# 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 Key Events

### 2021
- **Feb 2021**: Stitch emerges from stealth
- **Nov 2021**: Launched payments, starting with Pay by bank

### 2022
- **Apr 2022**: Launched LinkPay, a first-in-the-market one-click Pay by bank solution
- **Jul 2022**: Launched payouts to complete the payments loop
- **Nov 2022**: Launched Manual EFT, extending beyond a single-method solution
- **Feb 2022**: Launched Cash as a payment method for digital services and became one of the first PSPs to offer Capitec Pay

### 2023
- **Mar 2023**: Evolved into an end-to-end payments service provider (PSP), offering card payments, debits and payments orchestration, in addition to existing methods
- **Sep 2023**: Spun off WigWag to learn more about how we can better reach the e-commerce and SME market
- **Oct 2023**: Rebranded, bringing the Stitch identity more into the performance payments space, as we focus on serving large enterprises
- **Nov 2023**: Launched Pay with Crypto, enabling direct payments from popular crypto wallets

### 2024
- **Jun 2024**: Launched 24/7, 365 payouts — a first in the SA market
- **Jul 2024**: 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
- **Nov 2024**: Launched the Stitch float facility for payouts clients

### 2025
- **Feb 2025**: Brought WigWag back into the Stitch ecosystem with the launch of Stitch Express
- **Jan 2025**: Moved into the in-person payments space with the acquisition of ExiPay

## What’s next?