Definitive guide to Payment Gateways

If you’re looking to start an online store, or you want to accept payment for services and subscriptions more easily, it’s likely you’re going to be in the market for a payment gateway. But what is a payment gateway, what do they do, and how hard are they to set up? Learn everything you need to know about payment gateways, …

New Zealand’s Four Largest Banks Partner with POLi on Open Banking

POLi has this week signed open banking agreements with BNZ and ANZ, following similar partnerships with ASB and Westpac announced earlier in the year. Making it a quartet, POLi delivers seamless, low-cost transacting at scale. Securing open banking access with New Zealand’s four largest banks is a massive milestone for POLi.  And it’s a huge win for our merchants and …

Westpac and POLi Partner to Deliver Secure Open Banking Payments to Thousands of Kiwi Merchants and Customers

Westpac NZ has announced a strategic agreement with online payment provider POLi to bring secure open banking payments to life for thousands of New Zealand consumers and businesses. The agreement marks a major milestone in Westpac’s open banking journey, enabling POLi’s over 2,000 merchants to immediately access Westpac’s open banking capabilities through POLi’s existing platform. This relationship brings instant scale …

Open Banking Set for Take-off on 1 December

Minister Simpson’s announcement on 1st May of the decision to regulate open banking is momentous for payment initiation services like POLi.  From 1 December, ASB, Westpac, ANZ and BNZ will be required to connect MBIE accredited service providers to their open banking APIs.  The Minister’s announcement coincided with the news that POLi and ASB are partnering to enable open banking …

ASB and POLi partner to support secure open banking payments in New Zealand

In an industry first, ASB has today announced it is partnering with POLi, one of New Zealand’s largest online payments providers, to support customers to make secure open banking based digital payments. With POLi using ASB’s open banking APIs, customers are able to use POLi as a payment method without sharing their username and password. Customer authentication and payment authorisation …

What is online EFTPOS?

Online EFTPOS is a payment option appearing across more and more stores and services around New Zealand, including retailers, councils and hospitality venues. But what is online EFTPOS, how does it work, and should your organisation adopt it as an alternative online payment offering? How does online EFTPOS work? Online EFTPOS is similar in some ways to POLi, in that …

7-day payment processing comes to NZ: What this means for you

7-day payment processing has come to New Zealand. But will this mean you need to adjust any internal processes? Let’s take a look. 365 days of payments from May 26 All of us have at some point tried to send or receive money through a direct bank transfer or automatic payment, only for it to stay in limbo over the …

Supercharge your online store as a pharmacy or vet – here’s how

If you’re a pharmacy or veterinary practice and you’ve always wanted to run an online store, we’re going to talk today about how it might be a lot easier than you think… We’re excited to announce that POLi has recently teamed up with the fantastic Kiwi online shop builder Storbie, which specialises in building e-commerce ready stores for pharmacy and …

Upgrade your Xero e-invoices with POLi

It’s time your invoices were paid quicker! We’ve seriously upgraded the POLi Xero add-on, in partnership with Stripe, to bring you fast, instant POLi payments within your regular e-invoices – in combination with Stripe-based credit card payments. Hasn’t POLi had a Xero add-on for a while? What’s different? Previously, the POLi Xero add-on enabled e-invoice users to integrate Xero with …

POLi teams up with Young Enterprise Scheme 2022

Every year, budding young Kiwi entrepreneurs are given the opportunity to experience the real business world first-hand by competing in the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme. This year, we’re proud to say that POLi has joined in the journey, supporting the Young Enterprise Trust by offering a special deal for its students. What is the Young Enterprise Scheme? The Lion …