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Discover what unified commerce is and how it helps retailers deliver seamless, personalised customer experiences across online and in-store channels with ease.
November 21, 2024
November 21, 2024
Industry

What is unified commerce?

Discover how a flexible float facility ensures instant, reliable payouts, helping businesses meet high-volume payment demands without delays or cash flow issues.
November 19, 2024
November 14, 2024
Industry

Guarantee reliable payouts with a flexible float facility

Boost collection success rates with Stitch's flexible, reliable payment solutions for recurring payments across industries. Increase retention and reduce payment failures.
November 8, 2024
November 8, 2024
Industry

Improve success rates with smarter collections

Unlock the power of DebiCheck for your subscription services. Learn how this secure debit collection system enhances recurring payments and boosts revenue.
October 30, 2024
October 30, 2024
Industry

What is DebiCheck? How to improve recurring collections

For enterprise businesses, redundancies are critical for reliable card payments. Stitch has built in strategic redundancies across the card processing stack, taking a multi-acquirer, multi-processor approach to ensure seamless transactions for our clients.
October 29, 2024
October 29, 2024
Industry

Why redundancies are critical for reliable card payments

Pig butchering and related scams are on the rise in South Africa. The Stitch fraud team shares advice on how businesses can keep themselves and their customers safe.
October 25, 2024
October 24, 2024
Industry

What is pig butchering fraud?

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

Enterprise businesses operating at scale can benefit significantly by taking the time to automate and streamline payment operations. See how the Stitch API and payment gateway can help.
October 18, 2024
October 9, 2024
Industry

Payments optimisation: How to improve your payments processes

Discover how evolving consumer behaviours in South Africa are influencing the e-commerce, travel and insurance industries, among others.
October 18, 2024
October 1, 2024
Industry

The Year of the Consumer Part 3: Impact by industry

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

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.
October 18, 2024
January 25, 2024
Company

Meet Stitch Product Analytics and Data Lead Michael Wilson

Stitch Head of People shares our approach to hybrid work, with tangible strategies and initiatives designed to promote collaboration and a sense of belonging at Stitch.
October 18, 2024
December 19, 2023
Company

Cultivating a thriving hybrid work culture

October 18, 2024
November 29, 2023
Company

Meet Stitch Regulatory and Compliance Lead Kathryn Santana

Gain insight into our approach to product partnerships and what excites Stitch Strategic and Product Partnerships Manager Josh Gordon most about products in the South African payments space.
October 18, 2024
October 26, 2023
Company

Meet Stitch Strategic and Product Partnerships Manager Josh Gordon

Discover how a flexible float facility ensures instant, reliable payouts, helping businesses meet high-volume payment demands without delays or cash flow issues.
November 19, 2024
November 14, 2024
Industry

Guarantee reliable payouts with a flexible float facility

Discover how a flexible float facility ensures instant, reliable payouts, helping businesses meet high-volume payment demands without delays or cash flow issues.
November 19, 2024
November 14, 2024
Industry

Guarantee reliable payouts with a flexible float facility

Boost collection success rates with Stitch's flexible, reliable payment solutions for recurring payments across industries. Increase retention and reduce payment failures.
November 8, 2024
November 8, 2024
Industry

Improve success rates with smarter collections

Unlock the power of DebiCheck for your subscription services. Learn how this secure debit collection system enhances recurring payments and boosts revenue.
October 30, 2024
October 30, 2024
Industry

What is DebiCheck? How to improve recurring collections

For enterprise businesses, redundancies are critical for reliable card payments. Stitch has built in strategic redundancies across the card processing stack, taking a multi-acquirer, multi-processor approach to ensure seamless transactions for our clients.
October 29, 2024
October 29, 2024
Industry

Why redundancies are critical for reliable card payments

Pig butchering and related scams are on the rise in South Africa. The Stitch fraud team shares advice on how businesses can keep themselves and their customers safe.
October 25, 2024
October 24, 2024
Industry

What is pig butchering fraud?

Enterprise businesses operating at scale can benefit significantly by taking the time to automate and streamline payment operations. See how the Stitch API and payment gateway can help.
October 18, 2024
October 9, 2024
Industry

Payments optimisation: How to improve your payments processes

Discover how evolving consumer behaviours in South Africa are influencing the e-commerce, travel and insurance industries, among others.
October 18, 2024
October 1, 2024
Industry

The Year of the Consumer Part 3: Impact by industry

Merchants in the logistics and last mile delivery space can stand out against heavy competition with a seamless, fast and reliable payments experience in South Africa.
October 18, 2024
September 12, 2024
Industry

Speeding up last-mile delivery with seamless payments

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

Introducing Stitch pay with crypto, the latest payment method enabling customers in South Africa to pay for goods and services using cryptocurrency.
October 18, 2024
November 21, 2023
Product

Announcing Pay with crypto: accept crypto payments, get settled in fiat

There are key factors enterprise businesses should consider when implementing and selecting a card payment flow from their payments processor.
October 18, 2024
August 29, 2023
Product

How to choose the right card payments flow for your business

Gain an overview of how card tokenization works, and how Stitch uses tokenisation to power recurring or repeat payments with enhanced convenience and security for merchants and their end users.
October 18, 2024
July 26, 2023
Product

Tokenization in online payments: Understanding card tokenization

Learn how your business can extend its reach to more South Africans and boost revenue with cash payments for digital products and services.
October 18, 2024
June 21, 2023
Product

Reach more South Africans with cash payments: Stitch Cash vs vouchers

Seamlessly accept online credit and debit card payments with Stitch. Find out how your business can boost conversion, streamline reconciliation, and reduce the risk of fraud.
October 18, 2024
May 16, 2023
Product

Seamlessly accept online card payments with Stitch

Stitch Debit Order and DebiCheck solutions enable businesses to optimise and streamline collections
October 18, 2024
April 19, 2023
Product

Streamline your collections process with Stitch Debit Orders and DebiCheck

Stitch is now a full, end-to-end Payments Services Provider offering Credit and Debit Card payments, and a payments reconciliation system.
October 18, 2024
March 27, 2023
Product

Stitch is now an end-to-end Payments Service Provider

Read more about how your business can reach more customers by accepting cash payments with Stitch CashPay
October 18, 2024
March 24, 2023
Product

How businesses in South Africa can expand their reach with Stitch CashPay

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.
October 18, 2024
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

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

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

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Merchants in the logistics and last mile delivery space can stand out against heavy competition with a seamless, fast and reliable payments experience in South Africa.
October 18, 2024
September 12, 2024
Industry

Speeding up last-mile delivery with seamless payments

The next evolution in South Africa’s bank to bank payments space is coming. Stitch President Junaid Dadan illustrates the evolution from Instant EFT to the new Pay by Bank standard, with enhanced convenience and security.
October 18, 2024
August 29, 2024
Industry

The next evolution in South Africa’s bank to bank payments space

Discover how to scale your South African forex platform by leveraging seamless pay-ins and withdrawals with Stitch.
October 18, 2024
August 22, 2024
Industry

Leveraging payments to optimise forex user experience

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 the role 3D Secure plays in card payments, how it benefits merchants and consumers, and the various configuration options Stitch offers.
October 18, 2024
August 1, 2024
Industry

What is 3D Secure authentication and how does it work?

A comprehensive guide to existing payment rails in South Africa, including how they work. Explore card rails, electronic funds transfer, manual EFT and more.
November 6, 2024
July 30, 2024
Industry

A guide to South African payment rails

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

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

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