MoneyHash and Ozow partner to bring South African local payment methods to orchestration merchants

Payment orchestration platform MoneyHash and South African payments company Ozow announced a partnership on 14 October 2026. Businesses that already use MoneyHash can now connect to Ozow through their existing integration, without building a separate technical link, and manage those flows alongside the rest of their payment providers. Ozow, founded in 2014, is one of South Africa's main local payment providers. Its range includes pay by bank, card payments, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay, PayShap requests, instant payouts, refunds and withdrawals, voucher payments, pay by crypto and buy now, pay later. It is licensed by the Payments Association of South Africa as a system operator and third-party payment provider. MoneyHash, which works across emerging and global markets, centralises routing, transaction management and reporting for merchants. Both companies framed the deal around demand for options beyond cards in South Africa. MoneyHash said it is part of a wider plan to add established local providers across Africa, while Ozow gains a new distribution channel into MoneyHash's merchant base. Neither firm named merchants or disclosed pricing. The partnership matters to online merchants because South African shoppers increasingly expect instant bank payments and local wallets at checkout, and supporting them has usually meant a separate local contract and integration. Access through an orchestration layer lowers that barrier for international sellers entering the market. It arrives in the same week that Nuvei said it had received approval from the Payments Association of South Africa to offer local merchant services, a sign that competition to serve merchants there is growing.