VodaPay
Country: South Africa (ZA) | Payment Rail: e_wallet
DigitalWallet
Market Adoption: 30%
VodaPay is Vodacom's digital wallet super-app in South Africa, enabling mobile e-commerce checkout, QR payments, and automated subscription debits.
🔄 User Payment Flow
- Customer selects VodaPay at merchant checkout
- Checkout opens VodaPay super-app or displays VodaPay QR code
- Customer confirms payment source and authorizes via biometric auth / PIN
- VodaPay debits wallet balance and returns real-time confirmation token to merchant
⚙️ Characteristics & Settlement
| Instant Payment | YES |
| Supports QR | YES |
| Supports Recurring | YES |
| Supports Refund | YES |
🛠️ Merchant Integration Steps
- Merchant API calls acquiring gateway for VodaPay session token
- PSP issues payment token and VodaPay app deep link
- PSP receives VodaPay clearing webhook notification and confirms order status