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9 verified resources in APIs for building in South Africa.

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25
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11
Last verified
25 Aug 2026

Ozow

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Ozow, formerly i-Pay, is a South African instant smart EFT and open-banking payment provider that lets customers pay directly from their bank account. Its API generates payment links and exposes transaction-status endpoints such as GetTransaction and GetTransactionByReference on api.ozow.com.

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Open Banking
Verified Aug 2026

Stitch

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South African open-banking and pay-by-bank platform exposing a GraphQL API for Pay By Bank, Card, DebiCheck, Manual EFT, Capitec Pay and disbursements, with an in-browser Stitch IDE for building queries. Distinctive for its GraphQL-first developer experience.

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Open Banking
Verified Aug 2026

Yoco

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South African card-payments provider offering a developer hub with online payment APIs, SDKs, an API explorer, ecommerce plugins (WooCommerce, Wix, Shopify) and an MCP server for AI integrations. Docs hosted on a Fern-powered developer hub.

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Payments
Verified Aug 2026

Datanamix

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[ingest-scout] South African credit bureau REST API suite covering identity verification against the Department of Home Affairs, bank account verification, AML/PEP sanctions screening, CIPC company search, FaceTec biometric checks, and affordability assessments. Developer Hub confirmed live with Swagger tool and API Manager; processes millions of API calls monthly for SA banks and insurers. Fills the South Africa KYC/credit data gap in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

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Luno

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South Africa headquartered cryptocurrency exchange offering a REST API for account, wallet and trading operations plus a streaming WebSocket feed for market and order updates. Lets developers access market data, place orders and move crypto and fiat programmatically. Widely used across African and international markets.

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FX / Crypto
Verified Aug 2026

Peach Payments

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African payment gateway serving merchants across South Africa, Mauritius and other regional markets with a Payments API, checkout, payment links, mobile SDKs and point-of-sale devices. Supports cards and multiple alternative payment methods behind a single integration. Documentation is published on its developer hub.

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Payment Gateway
Verified Aug 2026

Revio

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[ingest-scout] South African payment orchestration platform giving merchants a single PCI-compliant API to route across 70+ payment methods including DebiCheck; fetched docs.reviopay.com and confirmed live docs with Swagger reference at gate.reviopay.com/api/ and webhook management. Adds an orchestration layer to Wycord's South Africa section (Yoco, Stitch, Ozow are point-solutions, not orchestrators).

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

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Verified Aug 2026

SnapScan Merchant API

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[ingest-scout] South Africa's widely-used QR payment platform developer API covering QR code generation, payment status queries, and cash-up period management with code examples in JS, Python, Ruby, PHP, C#, and Java. Fetched live this run with full REST documentation and e-commerce integrations (WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, PayGate); base URL pos.snapscan.io confirms active production service. Not yet in the registry despite broad SA merchant adoption.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

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Verified Aug 2026

VALR

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South African cryptocurrency exchange (licensed FSP 53308) providing a REST API for trading and a WebSocket service for streaming market, order and balance updates. Supports buying and selling 60-plus cryptocurrencies and withdrawing both crypto and fiat programmatically. API keys require account 2FA to be enabled.

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FX / Crypto
Verified Aug 2026