Your customer gets a pay link, polite reminders every 48 hours and a receipt. You skip the awkward follow-ups.
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Invoice R350 for Thandi +27825550143 braids
Invoice K7Q2XM created: ZAR 350.00 for Thandi (+27825550143).
I've sent it to your customer. Payment link: …/pay/q8ZtN4wR
Paid
Payment received: ZAR 350.00 from Thandi for invoice K7Q2XM. Receipt sent to Thandi.
The braids are done, the cake was eaten, the phone screen is fixed. And you're still typing these:
Hi Lerato, sorry to bother you again 🙏 just checking on the R480 for Saturday's nails?
Morning! Did you manage to send for the cake?
Hey, your phone has been ready since last week. When can you pay so I can release it?
R1,400
Four unpaid R350 braiding jobs in a month. Work you've already done and haven't been paid for.
12
messages to chase them, if each one takes three nudges.
0
of those you'd type yourself with reminders on.
Example numbers to show the maths, not customer data.
Amount, name, number and what it's for, in one WhatsApp message. Add “due friday” if you like. No app, no form.
Invoice R350 for Thandi +27825550143 braids
Your customer gets the invoice on WhatsApp with your business name and a secure link that opens Paystack checkout.
Hello, Nomsa's Braids sent you an invoice for ZAR 350.00 (braids). Pay securely here:
Pay ZAR 350.00The link never expires. A fresh checkout opens each time it's tapped.
From the due date, a polite reminder goes out every 48 hours. When they pay, reminders stop, they get a receipt and you are told.
Invoice sent
day 0
Due date: reminder 1
day 7
Reminder 2
day 9
Paid via Paystack
day 10
Receipt sent to Thandi
day 10
Text list to see who owes you. paid K7Q2XM when someone pays cash. cancel K7Q2XM when plans change.
list
Unpaid invoices:
paid P3WD9A
Invoice P3WD9A marked as paid. 🎉
Every 48 hours from the due date, five at most. Nobody gets nagged after they've paid.
Paid after reminder 2. The other three never send.
Customers pay on Paystack. The money settles to your own bank or mobile money account in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya or South Africa, and we take no cut.
Bank account
Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya
Mobile money
Ghana and Kenya
The moment a payment lands, your customer gets a thank-you receipt from your business. Paid in cash? Text paid and the code.
Thank you! Nomsa's Braids received your payment of ZAR 350.00 for braids.
Everything you send from WhatsApp shows up here too. Open it in any browser to check who's late or create an invoice by hand.
For trying it on your next few orders.
Free
For a busy chair, kitchen or counter.
$9/ month
or $90 a year
Prices are in US dollars, billed monthly or yearly through Dodo Payments, and you can cancel any time. Paystack's own processing fee on each customer payment comes out of what you receive; we take no cut of your invoices.
Payments happen on Paystack's own secure checkout. Card details go straight to them and never pass through our servers or your chat.
A few minutes. Sign up, confirm your email, add the bank or mobile money account you want to be paid into, then send your first invoice from your WhatsApp number. There's nothing to install.
No. You keep your own WhatsApp. You message our business number to create invoices, and every message your customer gets carries your business name.
Text “paid” and the invoice code, for example “paid K7Q2XM”. The invoice is marked paid, reminders stop, and it counts in your dashboard.
Sends are retried and every attempt is logged. Failed messages show on the invoice's timeline and you can resend with one tap.
They start on the due date, go out at most every 48 hours, stop after five, and stop straight away when the invoice is paid or cancelled.
Yes. There's no contract. Starter is free, Shop is billed monthly or yearly, and you can cancel any time from the billing page.
Free to start. Your first pay link is one message away.