Pan-Africa

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
Pan-Africa
2 payment methods
0% PaymentHood fee
DPO Pay
Region
Pan-Africa
Methods
2
Credentials
Server-side only
PaymentHood fee
None
Status
Live
At a glance

DPO Pay in summary

Coverage
  • 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
  • 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.

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.

Payment methods

What your customers can pay with

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

Integration

What PaymentHood handles for you

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
Setup

Connecting DPO Pay takes three steps

1

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.

2

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.

3

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.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

More than 20, spanning East, West, Southern and North Africa — including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Mauritius, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Confirm your specific market with DPO before launch, as coverage changes.

DPO is the pragmatic choice when you sell into several African markets and want one contract instead of five. A single-country provider such as Paystack in Nigeria or Payfast in South Africa will usually offer deeper local payment-method coverage in its home market. Running both behind PaymentHood lets you use DPO for reach and a local provider where it wins — the routing decision is made in the dashboard, not in your code.

DPO supports a broad set of African and major international currencies, including KES, TZS, UGX, RWF, ZMW, BWP, ETB, ZAR, NGN, USD, EUR and GBP. Your available set depends on your account and market.

Yes. Mobile money is offered alongside cards in the markets where DPO operates, which matters in East Africa where wallet penetration is far higher than card penetration.

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

Start accepting DPO Pay payments

Free plugin, no PaymentHood transaction fee, and the option to add another provider later without touching your checkout.