Blog

News and insights from our experts

Case Study

aYo diversifies insurance payment options with Revio

African insurtech aYo Holdings, jointly owned by telecommunications giant MTN and insurer Sanlam Allianz, is pioneering omnichannel insurance premium collections and claims payouts, through a partnership with payment orchestrator, Revio.

Announcements

Revio hires experienced VP of Finance & Operations to accelerate scale

Erica Bester, former Group CFO of global authentication company Entersekt, joins Revio as Vice President of Finance and Operations. In this role, Erica will lead the company’s strategic and financial operations, to support accelerated growth in Revio’s existing and new markets.

Announcements

Announcing Revio's $5.2 million Seed round

‍Revio, the payment orchestration platform helping merchants optimize their order to cash lifecycle, today announced a seed investment round of $5.2 million. The funding round was led by leading fintech fund QED Investors, joined by Partech and continued participation from Revio’s existing investors, Speedinvest, RaliCap, and Everywhere VC. 

Announcements

Revio adds FinTech executive Munya Chiura to advisory board to accelerate African expansion

Africa FinTech executive, Munya Chiura, joins Revio's advisory board. Chiura is a sought-after growth leader with former roles including Head of Growth for Rest of Africa at Flutterwave. Chiura shared that Revio “is targeting a key barrier to growth for businesses in Africa” through targeting “fragmentation and a lack of interoperability” of payment methods.

Announcements

Former Payworks CEO, Christian Deger, joins Revio’s advisory board

Former founder and CEO of Payworks, Christian Deger, joins Revio's advisory board. This move sees the payments veteran throw his experience and reputation behind a startup focused on using payments data to optimize revenue collection and assurance across Africa. 

Insights

5 ways to increase payment success rates

Globally, card payments fail 10-15% of the time. In emerging markets, this failure rate is much higher – ranging as high as 40%. Payment failures not only result in immediate lost revenue, but can impact future sales, with 62% of customers opting not to return to a website after experiencing a failed payment. In this article, we highlight 5 tried-and-tested ways that business can increase payment success rates. 

Insights

Payment Orchestration: The next wave of payment innovation in emerging markets

In emerging markets, the payments ecosystem is particularly fragmented, with multiple payment methods operating independently. By consolidating payment processing and management, payment orchestration can help businesses to increase acceptance rates, improve operational efficiency, and enhance user experience – taking the pain out of getting paid. 

Product

Featured Feature: Debit Order API

In Southern Africa, debit orders are still the primary method for collecting recurring revenue. However, the payment method is complex and costly to implement, and can be risky to manage at scale. Find out how Revio's Debit Order API simplifies this complexity, making debit order accessible and scalable to businesses of all sizes.

Announcements

Looking back at an eventful year at Revio

As the year comes to a close, our COO reflects on the African payments landscape and what the future holds for Revio

Announcements

Revio raises $1.1m to solve the payment failure problem in emerging markets

Revio raises $1.1 million from leading investors to solve the payments failure problem in emerging markets. The round was led by SpeedInvest, joined by Ralicap Ventures, The Fund, and Two Culture Capital.

Case Study

Old Mutual partners with Revio to enable online payments for SMEs

Old Mutual, Africa's largest insurer, launched SMEgo to help SMEs run and grow their businesses on the go. Our partnership enables SMEs to receive card and EFT payments instantly, helping businesses get paid on time and better manage cash flow.

Case Study

How Anytime Fitness accelerates market expansion with Revio

Anytime Fitness is a franchise of 24-hour health and fitness clubs with more than 5,000 locations in 35 countries. Learn how the group collects recurring payments and accelerates market expansion using Revio's Payments API.

Product

Featured Feature: Split Settlements

Seamlessly settle into multiple accounts in multiple countries and currencies, optimising your cash flow and transaction costs. Perfect for marketplaces, franchises, and revenue share models.

Team

Why I joined Revio? Words from our new COO, Nicole Dunn

Joining us from a career in venture building and investing, our new COO shares why she excited about scaling Revio. Spoiler: What do you get when you combine a multi-billion dollar market opportunity, best-in-class technology, and a team with 50+ years payments experience? That's right: Revio.

Insights

How a seamless payment process can improve customer experience

Whether customers are checking out on an e-commerce site, paying an invoice or setting up recurring subscription transactions, the process must be seamless and straight forward. Giving customers the control the way they pay and enhance their customer experience.

Announcements

Revio and FCB.ai use intelligent tech to improve people's lives

When it comes to customer engagement, brands can no longer focus on the transactional aspects of their relationship. It is an ongoing process that extends beyond sales and support to proactively anticipating your customers' needs. Read how FCB.ai and Revio's partnership enables this at scale.

Announcements

Ozow and Revio partner to make payments even easier

For businesses entering the subscription commerce market, creating a frictionless end-to-end experience is critical. More importantly, people want the freedom to pay using any method of their choice and expect businesses to accept a wide range of payment methods. This is where the partnership between Ozow and Revio comes in.

Announcements

Pay@ and Revio partner up to digitise cash payments

Pay@ and Revio have partnered to further bridge the gap for financial services providers, like Funeral parlours and Insurers that deal with high cash volumes, the ability to digitise one-off or recurring cash payments seamlessly.

Team

5 Minutes With Revio CCO, Pieter Grobbelaar

We recently chatted to our Chief Commercial Officer, Pieter Grobbelaar, who has shared his thoughts on the subscription billing landscape in Africa and how businesses can reap the benefits of automation.

Announcements

Stitch partners with Revio

Stitch and Revio have partnered to offer Revio customers a simple and secure way to enable payments via bank transfer, and improve their user experience.

Insights

The rise of the South African subscription economy

South Africa’s subscription economy is fast growing. We’ll be taking you through what this means, why you should embrace it, and what you’ll need to change to do so. 

Insights

Want to Satisfy Gen Z and Millenials? Offer Buy Now, Pay Later

Does your business offer buy now, pay later as a payment option? Well, it should. Find out why millennials and Gen Z love this option. 

Insights

The benefits of using a low code & SaaS-friendly recurring billing platform

Subscription-based businesses are faced with the challenge of automating their billing and invoicing processes as they scale up.

Insights

Could your payment provider or gateway be bad for business?

The boom in e-commerce also saw the rise of payment gateways. Like payment services providers, payment gateways make it easy for a business to process customer payments.

Insights

There is more to getting paid than accepting & collecting payments

E-commerce platforms, such as Shopify and WooCommerce, have significantly lowered the barrier to entry for merchants to take their business online.

Insights

3 Ways to Stop Involuntary Churn

There are three ways you can decrease your involuntary churn rate: send pre-dunning emails, optimize your website or app, and give customers lots of payment options.

Contact sales for a customised demo

Pay as you go pricing, with best-in-market transaction fees and no monthly contract. Get started in minutes.