Cape Town, South Africa – October 13th – MoneyHash, the leading payment orchestration platform operating across emerging and global markets, has announced a new partnership with Ozow, a leading South African fintech and payments provider.

The partnership aims to expand access to local online payment methods in South Africa through MoneyHash’s unified payment infrastructure. Through the integration, businesses using MoneyHash can connect to Ozow through their existing MoneyHash integration, reducing the need to build and maintain a separate technical connection. This enables merchants to expand the South Africa payment methods available to their customers while managing their wider payment stack through a single orchestration layer.

Strengthening access to South Africa's digital payments ecosystem

South Africa has developed one of the continent’s most sophisticated digital payments markets, with businesses increasingly looking beyond traditional card payments to offer consumers a wider range of payment options. As the number of online payment methods in South Africa continues to expand, businesses can find themselves managing multiple providers, technical integrations, reporting systems, and operational processes.

“Having worked within South Africa’s payments ecosystem, I’ve seen both how quickly the market has evolved and the complexity businesses face as they scale their payment operations,” said Hwan Lee, Regional Director for Africa at MoneyHash. “There is a significant opportunity for orchestration to connect strong local payment infrastructure with businesses that want to grow within South Africa and across the continent.”

Payment orchestration helps simplify this complexity. Rather than separately integrating and maintaining connections with multiple payment processors in South Africa, merchants can use an orchestration layer such as MoneyHash to connect to and manage different providers and payment methods through one infrastructure.

The Ozow integration adds another important local capability to this ecosystem, allowing MoneyHash merchants operating in or expanding into South Africa to access Ozow while managing their broader payment operations through MoneyHash.

Building on 12 years of Ozow

The partnership comes as Ozow marks 12 years in South Africa’s digital payments market, bringing more than a decade of experience in the country’s evolving digital payment landscape.

Ozow offers South African businesses access to a broad range of payment capabilities, including its market-leading pay by bank, card payments, Google Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay, as well as 24/7 instant payouts and withdrawals, voucher payments and pay by crypto. Integrating an established local provider such as Ozow strengthens the range of South Africa payment methods businesses can access through MoneyHash giving merchants greater flexibility to serve different payment preferences through a unified infrastructure.

“Over the past 12 years, we’ve seen South Africa’s digital payments landscape evolve significantly, alongside growing demand from businesses for simpler and more flexible ways to accept payments.” said Catherine Korsten, Chief Growth Officer. “Our partnership with MoneyHash creates another avenue for merchants to access Ozow, while reducing the complexity of integrating and managing multiple payment solutions.”

For MoneyHash, the partnership forms part of a broader strategy to deepen its payment infrastructure across Africa by integrating established local payment providers and giving merchants easier access to the capabilities relevant to each market.

Local infrastructure, unified through MoneyHash’s payment orchestration

The partnership also follows MoneyHash’s appointment of Hwan Lee as Regional Director for Africa. Lee previously held a leadership role at Ozow, bringing first-hand knowledge of the South African payments ecosystem to MoneyHash’s regional expansion.

As businesses grow in South Africa and across markets, managing connections with different payment gateways in South Africa and other local providers can place increasing demands on technical and operational teams. MoneyHash centralizes capabilities such as routing, transaction management, and reporting, giving merchants a unified way to manage their payment infrastructure as they scale.

For global merchants, this provides a more efficient route to local payment infrastructure, while South African businesses gain greater flexibility to manage multiple payment gateways and payment processors in South Africa as part of a broader payment strategy. By connecting global payment infrastructure with relevant local providers and South Africa payment methods, MoneyHash aims to make expansion easier without adding the same level of operational complexity.