What Is SofizPay?
SofizPay is Algeria's leading payment gateway, providing secure and easy digital payment solutions built specifically for the Algerian market. It allows merchants to accept payments directly from their customers' CIB and Dahabia cards in Algerian Dinar (DZD), with instant confirmation and a streamlined hosted checkout experience.
Key Features
- Built for Algeria: SofizPay is designed from the ground up for the Algerian market, with native support for CIB and Dahabia — the card networks most Algerian customers already have in their wallet.
- DZD-Native Settlement: Transactions are priced, authorised, and settled in Algerian Dinar, so there's no currency conversion friction for the merchant or the customer.
- Hosted Checkout: Customers are redirected to SofizPay's secure hosted payment page, which means the store never sees card details and PCI scope stays with SofizPay.
- Signed Callbacks: Every return callback is signed with RSA-SHA256. Trinavo verifies the signature before confirming any order, protecting merchants from spoofed payment notifications.
- Sandbox Environment: A dedicated sandbox lets merchants run full end-to-end payment tests against a separate environment before going live, with no risk of real money movement.
- Mobile-Friendly: The hosted checkout is optimised for the mobile browsers that make up the majority of Algerian e-commerce traffic.
Supported Region and Currency
SofizPay operates exclusively in Algeria and supports the Algerian Dinar (DZD). It is integrated with the major Algerian banking and telecommunications providers, making it the natural choice for stores selling to Algerian customers.
Integration with Trinavo
Trinavo provides a seamless integration with SofizPay, allowing Algerian merchants to start accepting online payments within minutes. Once you register a merchant account at merchant.sofizpay.com and paste your account public key into the Trinavo dashboard, SofizPay becomes available as a checkout option in your store.
At checkout, customers are redirected to SofizPay's hosted payment page to complete the transaction with their CIB or Dahabia card. After payment, they are returned to your store with a signed confirmation, and Trinavo automatically verifies the payment status before marking the order as paid.
Security and Compliance
SofizPay's hosted checkout keeps sensitive card data off your servers entirely. All return callbacks are signed with a 2048-bit RSA key and verified server-side by Trinavo using OpenSSL before any order is confirmed. This combination of hosted checkout and signature-verified callbacks provides defence in depth against both carding attacks and callback spoofing.
Getting Started
To enable SofizPay in your Trinavo store, create a merchant account at merchant.sofizpay.com, retrieve your account public key, then navigate to the payment settings in your Trinavo dashboard, select SofizPay, and paste in your credentials. Start in Test Mode to run a full sandbox transaction, then flip the toggle to go live once you're ready.
