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Wix Payment Integration as Revenue Booster for Online Businesses

As online transactions increase year-on-year, the need for businesses to retain customers, reduce cart abandonment and grow their revenue becomes paramount.
One solution for businesses looking to leverage payment to attract and retain customers is payment integration on Wix, a robust platform with a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline online transactions and enhance the way businesses handle online payments.
The digital economy thrives on the ability to conduct transactions swiftly and securely. Hence, the ability to process payment seamlessly has become a necessity for every business that aims to provide excellent experience for its customer base. Any hiccup in the purchase process can lead to abandoned carts, lost revenue and diminished customer trust. Seamless payment processing ensures that customers can complete their purchases effortlessly, boosting satisfaction and loyalty.
Overview of Payment Gateway Integration for Wix Stores
Wix integration delivers a feature-rich platform that caters to businesses of all sizes. It provides an array of functionalities designed to enhance the payment experience:
- User-Friendly Interface: Intuitive design makes it easy for businesses to set up and manage their online payments.
- Secure Transactions: Advanced security measures protect both businesses and customers from fraudulent activities.
- Instant Payouts: Fast access to funds can significantly improve a business’s cash flow, allowing for better financial planning and stability.
- Multiple Payment Options: Support for various payment methods, including credit/debit cards, mobile money and other local payment systems.
- Multi-Currency Support: This feature is crucial for businesses with a global customer base, allowing customers to pay in their preferred currency.
- Global Reach: Ability to accept payments from customers worldwide, broadening the potential market for businesses.
- Real-Time Analytics: Comprehensive reporting tools to track sales, monitor performance, and make data-driven decisions.
How Integrating a Payment Gateway Addresses Common Pain Points for Wix Store Owners
Integrating a robust payment gateway, such as SeerBit into Wix effectively addresses several common pain points associated with online transactions. Some of these are:
Limited Payment Options:
Your online store most likely has a diverse range of customers and each person has their preferred payment method. Failure to provide their preferred option may lead to lost sales and cart abandonment. Over some time, this may lead to cash flow issues as revenues are affected. However, a payment gateway allows you to offer multiple payment options on your checkout page, reducing the possibility of lost sales and cart abandonment, and improving customer satisfaction, while allowing you to cater to and retain a broader customer base and potentially boosting your sales revenue.
Poor Checkout Experience:
A poor or complicated checkout experience is one of the major reasons why shoppers abandon their carts. People tend to exit the checkout page if payment is not seamless and straightforward. However, this is a problem you can’t handle on your own as a store owner. That is why you need a payment gateway integration. A payment gateway helps to optimize the checkout page, ensuring the experience is seamless for shoppers. By removing friction with features, such as one-click payments, customers can complete more of their purchases. This improves the customer experience with your business, leading to increased customer retention and sales, and fewer cart abandonments.
Payment Security:
Statistics show that 18% of shoppers do not complete their purchase because they don’t think their payment information is safe with the -ecommerce retailer. Security is clearly a major concern for both store owners and customers. Many shoppers don’t complete purchases due to fear of fraud and data breaches. The best way to win their trust and ensure their payment details are protected is by integrating a payment gateway into your store. Payment gateways come with robust security features, such as PCI DSS compliance, SSL encryption, and other fraud prevention and detection tools, which keep customer data safe and build trust and confidence in your store.
International Payments:
It can be challenging for online stores to deal with international transactions, especially having to deal with issues, like currency conversion, regulatory compliance and international fees. However, by integrating a payment gateway, you get support for multi-currency transactions, without dealing with avoidable issues. This capability allows you to expand your business to a global market, increasing your client base and driving revenue growth.
Benefits of Integrating SeerBit Payment for Your Wix E-Commerce Store
The SeerBit payment gateway provides businesses of all sizes and across any industry with frictionless payment processing. For e-commerce businesses on Wix, this fast and seamless payment processing can lead to increased customer retention, revenue growth and reduced cart abandonment.
Here are specific ways SeerBit is beneficial to you as a Wix store owner:
Streamlined Payment Processing
Seerbit’s automated payment processing system helps to save time and minimizes errors due to manual intervention. Transactions are processed quickly and efficiently, ensuring your customers remain happy while improving cash flow for your business.
Cost efficiency
Seerbit’s competitive transaction fees reduce the overall cost of payment processing for your business, helping you save costs and ensuring you maximize your business profits.
Scalability and flexibility
We help your business grow and expand into multiple countries across Africa by helping you receive payments in multiple currencies. This leads to an increase in transaction volumes as your business scales, but we also scale with you, handling the higher transaction volume appropriately, while ensuring that payment performance is not compromised. Our intelligent routing system ensures each transaction goes through the best-performing processing route for higher success rates.
Analytics & Seamless Reconciliations
SeerBit allows you to view your payment analytics and reports across your channels on the dashboard. You get detailed reports that help you track sales, identify trends, and monitor sales performance. This insight allows you to make data-driven decisions about your marketing strategies, inventory management, and customer engagement.
In addition to addressing the common pain points that Wix store owners face, these are some of the benefits you’ll get by adding SeerBit as the payment gateway on your Wix store. You can open a SeerBit account here.
How to Integrate SeerBit Payment to Your Wix Store
Here is a short walk-through video to guide you through the process of adding SeerBit as a payment gateway on your Wix store.
Alternatively, you can follow the steps below:
- Log into your website on your Wix account.
- On your dashboard, you will see a menu list on the left. Click on “Getting Paid” and from the drop-down list, click on “Connect & Setup”.
- Click on the “Connect Payment Method” tab in the centre of your screen
- Choose SeerBit from the list of payment gateways.
- Connect SeerBit to your Wix store by following the on-screen instructions. This includes typing your public key and secret key and clicking on “Connect” at the bottom of the screen. You can retrieve your public and secret keys from your SeerBit account dashboard under the Account Settings menu.
- After connecting, configure your preferred payment settings, such as payment methods, accepted currencies, shipping options, etc.
- Test your integration to ensure everything is working perfectly before launching the payment gateway on your website.
Conclusion
Explore the power of payment gateway integration for your online store on Wix to improve payment processing and operational efficiency, while driving revenue growth for your business.
Telecom
Airtel Africa Grew Customer Base to 169m as Q1 Revenue Hits $1.4 Billion

Airtel Africa has grown its customer base by 9.0% to 169.4 million, with data customers increasing 17.4% to 75.6 million with focus on bridging the digital divide across her markets continues. According to the telecommunications operator’s financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2025, which demonstrated strong growth across key metrics and a continued focus on expanding its services across its 14 African markets.
The operator reported a significant increase in revenue, reaching $1,415 million. This represents a 24.9% growth in constant currency and a 22.4% increase in reported currency, indicating a more stable macroeconomic environment in its operating regions and effective tariff adjustments, particularly in Nigeria.
The growth was broadly driven, with mobile services revenue increasing by 23.8% in constant currency. Data revenue showed exceptional performance, surging by 38.1%, while voice revenue grew by 13.9%. Mobile money services continued their strong upward trajectory, recording a 30.3% growth in constant currency. This was supported by accelerated growth in Francophone Africa (16.4% in constant currency) and continued strong performance in East Africa (20.3% in constant currency).
Airtel Africa’s profitability also saw a substantial uplift. EBITDA grew by 29.8% in reported currency to $679 million, with EBITDA margins expanding to 48.0% from 45.3% in the prior period. This margin expansion is attributed to sustained operating momentum, more stable fuel prices, and the ongoing benefits from cost efficiency programs.
Profit after tax saw a remarkable improvement, rising to $156 million compared to $31 million in the prior period. Basic Earnings Per Share (EPS) stood at 3.4 cents, a significant increase from 0.2 cents in the previous year, primarily reflecting higher operating profit in the current period and the absence of large derivative and foreign exchange losses that impacted the prior period.
Operational highlights further underscored the company’s growth. Airtel Africa’s total customer base expanded by 9.0% to 169.4 million. Data customers increased by 17.4% to 75.6 million, as the company intensified its efforts to bridge the digital divide. Mobile money customer base also grew by 16.1% to 45.8 million, with transaction value increasing by 28.7% in constant currency.
The company’s strategic focus on enhancing customer experience is supported by ongoing network investments. Over 2,300 new sites were rolled out, bringing the total to 37,579 sites, and the fiber network was expanded by 2,700 km, now exceeding 79,600 km. This investment has boosted data capacity across the region, with 4G population coverage reaching 74.7%, an increase of 3.4% year-on-year.
Airtel Africa continued its debt localization program, with almost 95% of its operating company debt (excluding lease liabilities) now in local currency, up from 86% a year ago, reducing foreign currency debt exposure. The company also confirmed it has returned $16.9 million to shareholders through its ongoing share buyback program as of June 30, 2025.
Sunil Taldar, chief executive officer, said: “We are very pleased with the strong growth in our operating and financial performance in the first quarter. The strength of this performance, and the scale of the growth we achieved, reflects the sustained demand for our services and the strength of our business model to meet these demands. Operationally, the acceleration in customer base growth to 9%, and 17.4% growth in our data customers to 75.6m reflects the strong on-ground execution with a relentless focus on digitisation and the simplification of the customer experience.”
Telecom
Khalil Halilu Honoured at UK Parliament for Championing African Innovation

Mr. Khalil Suleiman Halilu, executive vice chairman/ceo of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), was honoured with the prestigious African Achievers Award at the 15th edition of the ceremony held at the historic House of Lords, UK Parliament, on July 11, 2025.

L-R: Founder, Startup Arewa, Mohammed Jega; Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy Mete Coban; Executive Vice Chairman/CEO, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), Khalil Suleiman Halilu; and Special Adviser to the EVC on Commercialization, Engr. Anas Balarabe during the presentation of the prestigious African Achievers Award to Halilu at the House of Lords, UK Parliament recently.
The award, presented during an event that brought together royals, global leaders, policymakers, and innovators, recognized Mr. Halilu’s outstanding contributions to advancing Africa’s technological infrastructure, innovation ecosystems, and industrial growth through his leadership at NASENI.
Hosted by Baroness Sandip Verma, Chancellor of the University of Roehampton and a respected member of the House of Lords, the ceremony was a powerful global showcase of African excellence and transformative leadership. Mr. Halilu joined a distinguished group of honourees including public officials, business executives, and philanthropists shaping the future of the continent.
In his remarks, Mr. Halilu emphasized Africa’s readiness to lead in innovation, manufacturing, and sustainability.
“It is a great honour to receive this award alongside fellow visionaries committed to Africa’s future. At NASENI, we are bridging the gap between ambition and access, turning ideas into industries, empowering indigenous solutions, and driving forward Nigeria’s and Africa’s industrial transformation. Africa is not just rising, it is ready.”
Under his leadership, NASENI has been repositioned as Nigeria’s leading technology transfer agency, delivering on the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu by enabling local production in critical sectors such as clean energy, agriculture, transportation, and digital infrastructure.
Through strategic partnerships and an Accelerated Technology Transfer & Adaptation Strategy, NASENI is turning Nigeria into a hub for sustainable innovation and industrial self-reliance. Mr. Halilu extended appreciation to the organizers and supporters of the Awards:
“I thank the African Achievers Awards team, Baroness Sandip Verma, and all those across the continent and diaspora who continue to champion African solutions. This recognition is a motivation to do more and a reminder that the future we seek is one we must build ourselves.”
Now in its 15th year, the African Achievers Awards has become one of the most respected platforms spotlighting African leadership and excellence globally. This year’s edition included powerful messages from dignitaries such as King Misuzulu kaZwelithini, Queen Olori Atuwatse III, and Dr. Fatou Bensouda, reinforcing the urgency of building a united and future-facing African continent.
The award to Mr. Khalil Halilu reflects NASENI’s growing continental footprint and its mission to deliver homegrown technologies that respond to Africa’s real challenges, promote sustainable development, and accelerate industrialization across borders.
Telecom
NITRA-ALTON CNII & Sustainability Conference Rescheduled for August 7 in Lagos

The 2025 edition of the Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII) & Sustainability Conference has been rescheduled to hold on August 7, 2025, at CitiHeight Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos, following a shift from its earlier date of July 30.
The adjustment was made to accommodate a nationwide telecom stakeholders’ meeting convened by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
The CNII Conference, jointly organised by the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) and Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), seeks to address the implementation and awareness gaps surrounding the CNII Order, signed into law by the Federal Government in August 2024.
The law designates telecom infrastructure as Critical National Information Infrastructure, positioning it as a strategic asset vital to Nigeria’s economic and security framework. Industry groups including the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) have thrown their weight behind the initiative.
Speaking on the new date, NITRA Chairman, Mr. Chike Onwuegbuchi, emphasised that the Act, though laudable, requires industry-wide collaboration and clear implementation strategy for tangible impact.
“The mere proclamation of CNII as an Act does not guarantee infrastructure safety. Stakeholders must address operational and standardisation gaps to make the law work,” he said.
ALTON Chairman, Engr. Gbenga Adebayo, also highlighted the need for regular maintenance and technology upgrades to curb vandalism and ensure infrastructure security.
Focus Areas of the Conference Include:
- Implementation mechanisms for the CNII Act.
- Stakeholders’ roles at federal, state, and industry levels.
- Security enforcement and public education.
- Infrastructure protection and sustainability.
- Collaboration and compliance across telecom companies.
Expected attendees include the Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, regulators, service providers, security agencies, and key players in public and private sectors.
The event is themed “Industry Sustainability And CNII Conference 2025 – Way Forward”, with panel discussions aimed at creating a unified approach to safeguarding Nigeria’s telecom infrastructure under the CNII provisions.
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