What South African stores use to take payment.

Counted across every published storefront where we could read the checkout — not a survey, not a vendor's own number. Gateways, credit, wallets and bare bank rails are counted separately, because they are not alternatives to each other.

Payment gateway

#1 Payfast — 7,988 storefronts, 45.8%
#2 Yoco — 3,762 storefronts, 21.6%
#3 Stitch — 1,263 storefronts, 7.2%
#4 Paystack — 1,066 storefronts, 6.1%
#5 Peach Payments — 855 storefronts, 4.9%
#6 Ozow — 475 storefronts, 2.7%
#7 PayGate — 471 storefronts, 2.7%
#8 Stripe — 374 storefronts, 2.1%
#9 Shopify Payments — 218 storefronts, 1.3%
#10 Bob Pay — 175 storefronts, 1.0%
#11 iKhokha — 87 storefronts, 0.5%
#12 Onerway — 58 storefronts, 0.3%
#13 Global-e — 51 storefronts, 0.3%
#14 Authorize.net — 35 storefronts, 0.2%
#15 Airwallex — 33 storefronts, 0.2%
#16 iPay — 32 storefronts, 0.2%
#17 PayU — 25 storefronts, 0.1%
#18 WooPayments — 25 storefronts, 0.1%
#19 Adumo Online — 25 storefronts, 0.1%
#20 OPay — 20 storefronts, 0.1%
#21 Braintree — 19 storefronts, 0.1%
#22 ChipIn — 19 storefronts, 0.1%
#23 Walletdoc — 19 storefronts, 0.1%
#24 Oceanpayment — 17 storefronts, 0.1%
#25 Tap Payments — 4 storefronts, <0.1%
#26 Flutterwave — 4 storefronts, <0.1%
#27 DPO Pay — 3 storefronts, <0.1%
#28 Pesapal — 2 storefronts, <0.1%
#29 MyFatoorah — 1 storefront, <0.1%
#30 Payzone — 1 storefront, <0.1%
#31 Nomba — 1 storefront, <0.1%

Buy now, pay later

#1 Payflex — 2,117 storefronts, 12.1%
#2 PayJustNow — 990 storefronts, 5.7%
#3 Happy Pay — 371 storefronts, 2.1%
#4 Mobicred — 367 storefronts, 2.1%
#5 Float — 190 storefronts, 1.1%
#6 WigWag — 152 storefronts, 0.9%
#7 Afterpay — 29 storefronts, 0.2%
#8 Klarna — 21 storefronts, 0.1%
#9 Paidy — 1 storefront, <0.1%

Wallet & mobile money

#1 PayPal — 2,541 storefronts, 14.6%
#2 Zapper — 521 storefronts, 3.0%
#3 Capitec Pay — 519 storefronts, 3.0%
#4 SnapScan — 116 storefronts, 0.7%
#5 Apple Pay — 90 storefronts, 0.5%
#6 Google Pay — 47 storefronts, 0.3%
#7 Shop Pay — 10 storefronts, 0.1%
#8 M-Pesa — 3 storefronts, <0.1%
#9 Paga — 1 storefront, <0.1%

Payment method (not ranked against gateways)

Bank transfer — 3,592 storefronts, 20.6%
Cash on delivery — 541 storefronts, 3.1%
EFT — 472 storefronts, 2.7%
Cheque — 86 storefronts, 0.5%
PayShap — 6 storefronts, <0.1%
Konbini — 1 storefront, <0.1%

Card network (not ranked against gateways)

Card (unspecified) — 91 storefronts, 0.5%
American Express — 5 storefronts, <0.1%
Mastercard — 3 storefronts, <0.1%
Visa — 2 storefronts, <0.1%

Test gateway (not ranked against gateways)

Bogus Gateway (test) — 132 storefronts, 0.8%

Share of the 17,441 published South African storefronts where our crawler could read the checkout. Stores usually offer several options, so shares do not sum to 100%. 97.1% of provider names resolve to a canonical entity. These are counts of availability at the checkout, not volume.