Launch your WhatsApp business in 10 minutesGet paid in the chat.
Aweh turns the WhatsApp number you already give out into a working till. Your customers and clients browse what you offer, order or book, and pay — by card or Instant EFT — without ever leaving the chat. No app to build. No website to maintain. Nothing to install.
A law firm in Sandton and a bakery in Mitchells Plain close the sale in the same place: a WhatsApp chat.
Aweh is where that chat gets paid.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Built for any South African business whose customers already message them — law firms, dental practices, guesthouses, panel beaters, boutiques, salons, plumbers and kota shops.
Sell your own stuff
Put your menu, catalogue or price list right in the chat. Customers tap to order or book — no third-party store, no marketplace fee, just what you sell.
Get paid in the chat
A secure pay link by Instant EFT, powered by Ozow. Fully encrypted. You never touch card data.
Live order board
Paid orders light up on your board the moment the money lands. Tap to move them New → Preparing → Ready → Done.
Your own WhatsApp number
Customers chat with you, on your number. Aweh runs invisibly behind it — better trust, better deliverability.
No app. No project.
No developer, no integration, no six-week build. Your customers use the WhatsApp they already have every day — zero downloads, zero friction.
No monthly fee
Free to sign up. We only earn a small percentage when you actually get paid. No setup, no lock-in.
Up and running in minutes.
Three steps. No coding, no API keys, no consultant.
Connect your WhatsApp
Link your WhatsApp Business number to Aweh in under two minutes.
Add your menu or price list
List your products, services or appointment types with prices. One screen, done.
Get paid
Customer orders, taps pay, money lands. You get a ping; the order hits your board.
A hundred orders a day works the same way as three.
The dentist confirming Tuesday's appointment and the kota shop taking a lunch order are running the same play: the whole conversation happens on WhatsApp, and then it breaks. Banking details typed into a chat. A proof-of-payment screenshot. Someone reconciling by hand at nine at night. Aweh closes the loop where it opened — on the number you already give out, in about ten minutes, with nothing to install.
Practices and firms
Attorneys, accountants, consultants, brokers, architects. Take a deposit before the work starts, settle the balance in the same thread the brief arrived in.
Bookings and appointments
Dentists, physios, vets, gyms, studios, courts, tutors. Confirm the slot and take payment in one message — and cut the no-shows that cost you the hour anyway.
Quotes and call-outs
Plumbers, electricians, builders, panel beaters, detailers. Quote from a photo, get it accepted, get it paid, without the WhatsApp-to-EFT-to-screenshot round trip.
Regulars and account customers
Wholesale reps, standing orders, guesthouses, box schemes, meal plans. Repeat orders, split payments and customer history you can search and export.
Already have a website and a payment gateway? Keep them. Aweh isn't a replacement for your website — it's a till for the conversation your website doesn't own. Most enquiries never reach a website. They arrive as a message.
Don't start from scratch. Start from a shop.
Twenty-seven ready-made setups built for how South Africa actually trades — physio appointments to legal consultations to plumbing call-outs to guesthouse bookings to kota orders. Pick one, swap in your prices, start taking payment in minutes. Or start blank and build your own.
- Greetings in 4 South African vibes
- Menu, prices & order flow pre-loaded
- One tap and you're trading
Your back office. Live.
Every paid order pops onto your board the second Ozow confirms it. Track today's revenue, orders and customers at a glance — no spreadsheets, no chasing EFT proof.
What WhatsApp can't do on its own.
WhatsApp is the road. Aweh is the car.
- You add up every order by hand
- You chase "proof of payment" screenshots
- Orders get lost in the chat in a rush
- Nothing your bookkeeper can reconcile
- The bot builds the cart and the pay-link
- Payment confirmed automatically — no screenshots
- A live board keeps every order in its place
- Searchable history and exports, built in
This isn't a bet on where business is going. It's already there.
WhatsApp adoption among South Africa's largest brands surveyed rose from 45% to 57% in a single year — the only major social platform that grew.
Ornico, with World Wide Worx and Ask Afrika — South African Social Media Landscape Report 2026 (July 2026). Sample: 100+ of South Africa's largest brands.
Of South African retailers who sell on WhatsApp, 90.3% still take payment by sending an invoice with EFT instructions. Only 16.7% use a payment link.
World Wide Worx — Online Retail in South Africa 2025, with Mastercard, Peach Payments and Ask Afrika (Sept 2025). Sub-sample of 201 retail decision-makers.
WhatsApp is South Africa's largest platform, reaching 31 million monthly users — ahead of Facebook at 25 million and TikTok at 18 million.
Marketing Research Foundation, MAPS, 2025 data. ~20,000 face-to-face interviews a year, adults 15+, all nine provinces.
The same research is honest about the catch: South African consumers are still uneasy about paying through a link in a chat, and they say what would change that — a verified merchant, a licensed payment gateway, and confirmation they can trust. That is exactly what Aweh is. Payments run through Ozow, a licensed South African payment provider — not through the chat. Nobody types banking details into a message. That is the point.
Payments secured by Ozow · Built on the official WhatsApp Business API · Aweh Commerce (Pty) Ltd, Reg 2026/503487/07 · Made in South Africa 🇿🇦
The shop shown on this page is Aweh's own demo shop. We don't publish customer testimonials we haven't earned yet.
Free to start. You only pay when you get paid.
No setup fees. No monthly minimums. No lock-in.
We take a small percentage of each payment — that's it.
- No setup or monthly fees, ever
- Get paid by card or Instant EFT
- Founding merchants lock in founder rates for life
Ozow's standard transaction fees apply. No credit card needed to sign up.
Quick answers.
Your business deserves a till that works as hard as you do.
Set it up yourself in minutes. Free to start.
Questions? Email us at support@getaweh.co.za
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