Payfast endpoint returns 403 or 400 at checkout
Payfast checkout returns 403 or 400 errors when the site redirects customers to the payment endpoint.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 8 May 2025 · last reported 7 October 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners report that after clicking Place Order, customers hit a 403 Forbidden or 400 Bad Request page on Payfast instead of the payment form.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.