Subscribe & Follow

Advertise your job vacancies

BizTrendsTV

RAPT BizTrendsTV: 54 Magazine's Phindile Khoza: African culture on the global stage

Jobs

Marketing Manager Johannesburg
Designer Cape Town, Northern Suburbs
Sales & Marketing Co-Ordinator Durban
Customer Service (Pet Food) Work From Home
Walt Disney Consumer Products Licensing Manager Sandton
Luxury Retail Sales Assistant Johannesburg
Luxury Retail Sales Assistant Pretoria
Mid to Senior CAD Designer Johannesburg
Sales Partnership Manager CAPE TOWN
Marketing Manager Cape Town

More jobs Submit a job Open account

Bill Me Later: The 'frictionless' online payment alternative

Given the powerful double-digit growth of e-commerce during the first decade of the industry, few merchants worried that a payment alternative to credit cards or the well-established PayPal was needed. More recently, however, as e-commerce growth rates slow, the fast-growing, credit card-free alternative Bill Me Later has proven that merchants and consumers alike are hungry for alternatives.

30 Apr 2008

Though it has focused mainly on the largest online merchants, Bill Me Later has seen rapid growth. 22% of online buyers used Bill Me Later to make a purchase during the holiday shopping season, according to the Piper Jaffray eCommerce Survey for the fourth quarter of 2007.

Bill Me Later, which allows users to provide limited information and to be billed later for purchases they make online, got a huge profile boost late in 2007 when Amazon announced it would offer the payment alternative and would make an investment in the company.

Read the full article here

Top stories

Checkers Hyper enters a new era with opening of in-store Nespresso Coffee Experience

RetailCheckers Hyper enters a new era with opening of in-store Nespresso Coffee Experience

17 hours

#Orchids&Onions: Metropolitan brings the drama, Subaru bores

Marketing & Media#Orchids&Onions: Metropolitan brings the drama, Subaru bores

Brendan Seery 21 hours

Image source:

EducationFinal call for applications to the Mandela Rhodes Foundation Scholarship SA 2027

15 hours

Why relevance, not reach, is the real driver of email performance

Marketing & MediaWhy relevance, not reach, is the real driver of email performance

Cristelle Snyman, Everlytic 16 hours

Entries open for 2026 Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award

EntrepreneurshipEntries open for 2026 Veuve Clicquot Bold Woman Award

14 hours

Nutella floating around Artemis II. Source: YouTube.

Marketing & MediaWATCH | Nutella goes viral after unexpected appearance on NASA mission

22 hours

More news

Rethinking retail is now crucial for consumers and independent retailers

Retail

Rethinking retail is now crucial for consumers and independent retailers

Ed von Gericke 22 hours

OpenAI’s CMO resigns for health reasons

Marketing & Media

OpenAI’s CMO resigns for health reasons

Karabo Ledwaba 19 hours

Image supplied.

ESG & Sustainability

Sasol and CHIETA boost SA’s green hydrogen ambitions

18 hours

Image source: Drazen Zigic from

HR & Management

5 steps to resetting a struggling team

Anja van Beek 16 hours

Source: © BlueSkyIm -

Legal

Whistleblower overload - part 2: Mitigation through clear policies and redirected claims

Luway Mongie and Graham Damant 17 hours

Netflix produced a documentary on the dating site. Source: Tudum.

Marketing & Media

Ashley Madison sheds “affair site” label in major rebrand

Karabo Ledwaba 20 hours

Image source:

Logistics & Transport

Closure of N3 northbound carriageway at Market Road

19 hours

South Korean Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo speaks to the media in front of a Hyundai Glovis car carrier bound for Tacoma, in the western United States, as he visits an automobile logistics hub at Pyeongtaek port to check export and import operations, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, 3 April, 2026. Reuters/Kim Soo-hyeon

Logistics & Transport

Hyundai Motor flags export disruptions as Middle East conflict hits shipping

Daewoung Kim 21 hours

Exxaro Resources and Eskom Holdings have signed a new long-term coal supply agreement (CSA), ensuring the continued delivery of coal from Exxaro’s Matla Mine to the Matla Power Station until 30 November 2043. Image supplied.

Energy & Mining

Eskom and Exxaro sign 17-year coal supply deal to boost SA's energy security

21 hours

Image credit: on Pexels

Healthcare

World Health Day: South Africa's public health gains at risk

22 hours

Image source: DC Studio from

Legal

Draft AI policy approved for publication for public comment

2 Apr 2026

Image source:

Legal

Deliberately avoiding condition fulfilment is not a 'get out of contract free' card

Nikita Lalla and Ricardo Pillay 2 Apr 2026

Image source: SHVETS production from

HR & Management

5 ways to ready your workplace for Deaf employees

1 Apr 2026

Image source: jcomp from

Education

Adaptability over talent: Why curiosity is a critical skill in the AI era

Semone Peacock 1 Apr 2026

Image source: kstudio from

Legal

Legal Aid SA adjusts means test in line with CPI

1 Apr 2026

Image source: alexskopje –

HR & Management

Employment edges up in Q4 2025

31 Mar 2026

Merilynn Steenkamp from Roche Diagnostics explains how early and accurate diagnostics for preventable illnesses like cervical cancer, HIV, and TB can help protect women’s ability to stay economically active and support broader economic resilience. (Source: )

Healthcare

5 ways women’s health drives economic resilience

1 Apr 2026

Club Med reimagines travel as storytelling with The Ultimate Escape

Lifestyle

Club Med reimagines travel as storytelling with The Ultimate Escape

22 hours

Let's do Biz