African Payment Solutions

Taking global businesses into Africa.

Africa represents enormous opportunity, but doing business across its markets is complex: different payment methods, currencies, banking systems, regulations and infrastructure in every country. African Payment Solutions bridges that gap. We combine payments expertise, local market knowledge and our own technology to make African commerce simpler.

The company behind LekkaPay
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Africa is the opportunity. Complexity is the challenge.

Africa is a large, fast-growing and diverse market. For multinational eCommerce businesses, the challenge is not simply getting paid. It is navigating fragmented payment infrastructure, multiple currencies, local payment preferences and the practical realities of operating across many countries at once.

That is where we come in.

One continent. Many markets. No single way to pay.

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Who we are

We know Africa. We know payments.

We are payments entrepreneurs with decades of experience across the UK, Europe and Africa. We have built payment businesses before. We understand merchants, payment infrastructure, banking relationships and the realities of operating in African markets. And we are building the next generation of payment infrastructure through LekkaPay.

  1. We know Africa

    Local understanding and relationships across African markets.

  2. We know payments

    Decades of experience across online payments and financial technology.

  3. We make things happen

    Entrepreneurial, practical and focused on solving real merchant problems.

What we do

Helping businesses operate across Africa

African Payment Solutions helps multinational businesses:

  1. Accept payments through locally relevant payment methods

  2. Navigate different African markets

  3. Work with local banking and payment infrastructure

  4. Manage cross-border payment complexity

  5. Access local market and commercial expertise

  6. Build more efficient payment operations

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Where we work

Our markets

  • South Africa

    Home market

    Our established home market and operational base.

  • Kenya

    Building capability

    Building capability in this key African digital payments market.

  • Nigeria

    Expanding with our merchants

    Working with our merchants to expand into one of Africa's largest and most dynamic digital economies.

  • Europe

    Through Europe Payment Solutions

    Euro payment collection and acquiring for our African merchants, through our sibling company Europe Payment Solutions.

Building across Africa. Our footprint grows with our merchants, one market at a time.

Where we are today

Real experience. Real traction.

African Payment Solutions is already operating, through aggregator and merchant relationships that reach around 630 merchants.

In 2026 we went live with our own bespoke, purpose-built payment gateway, together with ISO and payment facilitator (PayFac) facilities. Our focus is on large merchants, aggregators, platforms and multi-merchant operators.

We have also developed relationships and opportunities across utilities, travel and tourism, retail, iGaming and cross-border commerce.

Sectors
  • Utilities
  • Travel and tourism
  • Retail
  • iGaming
  • Cross-border commerce
merchants reached through our aggregator relationships
630
Source: Internal count via aggregator partners, 2026 (approximate) [PENDING: merchant-count-source]
of payments experience behind the company
20+ years
Source: Team heritage, African Payment Solutions
our own gateway, ISO and PayFac facilities live
2026
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LekkaPay

Powered by LekkaPay

The technology behind African Payment Solutions.

LekkaPay is our proprietary, cloud-based payment technology platform. It provides the infrastructure that lets us connect merchants to payment methods and payment infrastructure across African markets. It is built and maintained by our own technical team.

Looking ahead

Building the future of African commerce.

Our vision extends beyond payment acceptance. We are exploring a more connected financial infrastructure for businesses operating across Africa, bringing together payments, currencies, cross-border movement, digital currencies, AI and intelligent financial services.

The future of African payments will be more connected, more intelligent and more borderless.

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Let's make Africa easier.

Whether you are expanding into Africa, looking for better payment infrastructure or exploring a strategic partnership, we would like to talk. We are not a stock-standard switch. We wrap ourselves around our large multi-merchant customers, bringing problem-solving people and world-class technology so they can serve their own merchants and customers more effectively.