Zapper Partners With Stitch To Offer Fast, Secure One-click Payments
Zapper Partners With Stitch To Offer Fast, Secure One-click Payments. Mobile payments and rewards platform Zapper is on a mission to empower customers with the most convenient and efficient ways to pay, as well as enabling merchants to grow their businesses and improve conversions. Since launching in 2014, Zapper has become an establishment in the South African payments space, trusted by more than 1 million customers.
Zapper has partnered with Stitch to offer consumers the ability to make one-click payments via Instant EFT, by linking their bank accounts to the Zapper app. Whether clients are buying a coffee at a café, paying the bill at a restaurant or paying their parking ticket at the mall, Zapper’s solutions all work towards removing the friction typically associated with payments, making it as convenient as possible for consumers and merchants alike.
Zapper CEO Brett White understands that South African consumers value convenience. On driving consumer adoption, White said, “Consumers will utilise a payment option if it’s easy for them. If there’s availability to use the tender type they enjoy paying with, and there’s utility, benefit and ease behind it, that drives consumer adoption.” Looking to the future, White believes more improvements in choice and optionality are on the horizon for South Africa’s payments space. “I foresee a shift of dominance from card rails to alternative rails [including a] global movement toward payment rails that will result in convenience to both consumers and merchants in terms of speed and security. Instant EFT is certainly one of those opportunities.”
Stitch CEO Kiaan Pillay shares these sentiments, commenting that, “The future of digital payments in South Africa has a lot more flexibility. Users will be able to choose how to pay – whether through card, their bank or crypto. Platforms like Zapper enable choice for users and ultimately abstract a lot of the complexity behind it.”
By partnering with Stitch, Zapper is able to capitalise on these opportunities by continuing to remove friction from the payments journey and giving consumers the power of choice. “Part of taking friction out of the payment journey for consumers involves providing them with options that suit them best. We want to give them choice and optionality to make payments that are quick and convenient.” Pillay continued.
