🇿🇦 English, 30 October 2026, payment systems
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Retailers in South Africa must ensure their payment systems can handle the increased demand and variety of payment methods.
Over the past 12 years, payment methods have evolved to include virtual cards, QR codes, digital wallets, and mobile banking applications.
PayShap, Google Pay, Apple Pay, buy-now-pay-later (BNPL), and bank-app checkout payments, like Capitec Pay, have become popular.
Retailers are expected to support a growing range of payment options, with 54.7% of surveyed online retailers offering BNPL, up from 15.9%.