, at any volume.
- Official resources
- Website (opens in new tab) · Developer docs (opens in new tab)
Written against DPO Pay's own documentation on . This page deliberately states no fees, no counts and no completeness claims, because those change without notice — for anything you are about to build on, DPO Pay's own documentation (opens in new tab) is the authority.
DPO Pay payment methods
Every method below runs through the same PaymentHood checkout. Turning one on or off is a dashboard setting, not a code change.
Cards
Visa and Mastercard credit and debit cards
Mobile money
The regional wallets in each market DPO covers
DPO Pay fees and pricing
Two separate bills, and only one of them exists.
- What PaymentHood charges
- Nothing on your DPO Pay transactions. No percentage and no per-transaction cut, at any volume. Every payment feature is free, and the optional Premium plan only adds white-label checkout branding.
- What DPO Pay charges
- DPO Pay sets its own rates and bills you directly. PaymentHood never sits between you and that invoice, so switching to or from DPO Pay changes what you pay DPO Pay and nothing else.
- What moves the rate
- Payment providers price per market and per method rather than as a single global figure. DPO Pay operates across 16 countries, so the country the payment is taken in matters. It settles in KES, TZS, UGX, RWF, ZMW, BWP, ETB, ZAR, NGN, USD, EUR, GBP, and cross-currency transactions are not priced the same as domestic ones. It also accepts 2 different payment methods, and card, transfer and wallet rails each carry their own cost.
- Where to check the figure
- DPO Pay publishes current rates on their pricing page (opens in new tab). That is the authority, not this page. We deliberately quote no numbers here, because a rate that has quietly changed is worse than no rate at all.
How PaymentHood works with DPO Pay
A direct DPO Pay integration is not just an API call. These are the parts every team ends up rebuilding — and the parts PaymentHood ships already done.
- Credentials
- Company token and service credentials, held server-side in PaymentHood
- Webhook security
- Callback validated and reconciled against the transaction record before the order is released
- Payment verification
- Server-side transaction verification against DPO before fulfilment
- Idempotent charge creation, so a retried request never double-charges a customer
- Automatic failover to another configured provider when DPO Pay is unreachable
- One reconciliation view across DPO Pay and every other provider you run
- Provider credentials never reach the storefront or the customer's browser
- Adding or switching a provider later is a dashboard change, not a re-integration
DPO Pay integrations by platform
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for your store, then enable DPO Pay in your dashboard.
How to connect DPO Pay
Open your DPO Pay account
Register directly with DPO Pay and complete their onboarding. Funds settle from DPO Pay into your own bank account — PaymentHood never holds merchant money.
Add the credentials to PaymentHood
Paste your DPO Pay API credentials into the PaymentHood dashboard. They are stored server-side and never exposed to your storefront.
Enable it at checkout
Install the PaymentHood plugin for your platform, paste your PaymentHood API key, and DPO Pay appears as a payment option. Test in sandbox, then switch to live.