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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

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 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

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

Read our ultimate guide to DebiCheck. In it, you’ll learn what DebiCheck is, how it differs from alternatives, and how it helps to protect your account from fraud.

Debicheck: The ultimate guide

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

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

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

Announcing the third annual Stitch Scale Summit, exploring the theme: The Year of the Consumer where we'll dive deeper into evolving consumer trends and behaviours in South Africa.

October 18, 2024

Introducing The Year of the Consumer: Stitch Scale Summit 2024

Get to know Stitch Finance Manager Sergio Marais, more about his role at Stitch and his vision for the future if we achieve our mission of building a financial system that works for all.

October 18, 2024

Meet Stitch Finance Manager Sergio Marais

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

Read our ultimate guide to DebiCheck. In it, you’ll learn what DebiCheck is, how it differs from alternatives, and how it helps to protect your account from fraud.

Debicheck: The ultimate guide

By enabling consumers to browse, ask questions, and even complete purchases through familiar platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and voice assistants, conversational commerce makes online retail more accessible.

February 25, 2025

Conversational commerce in South Africa: in-chat payments on the rise

This year, retail businesses can expect new developments in personalisation, instant payments and social commerce to shape the future of retail transactions.

February 20, 2025

February 19, 2025

What's ahead for retail payments in South Africa in 2025?

Businesses relying on RMS to improve collections will be impacted by the upcoming mandated shift from RMS to RM as a fallback measure. Here's how they can prepare.

February 5, 2025

February 5, 2025

What is RM vs RMS, and how can businesses prepare?

While e-commerce continues to grow in South Africa, brick and mortar stores aren’t going anywhere soon. Online spending represents 6% of all shopping in South Africa, and is predicted to grow.

February 5, 2025

January 30, 2025

How unified commerce is shaping retail

2024 saw significant growth and change across South Africa’s payments ecosystem, from the launch of new Bank APIs, to the recent introduction of PayShap Request. We're looking ahead at what changes are coming in 2025 and how enterprise businesses can prepare.

January 16, 2025

How we see South Africa’s payments ecosystem changing in 2025

Institutions, schools and financing partners need smart payments solutions like seamless collections and automated payouts to enable uninterrupted access to learning, to streamline operations and to provide high-quality, reliable services.

January 8, 2025

December 19, 2024

Why the education sector needs smart payment solutions

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

Discover the benefits of smartphone or digital wallets in South Africa and how they benefit both consumers and merchants.

October 18, 2024

Demand for smartphone or digital wallets rises in South Africa

Stitch has partnered with Absa to offer Absa Pay to our merchants as part of our Pay by bank offering, alongside all other bank APIs: Capitec Pay and Nedbank Direct EFT.

What is Absa Pay?

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

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

In our latest guide, we’ve outlined four ways subscription-based businesses can optimise collections and subscription payments.

How to improve subscription payments + make collections a non-event

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

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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

By enabling consumers to browse, ask questions, and even complete purchases through familiar platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and voice assistants, conversational commerce makes online retail more accessible.

February 25, 2025

Conversational commerce in South Africa: in-chat payments on the rise

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

This year, retail businesses can expect new developments in personalisation, instant payments and social commerce to shape the future of retail transactions.

February 20, 2025

February 19, 2025

What's ahead for retail payments in South Africa in 2025?

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

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

Businesses relying on RMS to improve collections will be impacted by the upcoming mandated shift from RMS to RM as a fallback measure. Here's how they can prepare.

February 5, 2025

February 5, 2025

What is RM vs RMS, and how can businesses prepare?

While e-commerce continues to grow in South Africa, brick and mortar stores aren’t going anywhere soon. Online spending represents 6% of all shopping in South Africa, and is predicted to grow.

February 5, 2025

January 30, 2025

How unified commerce is shaping retail