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Payment infrastructure for financial businesses across Africa

Make it easier to accept payments, move money, manage settlement and stay on top of payment activity with infrastructure built to support financial businesses across 8 African markets.

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African markets

99%

Uptime SLA

24/7

Infrastructure monitoring

Built for the way financial businesses move money

Whether you are building a fintech product, running payment services, lending to customers or moving money across markets, payments sit at the centre of how your business works. Banks are an important part of the wider payment ecosystem โ€” Payonus provides payment infrastructure for businesses operating within it.

Fintechs

Build payment capabilities into the products and experiences your customers use.

Payment Service Providers

Support the payment flows involved in helping merchants and businesses accept and move money.

Lending Businesses

Manage the payment flows involved in collecting repayments and sending funds to borrowers.

Remittance Companies

Support the payment activity involved in receiving and moving funds across customer journeys.

Wallet & Payment Businesses

Connect payment infrastructure to the way users fund, use and move money through your platform.

Other Financial-Service Businesses

Explore payment capabilities based on the way your business collects, moves, settles and manages funds.

When payments become harder to manage, the rest of the business feels it

As a financial business grows, more customers, transactions, products and markets can create more payment complexity โ€” without creating more friction for customers or more manual work for your team.

Make it easier for customers and users to pay

Reliable ways to collect funds without unnecessary friction in the customer journey.

Move money without more operational work

Paying customers, users, merchants or partners can become harder when payout workflows are fragmented.

Know when funds are available

Settlement timing and visibility can affect cash flow, reconciliation and day-to-day operations.

Stop managing payments across disconnected systems

Separate systems mean more time managing integrations and reconciling activity.

See what is happening across your payments

Spread-out payment data makes it harder to get a clear picture of activity.

Expand without unnecessary complexity

New markets can introduce different payment environments and operational requirements.

Security and accountability

Growing payment activity needs infrastructure that supports security and monitoring.

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You should not have to rebuild your business around your payment infrastructure.

Infrastructure built around what your payment operations need to do

Payonus brings together payment capabilities that can support how your business accepts money, moves funds, manages settlement, and monitors payment activity.

Help customers and users pay with less friction

Connect payment collection workflows to the products and experiences your customers already use.

Explore Collection

Move money where it needs to go

Support payment flows that send funds to customers, users, merchants, partners, or other recipients.

Explore Payout

Get faster access to settled funds where it matters

Support payment operations where settlement speed and access to settled funds affect how the business manages its operations.

Explore Instant Settlement

Build payments into your product instead of around it

Connect payment capabilities to the products, platforms and workflows your business already operates.

Explore Payment API

See what is happening without piecing data together manually

Get visibility into payment activity and transaction performance to support operational decisions.

Explore Analytics & Reporting

Payment infrastructure that can fit into your existing environment

Payonus can be considered around your existing products, systems, workflows, and payment requirements.

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Connect through the Payment API

Integrate relevant Payonus payment capabilities into your existing platforms and workflows.

Explore Payment API
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Bring related payment workflows closer together

Collections, payouts, settlement and reporting can support a more connected payment environment.

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Start with the requirements of your business

The relevant setup depends on your payment flows, technical environment and operational needs.

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Keep track of payment activity

Use Analytics & Reporting to monitor payment activity and transaction performance.

Explore Analytics & Reporting
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Evaluate Payonus as you expand

Payonus operates across 8 African markets and can be evaluated as your requirements grow.

Built for secure, accountable payment operations

Payment infrastructure is a critical part of a financial business. Security, monitoring, and accountability matter alongside payment functionality.

ISO 27001

Part of Payonus's information security framework.

PCI DSS Level 1

Compliance for payment security.

Encryption

Protects payment data across the infrastructure.

KYC & Transaction Audit Trails

Visibility and accountability across payment activity.

24/7 Infrastructure Monitoring

Supporting reliable payment operations.

99% Uptime SLA

A defined availability commitment.

Start with your payment environment

The right setup depends on how your business already operates. The process starts with understanding what you need before determining how Payonus can fit.

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Understand your payment requirements

Discuss your payment model, workflows, operational needs and existing payment environment.

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Review your technical environment

Identify the systems, APIs and workflows that may need to connect.

3

Determine the relevant setup

Identify which Payonus capabilities are relevant to your requirements.

4

Connect the relevant capabilities

Integrate through the appropriate technical workflow, including the Payment API where applicable.

Explore Developer Documentation
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Support the transition

Work with the Payonus team around the technical and operational requirements of implementation.

Spend less time working around payments and more time building the business

The value of payment infrastructure is what it allows your business to do with less friction and complexity.

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Keep payment operations moving

Support collection, payout and settlement workflows that fit the needs of your business.

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Reduce friction in payment journeys

Create more connected payment experiences for customers, users and other recipients.

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Reduce unnecessary operational complexity

Bring relevant payment capabilities into a more coordinated environment.

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Get clearer visibility into payment activity

Use Analytics & Reporting to understand payment activity and support operational decisions.

Explore Analytics & Reporting
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Support growth across markets

Evaluate Payonus across its 8 current African markets as your payment requirements expand.

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Modernise how payments fit into your product

Connect payment capabilities to existing products and workflows through API-based infrastructure.

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Support changing business requirements

Consider payment capabilities around changing customer, product and operational needs.

The payment infrastructure behind your operations

Different financial businesses have different payment needs. Payonus brings together the infrastructure that can support how your business accepts money, moves funds, manages settlement, and keeps track of payment activity.

Collection

Support the way your business accepts and manages incoming payments.

Explore Collection

Payout

Move funds to customers, users, merchants, partners and other recipients.

Explore Payout

Instant Settlement

Support payment operations where faster settlement matters.

Explore Instant Settlement

Payment API

Connect payment capabilities to your existing products, platforms and workflows.

Explore Payment API

Analytics & Reporting

Get visibility into payment activity and transaction performance.

Explore Analytics & Reporting

Support your payment operations across 8 African markets

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Frequently asked questions

Payonus can support different financial-service business models, including fintechs, PSPs, lending businesses, remittance companies, wallet and payment businesses. The relevant setup depends on your payment workflows and requirements.

Yes. Payonus provides a Payment API that can connect relevant payment capabilities with existing platforms and workflows.

Collection, Payout, Instant Settlement, Payment API, and Analytics & Reporting.

Yes. Analytics & Reporting provides visibility into payment activity and transaction performance.

Payonus maintains ISO 27001 and PCI DSS Level 1, uses encryption, and applies KYC processes and transaction audit trails.

Yes. Payonus provides 24/7 infrastructure monitoring and maintains a 99% uptime SLA.

Payonus capabilities can be considered around changing payment, technical and operational requirements as your business grows.

Yes. You can discuss your payment workflows, integration requirements and operational needs with the Payonus team to determine whether there is a suitable fit.

Let's see whether Payonus fits your payment operations

Tell us how your business accepts, moves and manages money. We'll discuss your payment environment, integration requirements and the capabilities that may be relevant to your business.

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