‘Prove you’re human’ is the wrong security question in agentic commerce
Bots are no longer the enemy, and the inversion dilemma is real, explains Judy Winn, CISO at Peach Payments. For 20 years, payment security treated bots as the enemy. Agentic commerce just flipped that assumption upside down. Over the last year, agentic commerce has...
Payments are costing online businesses more than they think
As Africa’s digital payments market grows, ecommerce businesses need to treat checkout as part of the customer experience, not just the final step in a sale Jonatan Allbäck, CEO and co-founder of NjiaPay Nobody builds an online store hoping customers will give up at...
SA set to experience first Amazon Prime Day
Prime Day, Amazon’s flagship annual global shopping event exclusive to Prime members, is taking place for the first time in South Africa from 23 to 29 June. Anyone can sign up to Amazon Prime for a 30-day free trial or join Prime billed monthly at R59/month or...
SA businesses must become ‘unmissable’ to AI
It has happened before. Physical commerce brought products closer to consumers through stores, malls and distribution networks, making access easier and more immediate. By Adheesh Ori, customer and growth lead for consumer goods and services: retail and automotive at...
Uhuru Marketplace opens in SA
Uhuru Marketplace is a peer-to-peer AI-powered marketplace designed to reduce the barrier to entry for South Africans selling second-hand tools and services to the local market. The platform provides a professional, easily personalised, AI-embedded marketplace to...
Online retailers confuse compliance with cybersecurity
For e-commerce enterprises in a booming, R130-billion and counting industry, it is tempting to view payments compliance as the finish line, a signal that a business is secure. But in practice, compliance is just the starting point. There are many who don’t realise...
Shop2Shop and SallyPOS close the payment gap
Shop2Shop and SallyPOS have announced a formal strategic partnership that integrates two previously separate layers of the merchant experience – card payments and point of sale (POS) – into a unified ecosystem. The collaboration places the SallyPOS platform directly...
Multiple payment options improve online travel sales
Adding diverse payment options directly increases checkout conversions and increased basket size. This is one of the findings of The future of travel in South Africa: How travellers discover, book and pay, commissioned by Peach Payments and PayJustNow. Conducted by...
Infobip completes RCS implementation for Bob Group
Infobip has completed what it believes to be South Africa’s first live Rich Communication Services (RCS) implementation, for Bob Group’s Ship Logic platform. The partnership aims to allow for richer, more secure, and cost-efficient interactions between merchants,...
Lula, Payfast by Network embed growth funding for e-commerce merchants
Business funding platform Lula has entered into a strategic collaboration with Payfast by Network, enabling Payfast merchants to access fast, flexible funding directly within their payments environment. The collaboration brings Lula’s embedded funding solutions to...
Customers win as e-commerce drives supply chain digitisation
The stellar growth of e-commerce in recent years has revolutionised global trade flows, driving fundamental shifts in supply chains, consumer behaviour, and business models. By Gys Wilson, head of product: guarantees and trade at FNB South Africa This evolution offers...
Overhauled Pick n Pay app drives 40% year-on-year growth
Pick n Pay's reimagined asap! delivery app is driving on-demand grocery retail turnover growth of 40% year-on-year in the first half of FY26, following a complete technology transformation in April. The next-generation app has driven a 131% growth in first-time buyers...