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Learn how embedded finance and embedded payments has the potential to transform online retail, boost revenue and improve the customer experience.
October 18, 2024
May 7, 2024
Industry

How embedded finance and embedded payments solutions are transforming online retail

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
Industry

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
February 11, 2025
Company

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 5, 2025
February 6, 2025
Product

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
Industry

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
Industry

How unified commerce is shaping retail

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
February 5, 2025
January 27, 2025
Company

Stitch acquires ExiPay, expands offering with in-person payments

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 17, 2025
January 16, 2025
Industry

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
Industry

Why the education sector needs smart payment solutions

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
Stories

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

Tripco integrated Stitch Payouts to automate payments to their property owners and reduce admin burden. Now they can payout a full day sooner and divert resources to other value-adding services.
October 18, 2024
October 31, 2023
Stories

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
Stories

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
Stories

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
Stories

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
Stories

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
Stories

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
June 15, 2022
Stories

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

FlexClub uses Stitch Financial Data to power their vehicle recommendation engine, leading to a better onboarding process and increased conversion rates.
October 18, 2024
May 26, 2022
Stories

How Stitch Financial Data powers FlexClub’s smart vehicle recommendation engine

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
Company

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
February 11, 2025
Company

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
February 5, 2025
January 27, 2025
Company

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
Company

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
July 11, 2024
Company

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
June 20, 2024
Company

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
June 18, 2024
Company

Meet Stitch Finance Manager Sergio Marais

Stitch Solutions Architect Shaheel Kooverjee shares more about our hands-on approach to working with clients, how we build bespoke payments solutions, and more.
October 18, 2024
April 25, 2024
Company

Meet Stitch Solutions Architect Shaheel Kooverjee

Get to know Stitch Product Analytics and Data Lead Michael Wilson and what excites him about working in analytics in the payments space.
February 10, 2025
January 25, 2024
Company

Meet Stitch Product Analytics and Data Lead Michael Wilson

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
Industry

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
Industry

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
Industry

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 17, 2025
January 16, 2025
Industry

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
Industry

Why the education sector needs smart payment solutions

Built on direct integrations with multiple banks, rails and networks, Stitch offers more reliable card payments in South Africa through built-in redundancy, flexible 3DS and secure tokenisation
December 3, 2024
December 16, 2024
Industry

How Stitch makes card processing more reliable

Explore how digital wallet payments work and benefit merchants and consumers. Learn how Stitch simplifies integration for seamless, secure, one-click transactions.
December 13, 2024
December 10, 2024
Industry

Understanding digital wallet transactions

Discover how card payments work in South Africa's digital economy. Learn about the key players, friction points, and how Stitch simplifies one-click payments.
December 2, 2024
December 3, 2024
Industry

Understanding card payments in South Africa

Bankserv South Africa recently announced the coming launch of PayShap Request, the latest innovation in instant payments, set to enable interoperable instant payments across participating banks
November 27, 2024
November 27, 2024
Industry

How South Africa is gearing up for PayShap Request (RTP)

How can businesses ensure their mandates are signed, authorized and collected efficiently? TT3 could be an answer.
February 5, 2025
February 6, 2025
Product

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
Product

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
July 18, 2024
Product

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
July 9, 2024
Product

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.
October 18, 2024
July 2, 2024
Product

What is Absa Pay?

Send reliable payouts to any bank account in South Africa with Stitch. 24/7, 365. Now including RPP.
October 18, 2024
June 5, 2024
Product

Payouts refresh: moving money faster + better

Discover how payments orchestration and reconciliation solutions can help large enterprises manage complex payments stacks to streamline their finaance operations.
October 18, 2024
April 24, 2024
Product

How South African enterprises can tackle B2B payments complexity

Card payments are the most preferred payment method by online shoppers in South Africa. How do card payments work, and what goes on in the background when a consumer initiates a card transaction?
October 18, 2024
March 26, 2024
Product

Understanding payments in South Africa: How do card payments work?

South African SMEs and entrepreneurs can now easily and securely accept card payments via API using WigWag, powered by Stitch.
October 18, 2024
December 7, 2023
Product

WigWag launches API, making it easier for SMEs to accept card payments

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
Developers

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
July 6, 2023
Developers

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
Developers

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
Developers

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
June 28, 2022
Developers

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
May 12, 2022
Developers

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
March 9, 2022
Developers

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
Developers

Get up and running faster, with Stitch self-serve

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
Reports

Report: Consumer perspectives in South Africa – E-commerce

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
April 11, 2024
Reports

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
April 2, 2024
Reports

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
March 14, 2024
Reports

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
Reports

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
Reports

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.
October 18, 2024
January 18, 2024
Reports

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
June 12, 2023
Reports

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.
October 18, 2024
May 29, 2023
Reports

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
April 17, 2024
Reports

Report: Consumer preferences South Africa - Cash

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A year of growth: measuring impact

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Developers

Get up and running faster, with Stitch self-serve

South Africa-based Revio helps SaaS and subscription businesses across Africa better manage recurring payments and collections. Stitch and Revio have partnered to offer Revio customers a simple and secure way to enable payments via bank transfer,
October 18, 2024
January 31, 2022
Company

Stitch partners with Revio

It takes a community to enable a fintech to thrive. We took a look at what a typical “fintech stack” might look like for a wallet business launching in Africa
October 18, 2024
January 20, 2022
Industry

The anatomy of an African fintech’s tech stack

Like hotels, APIs need to protect themselves from unwanted visitors. Stitch CTO Natalie Cuthbert outlines security protocols used to protect sensitive user data
October 18, 2024
January 7, 2022
Company

How Stitch API security protocols are like a modern hotel

In South Africa, Stitch facilitates seamless bank to bank payments, including Instant EFTs. This allows for secure pay-ins, with lower fees vs other payment methods such as card.
October 18, 2024
December 15, 2021
Product

What is an Instant EFT?

Problem: Bitvice relied on manual documentation and KYC checks when onboarding new customers, which often took more than 15 minutes and led to high dropoff rates Solution:
October 18, 2024
December 13, 2021
Stories

With Stitch, Bitvice helps South Africans start investing in Bitcoin in under 2 minutes

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