Cross-border business payments · South Africa launch
Cross-border business payments, routed and settled on schedule.
Ten currencies, seven rails at exit, and reconciliation you can set your watch by.
Phase 1 in build.
- 7
- rails at exit — Phase 1 target
- 10
- currencies
- 6
- SADC corridors + SWIFT
- 08:00
- SAST · T+1 reconciliation — Phase 1 target
Every rail. One integration.
7 rails at exit — Phase 1 target
Each rail has its own window, ceiling and use case — all of them behind one integration.
Pay-out
PayShap
Real-time push, up to R5,000,000.
RTGS — Real-Time Gross Settlement
Above R5,000,000, settled in real time.
EFT — Electronic Funds Transfer
Overnight batch at the lowest cost, T+1.
TCIB — Transactions Cleared on an Immediate Basis
ZAR into six SADC corridors, no FX at the border.
SWIFT outbound
USD, EUR and GBP via the correspondent network.
< R5,000,000 · real time RTGS
> R5,000,000 · real-time gross
Or EFT batch — lowest cost, any value, T+1.
Pay-in
PayShap Request-to-Pay
Payer authorises in their own bank; real-time on confirmation.
SWIFT inbound
USD, EUR and GBP to per-customer virtual accounts.
Routed on amount, currency, destination and priority — and rerouted automatically around a degraded rail. How routing works →
Ten currencies. One FX engine.
Quote, lock, execute — positions netted and hedged at bank treasury level daily.
- ZAR
- USD
- EUR
- GBP
- NGN
- KES
- GHS
- EGP
- MAD
- XOF
- Quote
- Lockheld 30s
- Execute
- Pricing
- Mid-market plus your configured margin
- Commitment
- Quoted before you confirm. Lapses after 30s, then a fresh rate applies.
Zambia · Zimbabwe · Namibia · Eswatini · Lesotho · Botswana
6 SADC corridors. ZAR settles, no FX at the border.
USD · EUR · GBP
The correspondent network.
Coverage beyond these corridors and currencies is roadmap.
Built for operators who move serious money
Four kinds of operator, one platform underneath.
Corporates
Predictable settlement and one reconciliation feed for treasury at volume.
Predictable settlement windows · Single reconciliation feed
Enterprises
Rail breadth as resilience — a degraded rail is a routing decision, not an outage.
99.95% per-rail availability — target · Automatic failover
Commodity businesses
Locked FX across ten currencies, executed on the margin.
Locked FX rates · 30-second quote window · Ten currencies
PSPs
A wide, documented rail layer to embed once and depend on.
Rail breadth · API reliability · OpenAPI 3.1 spec
Moving serious money across borders?
A conversation, not a sign-up flow. Orchura's team scopes each integration directly.
Developer documentation and sandbox access at docs.orchura.com