Built on our licensed partner's payment rails

South Africa's payment rails, matched to your business.

We put South African businesses onto licensed payment rails, and we stay on the line afterwards. Your money moves on infrastructure that has run for years, not on a young company's balance sheet.

More ways to be paid, one partnerCardQR paymentInstant EFTBank EFTPayShapOzowVirtual cardCardQR paymentInstant EFTBank EFTPayShapOzowVirtual card

QR payment includes Scan to Pay. Rails are enabled per business at onboarding, based on what you sell and how you trade.

Find your fit

If you're a business in South Africa that gets paid by customers, you belong here.

There are two ways this usually works. Neither is a choice you have to make now, and the enquiry form asks the four questions that tell us which one fits.

There are two ways this usually works
For most businesses

Fully managed

We bring you onto the licensed rails, set your payment flow up, and run it with you, so you accept payments without becoming a payments company.

Rate
One blended rate, quoted per deal rather than published as a percentage
Onboarding
We handle the onboarding with the licensed partner and tell you where it stands
Bank relationship
You trade under our licensed partner's facility, and we are the only party you deal with
Compliance & risk
Onboarding prepared and submitted by us. Support runs through us. Your own compliance stays yours
At serious scale

Already processing at serious scale?

The second way is running your own rails: you keep your bank and merchant ID and connect directly to the licensed switching and processing infrastructure. We arrange the access and run the integration with you.

The same licensed rails underneath both. Settlement to your own bank.

How this starts

From first conversation to live payments, without building infrastructure from scratch.

01

Enquire

Tell us how you trade and what you want to build.

02

We scope your setup

We match your offering and map the integration with you.

03

We build and test

We build your setup and test it before anything goes live.

04

Go live

Take payments, with us in your corner as you grow.

We design how the money moves, and we carry you onto the rails.

Getting money moving is five pieces of work and the joins between them usually belong to nobody. We take all five as one engagement.

Where the payment needs something to live inside, we build that too.

We don't just connect you to the rails.

We design.

We build.

We integrate.

We support.

01

We design

How money moves through your business: who pays whom, on which rail, what happens when a payment fails, and how it reconciles at the end of the day.

e.g. a marketplace paying its sellers, a biller collecting monthly
02

We get you on

We collect what is needed, prepare and submit your application, and deal with the licensed partner on your behalf.

e.g. approved and live without building a compliance function
03

We run it with you

Support, monitoring and the changes as you grow, from a team that already knows your setup.

e.g. one number to call when a payment does not arrive

Every merchant we build makes the next one faster. That's the engine.

Talk to us about building it

The same rails, underneath both offerings

Every card payment runs the same loop, settling to your own bank on South African rails. The licensed infrastructure does the switching and processing. We are the one party you deal with.

CardholderCard SchemeVisa / MastercardDragonstoneYour payment layerLicensed acquiring partnerSwitching + processingYour customerRoutes the txnYou deal with usSettles to your bank

What we provide

The rails the banks run on, made simple to access and ready to build with.

More ways to be paid, one integration

Card, QR, instant EFT, bank EFT, PayShap and wallets through one partner instead of three separate contracts.

We handle the hard part

We collect what is needed, prepare your application and deal with the licensed partner on your behalf, so you ship without building a compliance team.

The waiting is the work

Approval is a queue you cannot see, run by people you cannot talk to. We collect the details and documents, prepare and submit your application, and stay your point of contact afterwards.

33bn+ USD
Processed on EFT Corp's platform in 2024
5+ rails
Card, QR, EFT, PayShap, wallets, vouchers
One blended rate, tailored to your volume and mix
Quoted per deal, never published as a percentage

Questions, answered

When do I get paid?

Settlement is handled on licensed bank rails. Exact timing is confirmed per deal, in your merchant agreement.

Who holds my money?

We never custody funds. Settlement runs on our licensed partner's rails, straight into your own account.

Do I need my own compliance?

Like any business, you remain responsible for your own compliance: operating lawfully, keeping your information accurate, meeting your own tax and data-protection obligations, and following any rules specific to your sector. What we take off your hands is the setup. We collect the details and documents needed to bring you onto the platform, prepare and submit your application, and act as your day-to-day point of contact for payments. So there is far less admin on your side, while responsibility for your own compliance stays with you.

What happens after I enquire?

A person reads it and decides whether we are the right fit. If we are, we scope your setup with you, build and test it, and then you go live on rails that already work.

Can I test before committing?

Yes. We build and test your setup, and you see it working before it takes any real money.

Let's talk about what you're building.

Tell us how your business moves money and what you want built. That is what we need to know whether we are the right fit.

A person reads every enquiry and decides whether we are the right fit. If we are, we will be in touch to start the conversation properly.

What are you after?
What kind of business?
What do you sell, and roughly how much moves through?
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