StreetPay Working for yourself?

Your team can get tipped again.

Nobody carries cash any more, and your staff feel it every shift. StreetPay gives each worker a printed card with a QR code on it. A customer scans it and pays that worker straight from their own banking app, by PayShap, in seconds. No card machine, and nothing for you to install.

Cash is disappearing. Your staff's income went with it.

Petrol attendants, car guards and car wash staff rely on tips. Most customers now carry nothing. They want to tip and they cannot. That money is simply lost, every shift, every day.

Three steps. Ten minutes per worker.

1

We set them up

We come to your site. Each worker needs a South African bank account with PayShap switched on, which most people already have. If somebody does not have an account, we help them open one. It takes about ten minutes at a supermarket kiosk with an ID.

2

They wear a card

Each worker gets a printed lanyard card with their name, their role, where they work and a QR code. A photograph can be added later.

3

Customers pay them directly

A customer scans the card and pays from their own banking app. The money lands in that worker's own bank account within seconds. Not at the end of the month, not after a fee comes off. All of it, immediately.

See it working

This is a real card for a demonstration worker. Scan it off this screen with your phone camera, or open the page directly. Sipho is not a real person, so nothing is taken.

A StreetPay lanyard card showing a photo, a name, a role and a QR code

What a customer sees after scanning:

  • Who they are, where they work, and a badge confirming StreetPay issued the card.
  • A few sentences from the worker, in their own words.
  • The payment number, large, with a copy button.
  • Three steps, in English, isiZulu, Sesotho or Afrikaans.
Open the demonstration page

Why sites sign up

Simple pricing

Per worker per monthR50
Monthly minimumR750
Per card, once offR80
Month to month. Thirty days notice. No contract lock in.

The R80 setup covers printing and the onboarding visit.

How the money works

StreetPay never receives, holds or forwards a cent of your staff's money. The payment goes from the customer's bank to the worker's bank directly, by PayShap. We are not in the middle of it and we could not take a cut even if we wanted to. We provide the card, the page behind it and the setup, and you pay us the monthly fee. That is the whole arrangement.

It matters more than it sounds. Every other version of this takes a percentage out of a tip that was small to begin with, and pays it over the next day. Your staff keep all of it, and they keep it now.

We are new, and picking our first sites by hand

StreetPay started in Johannesburg in 2026. We have no wall of logos to show you and we are not going to invent one. We are taking on a small number of sites to begin with, so that we can set every worker up in person and be there when something goes wrong. If that suits you, get in touch. If you would rather wait until we are bigger, that is fair too.

Working for yourself?

Most of this page is written for a business signing up its staff. If nobody employs you, if you guard cars on a street or sell at a corner, you can sign up on your own. Same card, same page, same money straight to your phone.

On your own, per monthR50
Your printed card, once offR80
Stop whenever you want. Nothing is taken off what customers send you.

Questions we get asked

What happens when a worker leaves?

Tell us and we take them off your account that day. You stop being billed for them at the end of that month. Their card stops working, so a card left in a drawer cannot be used by somebody else.

What if a card is lost or damaged?

We generate a new code, which kills the old card and tag immediately, and print a replacement. Their profile, their history and anything owed to them are all kept.

Is my staff's money safe?

It never comes near us. A customer pays that worker's own cellphone number directly from their banking app, bank to bank, and it lands in the worker's own account in seconds. StreetPay does not receive it, hold it or forward it, and takes nothing off it.

Do I have to do anything?

Almost nothing. We come to your site, set each worker up, and hand over the cards. After that the only thing that reaches you is one invoice a month.

What if a worker does not want to?

Then they do not. It is explained to them in their own language before anything is set up, and nobody is signed up who has not agreed. Any worker can ask to come off at any time and their details are removed the same day.

How do I stop?

Thirty days notice, by phone or in writing. There is no fixed term and no cancellation penalty. See the terms.

Does the customer need an app?

No. They use the banking app already on their phone. There is nothing to download, and they do not create an account with us.

Let's get your site set up