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Top 25 Embedded payments providers based in South Africa
RevenueBase identified 79 embedded payments providers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026 and tracks 3,054 professional contacts across them, including 1,538 with verified work emails. Cape Town is the largest hub.
This list covers embedded payments providers headquartered in South Africa, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest embedded payments providers based in South Africa
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 475 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “iKhokha is a co-founder led financial technology company that believes every South African entrepreneur should be given the opportunity to compete in the digital economy – because…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Payfast by Network, we’re always open - to business, to tech, to innovation and to you.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1998, Ecentric Payment Systems is the leading provider of retail processing solutions in South Africa and across Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As a global payments company, we have the technology, expertise and infrastructure to manage ATM networks, enable card acquiring, provide transaction processing solutions that…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Peach Payments enables Simple, Seamless and Secure transactions for business and consumers in Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are your partner in growth, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept a range of payment types with our omnichannel approach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We move the money that moves South Africa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hyphen Technology (Pty) Limited, a subsidiary of FirstRand Investment Holdings Limited, provides cutting-edge financial technology solutions for payment, receipting…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Stitch payments solutions help businesses seamlessly connect to the financial system, enabling them to deliver a better user experience and to optimize operations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 136 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Connect Group of companies provides retail merchants with fintech solutions that connect them to cash management, quick access to business funding, card payments and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2007 and head-quartered in Cape Town, Transaction Junction (TJ) is a leading FinTech company that provides a modern transaction platform to businesses across…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2001, Stanchion Payments has offices in Australia, South Africa, the UK, United Arab Emirates and the USA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sureswipe is one of South Africa’s first card Payment Service Providers (PSPs) established in 2008 to make card payment acceptance easy and accessible to all independent retailers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PayJustNow is an innovative payment platform, offering flexible retail payment options to consumers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Your payments partner for growth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At EasyPay we strive to provide innovative payment solutions for bill payments both online and in our retail space.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Providing payment solutions, hardware and payment platforms.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PAYM8 is transforming the payments landscape, providing businesses with a comprehensive suite of solutions that are simple, secure, and affordable.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Callpay is the world's first PCI-DSS v3 Level 1 compliant PSP and the first in Africa to achieve Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards v3.2 Level 1 compliance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dashpay, a subsidiary of JSE-listed Araxi Ltd, is dedicated to delivering innovative payment solutions that empower financial institutions and Fintech’s worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Paysoft is the smart, human-first payment platform built for South African businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adumo Online operates as a leading payment enabler, with all the services clients need to conduct secure, cashless payment transactions in both domestic and international markets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PAYMENT SOLUTIONS - SIMPLIFIED We help companies implement solutions that enable payments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Avansa, innovation meets transactional security and efficiency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Veneka: “to illuminate” Veneka enables Card, Mobile and e-Banking payment solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: embedded payments providers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names embedded payments providers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of embedded payments providers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name embedded payments providers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Embedded payments providers based in South Africa at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for South Africa, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for South Africa, over 79 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among embedded payments providers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in South Africa whose own description of what they do matches “embedded payments providers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names embedded payments providers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among embedded payments providers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside South Africa are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,538 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names embedded payments providers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many embedded payments providers are there based in South Africa?
RevenueBase identified 79 embedded payments providers headquartered in South Africa as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Ikhokha, headquartered in Umhlanga Ridge Durban, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most embedded payments providers?
Cape Town leads with 22 headquartered companies, followed by Johannesburg (15) and Sandton (10).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,538 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 79 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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