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Stitch has partnered with Standard Bank’s Shyft to bring their customers a faster, more convenient way to buy, sell, send, invest and store forex.

How Shyft empowers global citizens with Stitch

Stitch has partnered with South African HR tech firm Jem to help their team enable responsible earned wage access for salaried frontline workers across South Africa, 24/7.

October 18, 2024

January 25, 2024

Enabling 24/7 earned wage access for South African employees with Jem

October 31, 2023

How Tripco reduced time-to-payment by a full day with Stitch automated payouts

Learn how Stitch InstantPay has enabled risk management service, Nutun, to improve its debt collections process through a seamless omni-channel with a host of digital payment options.

October 18, 2024

February 6, 2023

Nutun integrates Stitch to enable better, faster, more convenient collections

Travel website Busbud partners with Stitch for instant EFT payments and sees increase in reach and conversion.

October 18, 2024

January 12, 2023

Busbud partners with Stitch to expand reach in South African market

Bill and payments aggregator Pay@ recently switched to a white-labelled version of Stitch Instant Pay, empowering South African consumers with a quick, intuitive way to settle their bills in real-time.

October 18, 2024

October 26, 2022

How Stitch works with Pay@ to increase Instant EFT conversion for real-time bill settlements

Learn more about how we're enabling Peach Payments' online merchants across South Africa to accept secure, low-cost instant EFT payments.

October 18, 2024

October 24, 2022

Peach Payments partners with Stitch to launch Instant EFT checkouts for merchants across South Africa

Payments and rewards platform Zapper has partnered with Stitch to offer consumers the ability to make one-click payments, by linking their bank accounts to the Zapper app.

October 18, 2024

September 1, 2022

Zapper partners with Stitch to offer fast, secure one-click payments

Leading South African digital lender Wonga leverages Stitch Financial Data to dramatically reduce loan approval times and get customers access to funds faster.

October 18, 2024

How Wonga uses Stitch to help South Africans access loans in < 10 minutes

For our first multichannel ad campaign, we wanted to focus on our clients. Here's why and what that looks like.

Switch to Stitch: introducing our first multichannel brand campaign

Efficacy Payments has been acquired by the Stitch Group, enabling it to become one of the first fintech backed groups to offer direct card clearing services in South Africa

Efficacy Payments has been acquired by Stitch Group, enabling the Group to offer card acquiring services

The round was led by global investment firms QED Investors, Glynn Capital, Flourish Ventures and Norrsken22, with participation from existing funders Ribbit Capital, PayPal Ventures, The Raba Partnership and Firstminute Capital

Stitch announces $55 million series B funding round

Stitch co-founders Kiaan Pillay, Junaid Dadan and Priyen Pillay reflect on four years out of stealth at South Africa’s fastest-growing payments business.

February 27, 2025

February 27, 2025

Four years of growth at Stitch

First spun out in late 2023, WigWag is rebranding as Stitch Express, a refreshed solution designed to support businesses that leverage e-commerce platforms with simplified, high-converting digital payments

February 20, 2025

February 20, 2025

WigWag rebrands as Stitch Express to serve e-commerce businesses

Today, the ability to move money isn’t enough for enterprise businesses that want to scale faster. Sending easy, reliable and instant payouts can have a significant impact on business success, financial operations and customer satisfaction for businesses across industries.

February 11, 2025

How 24/7, 365 instant payouts are changing the game in online payments

Stitch has acquired in-person payments solution ExiPay and is now a unified commerce provider, offering enterprise merchants in South Africa access to online and in-person payments through one platform

January 27, 2025

Stitch acquires ExiPay, expands offering with in-person payments

Stitch has secured ISO 27001 certification for our information security management practices, ensuring clients and customer data and information remains safe.

October 21, 2024

October 21, 2024

Stitch secures ISO 27001 ISMS certification

Explore the evolving South African consumer landscape and join us at the Stitch Scale Summit to delve into consumer trends and innovative strategies reshaping businesses today.

October 18, 2024

The Year of the Consumer Part 2: A shift in mindset

Learn how Stitch one-click deposits are a game-changer for increasing conversion and transaction volumes at leading South African businesses like Hollywoodbets and Luno.

October 18, 2024

November 2, 2023

How Stitch one-click deposits help South African businesses boost transaction volumes

Consumers are increasingly expressing preference to make recurring payments via alternative methods. What’s driving this shift? And where does it leave the traditional debit order?

August 25, 2025

August 13, 2025

Are debit orders still in the game?

Our latest research report shows that more South Africans are increasingly willing to try new and alternative payment methods.We unpack the payment methods gaining traction and practical ways to avoid common pitfalls when expanding your payment methods.

South Africans have new payment preferences

The checkout experience is no longer just a technical necessity – it’s a strategic lever. Get the key takeaways from our recent webinar.

The future of checkout in South Africa: insights from the latest Stitch payments webinar

As adoption of Apple, Google and Samsung Pay rises, we take a step back to examine what's led us here, and how businesses can benefit.

Behind the rise of Apple, Google and Samsung Pay in South Africa

Payment facilitators (payfacs) help businesses accept online card payments quickly through a simplified onboarding process. However, this solution may not be right for every business.

September 22, 2025

How payfacs can simplify and accelerate online card payments

We caught up with our co-founders to discuss how AI is being leveraged to enable greater efficiency for the Stitch team and the fintech industry at large.

How AI is impacting the payments industry in South Africa

To protect their revenue and their customers, merchants must implement card authentication measures. Here's what that looks like.

Guide: How to optimise authentication for card payments

To remain competitive and outperform the competition, insurers need to look at addressing pain points in payments processing as a key place to start.

Why the insurance industry needs bulletproof payment solutions

It’s not enough to simply combat fraud: it has to be detected and prevented before it happens. Introducing Stitch Shield, our fraud detection and prevention engine.

Stitch Shield: Smart fraud detection for enterprise payments

South Africa’s e-commerce industry is expected to reach $74.79 billion by 2033, drivenby improving consumer confidence in online shopping. An essential part of earning consumer confidence is in strong card authentication, such as 3DS.

Dynamic 3DS: fraud protection that won’t cost you conversions

Tracking transactions from across methods and providers, across banks, and via multiple routes and rails makes reconciliation challenging. At Stitch, we work to consolidate all payment information to streamline reconciliation for clients. Here’s what that looks like.

How Stitch streamlines omnichannel reconciliation

Methods like debit order and DebiCheck offer convenient ways to collect recurring debits from customers. But what happens when these methods become targets of fraud?

How Stitch prevents fraud for DebiCheck and Debit Order

We offer multiple options for clients to integrate card payments on their platform, depending on their goals and particular use case. Here is a quick breakdown of card integration options clients can get with Stitch.

Guide: Integration options on Stitch card

The Shyft team has partnered with Stitch to offer instant top-ups on the Shyft wallet via card, providing customers from any bank with more immediate access to funds for global transactions.

Stitch partners with Standard Bank’s Shyft to enable instant wallet top-ups

How can businesses ensure their mandates are signed, authorized and collected efficiently? TT3 could be an answer.

February 6, 2025

Optimise collections with TT3 mandates

Stitch now offers Samsung Wallet alongside Apple Pay and Google Pay, enabling our clients to accept payments from customers in one click online using their Samsung smartphone wallet.

October 18, 2024

August 19, 2024

Samsung Wallet now available with Stitch

Discover what Apple Pay is, how it works and how you can offer it to your customers in South Africa with Stitch.

October 18, 2024

Apple Pay now available with Stitch

An internal hackathon led the Stitch engineering team to create a replica of our local environment using Github Codespaces, providing us with a more on-demand resource for testing before deploying code.

February 10, 2025

December 4, 2023

Implementing Codespaces for more thorough testing at Stitch

A technical overview of Stitch API-powered payouts, enabling seamless withdrawals and refunds at Stitch.

October 18, 2024

Technical deep dive: Payouts at Stitch

Learn more about the various changes we've made to our developer docs in order to make it even easier and more intuitive for you to integrate the Stitch API.

October 18, 2024

December 6, 2022

Inside the new and improved Stitch developer docs

Senior Full Stack Developer Jethro Muller describes the importance of code quality and how Stitch has improved the review process using automated checks with GitHub.

October 18, 2024

August 24, 2022

How Stitch automates code quality checks using GitHub Actions

Stitch support specialist Tobi Fasipe and Head of Customer Solutions Priyen Pillay tell us why Stitch recommends developers subscribe to webhooks to stay up to date on API requests

October 18, 2024

What are webhooks and how do they work?

The Stitch tech stack: learn about the foundational tech tools we leverage at Stitch to build the most robust, responsive and scalable API platform for our clients

October 18, 2024

Introducing the Stitch Tech Stack

With this article, we aim to provide useful code examples as well as to demystify GraphQL, and to give you the tools you need to succeed with your Stitch GraphQL integration

October 18, 2024

How to integrate with Stitch using GraphQL

Businesses interested in getting started with Stitch can now do so through our new self-serve sign-up - and access test credentials instantly

October 18, 2024

February 9, 2022

Get up and running faster, with Stitch self-serve

Get the latest insights into how South Africans are thinking about payments, checkout and commerce today.

2025 Report: The state of consumer payments in South Africa

Why do many South Africans still prefer cash for a large portion of their transactions? How do they use it and what would lead them to switch to digital payments? Read our full consumer report for more.

October 18, 2024

Report: Consumer preferences South Africa - Cash

Explore how South African consumers are thinking about the digital payments and online purchase experience across the e-commerce, travel, insurance and gaming industries.

October 18, 2024

Consumer perspectives in South Africa: industry deep dives

Understand how South Africans think about the online gaming and sports betting industry with survey data from 350+ South Africans.

October 18, 2024

Report: Consumer preferences South Africa - Online gaming

We surveyed over 300 South Africans to better understand their attitudes and perceptions around the insurance industry, their reasons for choosing one provider over another and how they think about premium payments and claims payouts.

October 18, 2024

Report: Consumer perspectives in South Africa – Insurance

What makes South Africans choose one travel booking platform over another? How do they prefer to pay? Explore our travel consumer report for more.

October 18, 2024

February 27, 2024

Report: Consumer perspectives South Africa – Travel

Unlock insights into South African e-commerce trends and learn more about consumer habits, preferences and perspectives shaping the scaling industry.

October 18, 2024

February 12, 2024

Report: Consumer perspectives in South Africa – E-commerce

Understand the state of the payments landscape in South Africa, including key terms, with a downloadable guide.

January 18, 2024

Guide: Payments in South Africa - a look at the landscape

Learn 4 ways wallet-based businesses and platforms can increase transaction amounts and improve conversion with a seamless payments experience.

October 18, 2024

4 ways digital wallet businesses can increase retention

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