HitPay is a one-stop solution for SMEs – TechCrunch

HitPay has nearly all the pieces SMEs have to run their companies.

Along with being a web-based fee gateway, it additionally provides instruments like point-of-sale software program with card readers, plugins, fee hyperlinks and no-code on-line shops.

The Y Combinator alum introduced right this moment that it has raised $15.75 million in Collection A funding led by Tiger International, with participation from returning buyers International Founders Capital and HOF Capital. It’s presently utilized by over 10,000 retailers in Singapore and Malaysia, with plans to develop into extra Southeast Asian markets, together with Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Co-founder and CEO Aditya Haripurkar informed TechCrunch HitPay began in 2016 as an e-wallet, however then pivoted towards being a SME-facing platform in 2018 as a digital POS product. As its workforce started to grasp the wants of SMEs extra, it began to develop the opposite instruments on the platform.

HitPay’s Collection A funding will probably be used for constructing a funds infrastructure from the bottom up, with the intention of saving SMEs cash and serving to them develop their enterprise. This can embody enterprise instruments and funds infrastructure that features all generally used fee rails in every market, together with financial institution transfers, playing cards, e-wallets and BNPL companies.

“SMEs have very particular necessities, so we wished to construct a one-stop no code platform,” mentioned Haripurkar. “That entails all our plugins, level of sale software program, enterprise software program, on-line shops and recurring funds. We’ll be specializing in constructing these free SaaS instruments along with build up fee rails, that are centered presently on Singaporean and Malaysian retailers. However in every nation we launch in, that may look very completely different, so we are going to take a look at native fee strategies in each nation. That’s the largest problem for our workforce and the place most of our funding and time goes as properly.”

Step one HitPay will take because it expands into new nations is to get regulated in every promote it operates in, to permit it to construct fee infrastructure for SMEs from the bottom up. Then it can combine the preferred fee strategies. For instance, in Singapore, HitPay presently works with about 10 to fifteen fee strategies.

HitPay’s no-code platform permits SMEs to unify their on-line and offline fee stacks. It’s usually utilized by medium-sized companies, with annual income between $500,000 to $2 million. Most are within the retail section, however Haripurkar count on that to evolve as properly.