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October 29, 2026Enterprise, News, Security

South Africa’s Online Retail Opportunity Hides in the Trust Gap

Payment gateways and partners in the ecommerce ecosystem need to assure consumers that shopping online is safe and secure.

October 29, 2026Business Tips, Developer stories, News

Why Good Marketing Ideas Get Stuck in the Development Queue

Disconnects between marketing and development teams can leave customer experience problems unresolved, even when both sides are trying to address the same problem.

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October 27, 2026Enterprise, Analytics

Without Payment Analytics, Payment Data Doesn’t Tell the Full Story of Business Performance

Businesses have access to more payments data than ever, but turning that information into meaningful insights remains a challenge. Understanding why payments fail, identifying sales trends, and uncovering opportunities to improve conversions requires more than numbers alone.

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September 2, 2026Business Tips, News

2026 Online Retail Report Just Launched. Here’s What You Need to Know

South African online retail just passed 10% of national retail spend, and the constraint has shifted from whether a payment gateway can complete a transaction to whether the customer chooses to.

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Meet Tegan: Turning Risk Into a Growth Enabler
How a proactive risk management philosophy and structured onboarding framework empower merchants to trade safely across Africa via their payment gateway.
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Empowering Change: Reshaping Payments
She spends her days solving problems behind the scenes of South Africa’s largest retailer – and this Women’s Month, Chanelle Badenhorst wants to talk about that, not the crown.
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Meet Akshay: Solving Complexity on the Front Line
Akshay Jugjeewon, our Pre-solution Architect, helps merchants solve this exact challenge. Akshay works on the front lines, helping enterprise merchants simplify their setup so they can focus on what they do best: growing their business.
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‘prove You’re Human’ Is the Wrong Security Question in Agentic Commerce
For 20 years, payment security treated bots as the enemy. Agentic commerce just flipped that assumption upside down.
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Solving Complexity: Part 2 – the Strategic Pivot
In Part 1, we covered how building a robust pan-African payments business is not for the faint hearted. Complexity comes with growth and businesses looking for a payment provider that alleviates the stress of scalign their business across products and regions don’t need to look much further. We’ve constantly solve for Africa’s biggest problems around fragmentation. Part 2 covers how we do this.
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Solving Complexity: Part 1 – the Irony of Progress
Building a robust pan-African payments platform is not for the faint hearted. For over a decade Peach Payments has identified, absorbed and solved the complexity for merchants as they scale.
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Retail & E-commerce Payments—the Conversion Engine
According to the latest findings of the 2025 Online Retail in South Africa report, the sector is set to surpass R130 Billion this year. This represents nearly 10% of total retail.
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Travel & Hospitality Payments – Fly Me to the Boom
The guest experience at any hotel begins long before check-in and extends well after checkout. Yet behind the scenes, hotel payment systems are fragmented, manual and vulnerable, which can undermine what guests encounter at a property. Here’s how to solve them.
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Five Payment Pain Points Hotels Face and How to Solve Them
The guest experience at any hotel begins long before check-in and extends well after checkout. Yet behind the scenes, hotel payment systems are fragmented, manual and vulnerable, which can undermine what guests encounter at a property. Here’s how to solve them.
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Giving Your Customers the Ultimate Checkout Shortcut With Embedded Express
Embedded Checkout merchants can add one-click Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay directly to product pages. Skip the cart, eliminate the typing, and watch your conversion rates climb.
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Payjustnow on Peach Payments’ Pos Device Improves In-store Payment Experience
PayJustNow is now available on the Peach Payments POS devices, giving merchants a smarter way to offer Buy Now, Pay Later and retail credit options at checkout.
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Peach Payments Brings Apple Pay to Merchants
Peach Payments brings Apple Pay to merchants in Mauritius. Discover how to offer your customers a safer, more secure way to pay using iPhone and Apple Watch.
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From Check-in to Check-out
Optimize your guest experience from check-in to check-out. Learn how seamless travel payment solutions, from BNPL to payment links, drive more bookings.
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How Multiple Payment Options Improve Online Travel Sales
Our new travel research in partnership with PayJustNow and Phocuswright, reveals how flexible payment options can double BNPL market share and boost online travel conversions.
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The New Standard for Payouts in South Africa
South African businesses track inbound payments obsessively; yet payouts often remain a blind spot. As volumes grow, incorrect or manipulated bank details quietly increase fraud and failure risk. Real-Time Clearance Payouts with Bank Verification validates beneficiary details before funds move, turning outbound payments into a controlled, measurable financial function.
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Peach Payments and Yoyo Add Bank Card-linked Loyalty to Digit Pro Pos Device 
No need to swipe loyalty cards or access separate screens to earn or burn rewards
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Black Friday Up 93% Over 2024, R1,86bn Processed
South Africa-based digital payments platform Peach Payments shares 2025 Black Friday, Cyber Monday weekend results.
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Bringing Our New Peach Values to Life
At Peach Payments, our new values were crafted by our people, for our people. Discover how a team-led redesign is shaping our culture, deepening collaboration, and powering our growth across Africa.
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Samsonite In-store Payment Methods
Choose your favourite way to pay! Samsonite offers MoneyBadger, Payflex, RCS and Mobicred.
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How Global and Regional Companies Can Use the Mauritius Ifc to Centralise Online Payments and Treasury Functions
Learn how the IFC is swiftly becoming a pivotal hub for global and regional companies seeking to optimise online payment acceptance and centralise treasury operations.
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# Peachfriday Merchant Deals 2025
Check out the amazing Black Friday sales that some of our favourite stores are running!
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A Merchant’s Guide to Chargebacks
Payments 101: Chargebacks won’t disappear. Here is a guide on how to manage them. Chargebacks aren’t simply refunds wrapped in admin. They’re a formal, bank-led reversal of a card payment after a customer disputes a transaction.
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Four Black Friday Payment Realities for Merchants
Discover the four Black Friday payment realities Enterprise merchants need to consider to build trust with customers and grow revenue with help from a world-class payment gateway.
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What Are Direct Merchant Accounts (iso) Versus Aggregation Accounts?
What payments processing model should you consider, thinking of diving into the world of online payments? It’s more than just accepting a transaction payment.
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What Is 3RI? Everthing You Need to Know About Requestor-initiated Authentication
Payments 101: Why 3RI is set to change recurring transactions, subscription renewal, installment payment, or delayed shipping charges.
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Highlights from the 2025 World Wide Worx Online Retail Report
The 2025 World Wide Worx report, sponsored by Peach Payments, Mastercard and AskAfrika, reveals that convenience is now the benchmark, trust is the currency and payments are the bridge.
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What Is Interchange? Everything You Need to Know About Interchange Fees
Payments 101 : A clear guide for SA merchants on fee flows. Interchange fees can feel like a complex part of the payments world, but they’re a big deal for any business that accepts card payments.
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Cadana Pay X Peach Payments: Unlocking Seamless Global Payouts
The API integration process was one of the smoothest they had experienced, completed by an engineer in just two to three days. With 50-55% cost savings, Cadana Pay significantly reduced costs by switching to Peach Payments.
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Peach Payments Announces Real-time Clearance Payouts
The new payouts solution lets merchants top up their float and make disbursements to merchants and recipients in just minutes, through either a single API or through the Peach Payments dashboard.
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Peach Payments X Moneybadger Partnership Goes Live
From light fittings and spades to groceries and tickets, Bitcoin-savvy consumers are keen to spend their crypto
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Peach Payments Launches Enterprise-level Pos Terminal
Delivers a single view of all transactions, with customisable checkout flow and easy integration into existing POS solutions.
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Itickets X Peach Payments Point of Sale
By partnering with Peach Payments, iTickets transformed its payment infrastructure into a strategic asset. Building unforgettable experiences at their events and a better experience for their valued customers.
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Peach Payments X Digicape: Powering Premium Apple Experiences With Seamless Payments
By partnering with Peach Payments, Digicape transformed its payment infrastructure into a strategic asset, driving significant growth, enhancing operational efficiency, and providing a better experience for their valued customers.
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Peach Payments Acquires West-african Payments Gateway Paydunya
Peach Payments expands into six West African countries representing an exciting chapter in their journey to build a truly pan-African payment ecosystem.
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The Battle for Card Security
How Your Payment Integration Defines Your PCI DSS Scope
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Navigating International Transactions
Understanding Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC) and Multi-Currency Pricing (MCP)
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Seize the Sale With Buy Now, Pay Later
Discover how South Africans are embracing BNPL, and merchants are reaping the rewards.
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2024 Wrapped: a Year of Innovation and Growth at Peach Payments
Peach Payments is paving the way for a transformative 2025. From Pay by Bank to Embedded Checkout, explore how we revolutionised payments in 2024
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Rcs Payment Option Now Available Through Peach Payments
RCS allows customers to make seamless online purchases with their card, enhancing the overall shopping experience
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Peach Payments Sees Impressive Growth This Black Friday Weekend
The Leisure & Entertainment industry grew its share of online sales over the four-day Black Friday weekend by 113% from last year
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#peachfriday Merchant Deals 2024
Check out the amazing Black Friday sales that some of our favourite stores are running!
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Your Ultimate Guide to Payment Security for Black Friday
What You Need to Know About PCI DSS 4.x
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Scaling With Peach Payments: Unveiling the Product Roadmap
Peach Payments’ latest innovations and future plans, emphasising customer-centric solutions and trailblazing advancements in the African payments industry.
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Scaling With Peach Payments: Revolutionising Reconciliation
Streamline your transaction reconciliation with Peach Payments’ new Recon API, designed for speed, accuracy, and scalability in high-volume operations.
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Scaling With Peach Payments: the Future of Payments
Learn how Peach Payments is leading the future of digital payments, by offering the top payment methods consumers are demanding today.
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Scaling With Peach Payments: How Peach Payments Is Keeping Your Business Safe
A Deep Dive into the Importance of Payment Security and How Peach Payments Ensures Robust Protection.
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Scaling With Peach Payments: Insights from the Think Bigger Summit 2024
Discover the impactful journey of Peach Payments innovating payment solutions over the past 12 years, and future plans to empower businesses across Africa.
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Peach Payments Named Top 100 Fintech Startups by Cb Insights
Learn how Peach Payments made the 2024 Top 100 Fintech Startups by CB Insights, recognised for innovation and excellence in financial technology
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Peach Payments Partners With Flowcart for Conversational Commerce
Partnership opens up WhatsApp sales channel for merchants preparing for Black Friday
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Key Steps to Ensure Pci Dss V4.0 Compliance
Peach Payments does the heavy lifting, but here’s what you need to do
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Stricter Guidelines. Smarter Security
Here’s what merchants need to know about PCI DSS v4.0
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Peach Payments Acquires Custom Software Development Firm Operativa
Peach Payments acquires custom software development firm Operativa
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Endtoend.mu on Expanding Customer Reach With Mcb Juice
Peach Payments’ alternative payment method, MCB Juice, has been instrumental in helping Endtoend.mu target a larger audience, making the platform more inclusive and accessible to shoppers from all corners of Mauritius.
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The Digital Bloom: How Peach Payments Enabled Bloomable’s Growth
With a focus on quality, community, and customer satisfaction, Bloomable stands out as a pioneer in the online marketplace, transforming the way local florists connect with their customers and compete in the digital landscape.
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World Wide Worx 2024 Online Retail Report
The 2024 World Wide Worx report, sponsored by Peach Payments, Mastercard and AskAfrika, reveals that South Africa’s online retail surged to R71 billion in 2023, with projections to exceed R100 billion by 2026. Discover more key findings below to help your business succeed online.
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Strategic Borrowing: Maximizing the Impact of Business Cash Advance
Investing in tomorrow: The benefits of business cash advance, and how to tell whether a cash advance is right for your business
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Nedbank Direct Eft Now Available Through Peach Payments
Nedbank Direct EFT is now available as a payment option on ecommerce websites that use Peach Payments, a leading South African payment gateway. 
Peach Payments Bowled Over by the Joburg Super Kings
Peach Payments announces it’s sponsorship of the Joburg Super Kings
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Peach Payments Sees Significant Growth This Black Friday Weekend
South Africa-based digital payments platform Peach Payments shares weekend results
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Watch How South Africans Are Buying on Black Friday
Peach Payments today launches its Black Friday Dashboard live on its website
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#peachfriday Merchant Deals
Check out the amazing Black Friday sales that some of our favourite stores are running!
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A Four-point Checklist to Beat the Black Friday Business Blues
Paying attention to a few essential measures can ensure a positive overall shopping experience.
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Understanding Fraud
What measures should business owners take to manage risk and fraud with ecommerce.
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Introduction to Multi-currency Payments
Start using multi-currency on your website. Everything you need to know to start on Shopify, WooCommerce, and your custom website.
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Peach Payments Concludes Us$30m Funding Deal.
Apis Growth Fund II leads round
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Peach Payments Launches Free and Automated Daily Settlements for All Merchants
Peach Payments is excited to offer daily settlements to all merchants making use of its online payment gateway.
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The Ecommerce Hotline Is Here!
Introducing South Africa’s only free ecommerce hotline. Call today to get all your ecommerce questions answered, by our very own team of ecommerce experts.
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Navigating High-risk Industries: a Guide for Peach Payments Merchants
Everything you need to know about using Peach Payments’ payment gateway in high-risk industries, like dropshipping, betting and marketplaces.
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How Julep Gets Paid Quickly With the Payment Flexibility of Payment Links
Blooms to Booms: Julep, starting as a blossoming flower, has grown into an astonishing tale of triumph with Peach Payments!
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Ready, Set, Launch: How to Start an Online Business for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Starting a business from home is a great way to earn money, boost your confidence and develop skills
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Starting Small to African Expansion: Sweepsouth’s Growth Journey With Peach Payments
SweepSouth, a leading on-demand home cleaning services platform, has always aimed to make home cleaning accessible and hassle-free for people across Africa.
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We’ve Added Support for the Headless Magento Cms
Peach Payments Headless Magento plugin support enables faster load times and more seamless checkout experiences for customers.
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Multi-currency and Cross-border Ecommerce in South Africa
Everything you need to know about selling internationally from South Africa – currency converters, multi-currency accounts and everything in between.
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Payment Links: Bulk Upload and Terms of Service Features
Payment Links get you paid from anywhere via the Peach Payments payment gateway. Merchants can now send payment links in bulk, and add their terms of service to their payment links.
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How Unmatched Support & Uptime from Peach Payments Keeps Sa’s Premier Fashion Retailer on Top
The trusted African payment gateway with easy ecommerce integrations and personalised multi-channel support
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Apis Partners Leads €29m (us$31m) Series a Funding for Peach Payments
Apis Growth Fund II, a private equity fund managed by Apis Partners LLP announced its proposed investment of €29M (US$31M) in Peach Payments.
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Peach Payments, Among Other Players, Brings Capitec Pay’s Open Banking and Real-time Payment to the Mass Market.
Peach Payments has partnered with Capitec to launch Capitec Pay, a new open banking payment method that allows online shoppers to make secure and safe payments directly from their Capitec account.
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How to Prevent Fraud As an Sme
Peach Payments Fraud and Risk Manager, Tegan Borchert, points out the main ways to prevent fraud as a small business
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3 Things Small Businesses Can Do to Improve Their Customer Experience
Nadine Martin, Head of Business Operations at Peach Payments, provides 3 ways businesses can improve right now.
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3 Common Support Mistakes Smes & How to Fix Them
Ready to take your small business to the next level? Avoid these mistakes and achieve your goals faster.
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Four Essential Tips for Online Smes Who Want to Expand Internationally
Four essentials online SMEs should consider when they add payment options in a variety of currencies to their sites. 
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Business Owners Take Note: These Are the Times South Africans Shop Online the Most on Black Friday
Are your Black Friday shoppers night owls, afternoon strollers or worker bees?
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Peach Payments’ Black Friday 2022 Summary
South Africa-based digital payments platform Peach Payments shares Black Friday results
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How Online Smes Can Manage Black Friday Logistics
Black Friday is one of the biggest business opportunities of the year, here are some tips on how SMEs can manage Black Friday logistics
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Rahul Jain, Co-founder and Ceo of Peach Payments, Named an Iese 40under40 Best Entrepreneur for 2022
IESE Business School has announced that Peach Payments’ co-founder and CEO Rahul Jain has been named as one of the IESE 40under40 2022 award winners.
Rahul Jain: India-born Entrepreneur Changing Digital Payment Scene in South Africa
Global Indian interviews Peach Payments co-founder, Rahul Jain
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Five Things Smes Can Do Now to Prepare for Black Friday
Six things SMEs can do to get ready for the longest shopping season of the retail year.
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Six Mistakes Smes Make Online
Peach Payments’ Head of SME Growth and Marketing, Joshua Shimkin, highlights six mistakes SMEs tend to make online, and how to solve them.
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What Makes a Payment Gateway Great?
Running a successful Shopfiy store means converting every page visitor into a customer. Peach Payments wide range of payment methods can make that happen.
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How Business Owners Are Skilling Up in 2022
Five ways business owners are skilling up in 2022
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How Ecommerce Merchants Can Take Their Businesses to the Next Level
Growing from a small or mid-sized ecommerce store to a significant player in the market takes time, the right strategy and – consumer trust.
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5 Things to Look for in a Payments Provider
Here are five key things to consider before putting your business online
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Why Investing in the Software Development Community Is a Strategic Business Driver
Developer skills are at the core of South Africa’s and Africa’s regeneration.
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How to Foster a Culture of Learning That Helps Your Business Stay Competitive in a Digital Era
A programme that engineering managers can use to measure how we are learning and how to increase learning their teams
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How to Ship Your Ecommerce Goods
The cost of shipping your product directly effects your profit margin. Find the best courier solution for you.
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Peach Payments Rebrands, Looks to Further African Expansion
Local payments provider Peach Payments today unveiled its new look and feel.
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Peach Payments Introduces Nopcommerce
If you’re looking for an open-source ecommerce solution with the security and reliability of an enterprise ecommerce store, look no further than NopCommerce.
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A Quick Guide to Building Trust Online
A quick run through of the key points to building trust online.
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Does My Business Need Email Workflows?
Email workflows are essential for any ecommerce business. Find out how to get started.
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5 Ecommerce Email Marketing Automations to Implement Today
Email marketing is key to any successful ecommerce business. Implement these automations to optimize your sales funnel.
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Ecommerce Made Easy With Opencart and Peach Payments
Find out how OpenCart and Peach Payments combine to create a professional ecommerce store that converts visitors to paying customers.
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Land the Sale With Your Shopify Store
Running a successful Shopfiy store means converting every page visitor into a customer. Peach Payments wide range of payment methods can make that happen.
How Ecommerce Merchants Can Take Their Businesses to the Next Level
Ecommerce in South Africa is growing every day. Take a closer look at how online businesses are using the trend to scale up.
How to Start an Online Clothing Store
Find out the everything you need to know about starting an online clothing store. From identifying your niche, to selecting a supplier, to marketing your product.
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How Can I Be Sure My Card Details Are Safe With Peach Payments?
With credit card and online payments fraud being rife, it is important to know what security measures are being taken between the merchant you are buying from and the payment gateway you are using to buy.
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Press Release: Ten-year-old Peach Payments Rebrands, Looks to Further African Expansion
Peach Payments has rebranded! Our online payment gateway is set to expand across Africa, and we’ve got a new look to take us on our journey.
How to Shop Safely Online
Security measures for your online payment gateway is vital. Peach Payments provides industry leading security methods, but users have to watch out for scammers as well.
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Local Travel Businesses Expecting Bumper Easter Holiday Bookings
Peach Payments partners with travel and tourism operators, for easy online payments on Wix, Shopify and WooCommerce, and via SDK and API integrations.
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Customer Communications
Customer communications are key when interacting with ecommerce customers. It helps build trust in your brand and let’s customers know that you care about the purchase they’ve made.
Intro to Couriers, Costs, and Ecommerce
Peach Payments online payment gateway has an ebook for you. Learn more about Ecommerce, Costs and Couriers. It’s an all encompassing research ebook that will teach you everything you need to know about delivering your product to your customer’s door.
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Couriers, Costs, and Ecommerce
Download Peach Payment’ new ebook: Couriers, Costs, and Ecommerce. Your favourite online payment gateway has done the heavy lifting by researching everything you need to about delivering your product to your customers’ door.
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How an Entrepreneur With Delhi Roots Is Making Digital Payments Easier in Africa
Times of India – How an entrepreneur with Delhi roots is making digital payments easier in Africa
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Why You Should Integrate Peach Payments With Your Wix Store
Wix stores are a fantastic way to quickly set up an ecommerce business and get selling
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Press Release: Local Payments Provider Sees Record Black Friday Sales
Peach Payments breaks Black Friday transaction record. Online retail is on the rise and online payment gateway partners are watching it happen live.
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Thinking of Starting a Wix Store? Let’s Get You Paid.
Need an online payment gateway for your Wix store? Peach Payments is the perfect payment partner for you. Peach easily plugins into your online store with quick and easy account set up.
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Peach Payments Maximizes Sales Conversion for Woocommerce
Peach Payments provides enterprise-grade payment features for your Wordpress – Woocommercec online store to maximize your sales conversion,
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Enhance Your Shopify Payment Experience With the Peach Payments Plugin
Peach Payments’ Shopify plugin enhances your customers’ checkout process to maximize your sales conversion.
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What Is 3dsecure 2.0?
3D Secure 2.0 is the improved security method for making payments for any digital payment, including payments through your online payment gateway.
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Powerup Your Wordpress Store With Peach Payments
Your Wordpress site needs an Online Payment Gateway. With Peach Payments and Woocommerce, you can add customizable, adaptable payment methods to your ecommerce store.
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Peach Payments Expands Into Mauritius, Serves As Key Event Sponsor at Africa Fintech Festival
Peach Payments online payment gateway celebrates its launch in Mauritius. Find out more about how Peach Payments is growing in the world of online payments.
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Semantica on Launch Hurdles for Ecommerce Entrepreneurs
Semantica explains the challenges ecommerce businesses face when they launch and why it’s necessary to connect with a digital agency.
Version 8 on Ecommerce Success and Payment Gateways
Ecommerce businesses are a dime a dozen, but without the right guide to success and the right online payment gateway, you may never scale your business.
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Is Your Ecommerce Business Scaling?
Scaling your ecommerce business is vital for success. Online payment gateway provider, Peach Payments, provides insight into what scaling looks like.
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Respek Nature: Saving the World One Spekboom at a Time
ReSpek Nature and online payment gateway provider Peach Payments discuss how carbon can be sequestered with spekboom and coming together.
Sweepsouth on Scaling With the Right Payment Gateway
SMEs like SweepSouth use Peach Payments as their online payment gateway for their industry leading customer support, high conversion rate, subscription payment options and secure transactions.
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How Peach Payments Helps You Scale Your Ecommerce Business
Scaling up is one of the biggest challenges facing an ecommerce business, and making sure you have a payment gateway that enables that growth is an important piece of the puzzle.
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Payment Gateways, Scaling, and Ecommerce: Develocks Explains
Develocks are a Shopify development studio focusing on ecommerce and digital marketing. They use the Peach Payments payment gateway because of superior customer service and easy integrations.
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How to Help South Africa
Here is a list of businesses and organisations that are assisting these affected areas.
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How to Start Your Online Fitness Business
Here are some tips for getting started with a personal training website where you can host live virtual classes and keep your clients happy.
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Peach Payments and Ecomplete Solve 5 Big Problems in Ecommerce
Peach Payments and eComplete put their heads together to explain their solutions to the biggest problems faced by ecommerce businesses in South Africa.
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How to Keep Your Food and Drink Business Open During Level 4 Lockdown
When the country is in Level 4 Lockdown, you need to make sure that your food and drink business can stay open.
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Things to Consider When Starting a Side Hustle
Here we explore some online tools that will help you build a budding ecommerce empire
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Danger Signs to Look Out for When Shopping Online
Make sure you have a safe online shopping experience if you follow these five tips
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#shopwithlove This Father’s Day
This Father’s Day, we’ve put together a list of our top picks so you can #ShopWIthLove at these businesses to spoil yourself or the men in your life
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How the Youth Are Impacting the Digital Economy
This month, we want to highlight some of the amazing African youths that are making a huge impact on society and the digital economy.
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Honeywhale on Value for Customers and What Clients Want from a Payment Gateway
Honeywhale is a development studio, specialising in ecommerce and Shopify. We spoke to them about online payment gateways and ecommerce in South Africa.
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Side Hustle 101
With the help of technology, side hustles are a great way to diversify your income. Over the next few weeks, we are going to help get your side hustle started. 
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Netflorist Partners With Peach Payments to Improve Conversion Rate
Netflorist, recognized as one of SA’s leading ecommerce companies, have partnered with Peach Payments to improve their transaction rates.
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Shopify Experts Tellmann on Ecommerce and Online Payments
Shopify development experts Tellmann talk ecommerce, payment gateways and all things online business with the Peach Payments team.
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5 Tools Your Small Business Needs
We’ve put together a list of 5 affordable tools that we believe will make running your small business easier and efficient.
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Shop With Love: Momtrepenuers
#ShopWIthLove + Peach Payments at these amazing businesses to spoil yourself or the special women in your life this Mother’s Day.
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Meet Emgee: Sustainable Fashion
Emgee believes in sustainable fashion and buying local. Their products are Proudly South African and are designed, manufactured and sourced locally.
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Meet Honeey: Premium Fashion — Affordable Prices
Honeey’s main focus is bringing their customers premium fashion pieces and trendy clothing at affordable prices whilst giving their customers great service
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Meet Gillybean: the Best of Beauty
Gillybean sources some of the best international and local hair, beauty and skincare products.
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Meet Thira: Travel and Passion Combined
Travel and passion is what brought Thira home to reveal its Ancient Santorini secrets. 
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Top 5 Benefits of Having an Instagram Shop
Instagram Shop which has taken the social media scene by storm, giving ecommerce businesses a brand new space to sell their products.
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Fintech Peach Payments Attracts Investment to Accelerate Growth
South African fintech Peach Payments has netted additional investments to capitalise on accelerated e-commerce growth over the last year.
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8 Books That Every Entrepreneur Should Read
These books have had an impact on our team and we hope it does the same for yours. Here’s our top 8 books we suggest every entrepreneur should read!
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8 Ways for Smes to Improve Email Marketing
Here are some tips and tricks to give your business an edge when it comes to your email marketing strategy so you can boost your conversion rates.
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The Best Help for Wix, Woocommerce and Shopify in 2021
Apps, tutorials and inspirational websites for ecommerce merchants on Wix, WooCommerce or Shopify.
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Peach Payments Brings Apple Pay to South African Businesses
Peach Payments, a world-class payment gateway offering simple, seamless and secure online payments services, today brings its customers Apple Pay.
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How Product Photography Increases Conversions for Your Ecommerce Store
Great product images on your ecommerce website of your products have been known to increase conversion rates by up to 86%.
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Things Every Ecommerce Sme Should Know About SEO
Tips and Tricks to get your ecommerce store Search Engine Optomized
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Why Good Email Automation Is a Must-have for Any Ecommerce Store
Using email automation effectively will help boost your sales by up to 50%!
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Wix, Woocommerce or Shopify? the Best Ecommerce Platform for You
All you need to know about starting an ecommerce business on Shopify, Wix, WooCommerce, Big Commerce, Ecwid, OpenCart
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10 Benefits of Social Media for Your Business
It’s no longer optional for businesses to have social media. It’s an essential tool to grow your brand and collect valuable insights. 
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How to Get Started on Wix
Get your ecommerce business started on WIX in 10 easy steps.
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How to Raise Capital for Your Business
It’s time to make your own money tree by sifting through the different ways you can get funding for your business. 
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There’s Always Opportunities in a Crisis for Entrepreneurs
When one door closes another opens, and 2020 has closed a lot of doors, opening up new ones to things like working from home, learning online or buying and selling on a website or an app.
5 Ways Small Businesses Can Use Social Media Effectively in 2021
It’s no longer optional for your business to have social media.
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Case Study: Solenco
Solenco – in its current form – started in 2006/7 “as a result of some consulting work we were doing for a UK based company who was then the largest domestic air treatment appliance importer and distributor into that country,” says the company’s Bianca Leonard.
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Case Study: Soccermom
Soccermom started as a service to provide safe and reliable transport for children – as a recruitment agent connecting drivers and clients. 
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Case Study: Mode
Mode Store offers gaming merchandise, accessories, and tech for a niche but fast-growing market of young and adult customers, stocking a range of products from Fortnite, Minecraft, Call of Duty, Cyberpunk 2077, Assassin’s Creed, Bitty Boomers, and much more.
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Case Study: Foxy Mama
How Foxy Mama boosts their ecommerce sales by using Peach Payments
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Case Study: Laini Creations
Laini Creations started when Sammy struggled to find good, long-lasting quality satin products and launched a range of chic satin bonnets/doeks and pillowcases after sourcing quality materials for personal use.
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Peach Payments Gives Small Businesses a Boost for Black Friday
Peach Payments has delivered a number of initiatives aimed at supporting their small-to-medium (SME) ecommerce customers to increase their sales.
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Uw Ventures Invest in Peach Payments for Africa Expansion
Peach Payments has raised growth funding to drive its expansion into Africa.
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Top 9 Technological Trends of 2021
You’ve probably already noticed that the world is busy bowing to the new technological trends that have arisen out of the global pandemic.
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