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ClearCourse Bought the Software Behind Britain’s Small Businesses - Then Put Payments Inside It
The quiet systems running a marina, a garage or a golf club are hard to replace and easy to overlook. ClearCourse has spent eight years buying those niche operators, joining their workflows to payments, and betting that useful beats fashionable.
Bob Has Been Selling South Africa Everything Since 1999. Now It Wants the Whole Transaction.
The company that began as bidorbuy - a R1, no-reserve auction site - quietly stitched a marketplace, a payment gateway, a courier network and 250 smart lockers into one login. It is chasing unicorn status the unglamorous way: one parcel at a time.
Zbooni
Zbooni is a Dubai-based conversational commerce platform that lets businesses capture orders, send invoices, and accept payments directly inside messaging and social apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Founded in 2016 by Ramy Assaf and Ashraf Atia, the company champions what it calls cCommerce - selling through the chat window customers already use - and provides merchants a mobile business dashboard, payment links, and its own payment gateway across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt.