Facilities intelligence helps build connected checkouts, smarter buildings, always-on POS
For most operations leaders, a point-of-sale system is where a transaction ends. A customer taps a card, a receipt prints, the sale closes. Facilities management sits somewhere else entirely, in a different department, often a different budget line, dealing with a...
The most expensive metre in retail is the one that leads to the till
There are three questions that preoccupy South Africa’s retailers in 2026. How do you get customers through the door, how do you keep them there, and how do you persuade them to spend? By Dieter Oelofse, POS systems architect at Ecentric Payment Systems, and Shaun...
Stress-test now for Black Friday
I find myself having the same conversations with business owners in late November - always too late to make a difference – writes Sahil Affriya, founder and CEO of Shiprazor. They typically have three strong trading days as customers work through their wishlists. Then...
Shop2Shop and Pay@ enable bill payments
Shop2Shop and Pay@ have launched a partnership that lets informal retailers facilitate everyday bill payments directly on their existing Shop2Shop card machines. The solution sits inside the Shop2Shop vending application and offers traders access to Pay@’s network of...
Yoco and stub bring payments and accounting together
payments and commerce platform Yoco has enabled direct integration with homegrown online accounting platform stub. The integration connects Yoco’s system’s sales data with stub’s accounting platform to automate reconciliations, giving independent businesses an...
PayJustNow debuts on Peach Payments’ POS device
PayJustNow is available on the Peach Payments Digit Pro POS device. Anine de Kock, head of partnerships at Peach Payments, says: “The solution announced today offers easy PayJustNow integration into existing Peach Payments POS terminals for merchants.” This is...
Ecentric debuts own integrated payment offering
Ecentric has launched of POSPay, a semi-white-label payment enablement solution that allows South Africa’s till vendors to offer payment services under their own brand. Through POSPay, till vendors integrate once into Ecentric’s certified acquiring and processing...
Ozow expands payment ecosystem
Ozow has announced a new partnership with Happy Pay that will enable its merchants to offer buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) at checkout, without requiring any additional integration. South Africa’s BNPL market was projected to grow to over $815-milliomn (approximately...
How can the payment ecosystem rebuild its relationship architecture?
The South African Reserve Bank's Payments Ecosystem Modernisation Programme (PEM) is reconfiguring the country's entire clearing and settlement architecture, with new payment institution licences expected in early 2026. The goal is to deliver fast, simple, inclusive...
Retail’s future is digital – but still physical
For years, retail strategy debates have asked whether online commerce will replace physical stores. Minesh Manga, executive: enterprise and retail at NEC XON, who has spent two decades working at the intersection of retail and technology, says that debate is...
How smartphones are remaking retail
Online commerce is no longer new to the South African market, with research from World Wide Worx indicating that e-commerce surpassed R130-billion in 2025 and captured close to 10% of total retail sales. Smartphone users are driving a significant portion of that...
Smollan Technologies brings together seven specialist companies
Smollan has announced the launch of Smollan Technologies — a unified data and technology entity formed by bringing together seven specialist technology companies under a single brand and operating model. Smollan Technologies has united Argility, DataOrbis, Cquential,...