Accept SnapScan
without building the integration
SnapScan is a South African QR-code payment app. At checkout the customer scans a QR code with the SnapScan app and approves the payment with a PIN or biometric — no card details are entered on the merchant's site. Launched in 2013, it was one of the first mobile payment apps in South Africa and is accepted by tens of thousands of merchants.
- ZAR
- Region
- South Africa
- Methods
- 2
- Credentials
- Server-side only
- PaymentHood fee
- None
- Status
- Live
What is SnapScan?
- Coverage
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- South Africa
Among the markets SnapScan serves — their own list is authoritative (opens in new tab).
- Currencies
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- ZAR
Among those supported. Which ones your account can charge in depends on its registered country.
- Fees
- Set and billed by SnapScan, who publish current rates on their own site (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 SnapScan'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, SnapScan's own documentation (opens in new tab) is the authority.
SnapScan payment methods
Every method below runs through the same PaymentHood checkout. Turning one on or off is a dashboard setting, not a code change.
QR code
Customer scans at checkout and approves in the SnapScan app
Payment links
A shareable link for invoices, email and social selling
SnapScan fees and pricing
Two separate bills, and only one of them exists.
- What PaymentHood charges
- Nothing on your SnapScan 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 SnapScan charges
- SnapScan sets its own rates and bills you directly. PaymentHood never sits between you and that invoice, so switching to or from SnapScan changes what you pay SnapScan and nothing else.
- What moves the rate
- Payment providers price per market and per method rather than as a single global figure. It also accepts 2 different payment methods, and card, transfer and wallet rails each carry their own cost.
- Where to check the figure
- SnapScan publishes current rates on their own site (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 SnapScan
A direct SnapScan integration is not just an API call. These are the parts every team ends up rebuilding — and the parts PaymentHood ships already done.
- Credentials
- Merchant API key, held server-side in PaymentHood
- Webhook security
- Signed payment notification, validated before the order is released
- Payment verification
- Server-side payment status re-check against the SnapScan merchant API before fulfilment
- Idempotent charge creation, so a retried request never double-charges a customer
- Automatic failover to another configured provider when SnapScan is unreachable
- One reconciliation view across SnapScan 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
SnapScan integrations by platform
Install the free PaymentHood plugin for your store, then enable SnapScan in your dashboard.
How to connect SnapScan
Open your SnapScan account
Register directly with SnapScan and complete their onboarding. Funds settle from SnapScan into your own bank account — PaymentHood never holds merchant money.
Add the credentials to PaymentHood
Paste your SnapScan 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 SnapScan appears as a payment option. Test in sandbox, then switch to live.