The aroma of rich coffee wafts through the air as Xolile Malindi leans behind the counter of House of Machines, a hip café in the heart of Cape Town. Opposite him, a young customer approaches the bar, ...

Providing your e-commerce customers with a variety of payment options is essential to attracting new clients and increasing your turnover, as additional payment methods make it easier for your users ...

The technological world is constantly evolving and producing new and exciting products designed to make our lives easier. Once your small business in biz.albertonrecord.co.za has gotten off the ground ...

The Standard Bank Merchant Solutions team continue to provide South African merchants with a wide range of card and payment solutions geared towards enhancing efficiency and convenience. Standard Bank ...

Flash back a few years and things weren’t looking great for QR codes. The Matrix barcode, first designed for the automotive industry in Japan, had its supporters to be sure, but the idea that they ...

South Africa-based Standard Bank will formally launch its SnapScan mobile payment application to more than 10,000 merchants across the country, allowing them to accept payments from customers using QR ...

Contactless and cashless payments might still have a long way to go in South Africa, but SnapScan has been making good progress in the country on that front in the last few months. The technology ...

Standard Bank says its SnapScan app has been taken up by more than 12 000 small businesses across SA in the three months since it has gone live. SnapScan allows a user to pay by scanning a code ...

Increased fuel costs, interest rate hikes, and continuous loadshedding; there’s no doubt that small business owners are feeling the pinch. While costs associated with doing business are increasing, ...

Wendy Knowler follows up on the case of a SnapScan user who had an amount X3 bigger than the purchase cost taken off his bank account. Bruce Whitfield talks digital payment systems with consumer ninja ...