# Celebrating 4 Years of Growth at Stitch

Stitch continues to build out our offering to meet more needs for our clients. As we move into 2025, we're exploring solutions beyond payments, and diving deeper into the financial services and finance management space.

## Timeline of Milestones

### 2021
- **February**: Stitch emerges from stealth  
- **November**: Launched payments, starting with Pay by Bank  
- **April**: Launched LinkPay, a first-in-the-market one-click Pay by bank solution  
- **July**: Launched payouts to complete the payments loop  
- **November**: Launched Manual EFT, extending beyond a single-method solution

### 2022
- **February**: Launched Cash as a payment method for digital services and became one of the first PSPs to offer Capitec Pay  
- **March**: Evolved into an end-to-end payments service provider (PSP), offering card payments, debits, and payments orchestration, in addition to existing methods  
- **September**: Spun off WigWag to learn more about how we can better reach the e-commerce and SME market  
- **October**: Rebranded, bringing the Stitch identity more into the performance payments space, as we focus on serving large enterprises  
- **November**: Launched Pay with Crypto, enabling direct payments from popular crypto wallets

### 2023
- **June**: Launched 24/7, 365 payouts — a first in the SA market  
- **July**: Launched digital wallets, offering all 3 popular wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay) through one integration, as well as Absa Pay and Nedbank Direct EFT  
- **November**: Launched the Stitch float facility for payouts clients

### 2024
- **February**: Brought WigWag back into the Stitch ecosystem with the launch of Stitch Express  
- **January**: Moved into the in-person payments space with the acquisition of ExiPay

### 2025
- **January**: Moving into the in-person payments space with the acquisition of ExiPay  
- **February**: Brought WigWag back into the Stitch ecosystem with the launch of Stitch Express

## What’s Next?

Stitch continues to build out our offering to meet more needs for our clients. As we move into 2025, we're exploring solutions beyond payments and diving deeper into the financial services and finance management space.