Blog
What we're building
Product news and notes from the team building Payer in the Maldives.
Company
Payer is licensed by the Maldives Monetary Authority
On 17 March 2022 the MMA issued Payer an electronic money issuance licence under the National Payment System Act, six years after we started asking for one.
17 March 2022
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Payer is a Maldives national finalist at the SAARC Startup Awards
Payer is through as a Maldives national finalist in the season 2020 SAARC Startup Awards, in Best Newcomer and Startup of the Year.
1 October 2020
Product
Food and Grocery is now available on Payer
Order from restaurants and grocery stores, pay from your Payer wallet and follow the order to your door, all in one place.
30 April 2020
Company
Payer in 2020: looking back and forward
What we shipped in 2019, what we learned building payments in the Maldives, and what we want the year ahead to look like.
23 January 2020
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Payer is Startup of the Year at the Maldives Business Awards
We won Startup of the Year at the second Maldives Business Awards, a year after launching in Malé and in the middle of the unglamorous work of integrating a country's bills.
21 December 2019
Company
Payer is in Doha for QITCOM 2019
We were invited to Qatar's biggest technology conference as a visiting startup, to show what we are building and to meet the people who fund and partner with companies like ours.
30 October 2019
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Why we're building Payer
Paying for the ordinary things in life still means queues, counters and opening hours. We want to put all of it in one place, and this is what we have in mind.
1 August 2016
Let's get you started.
Pay bills, recharge and pay in store straight from your phone, with a licensed payment service provider behind every transaction.
Free to download. No monthly fees, no hidden charges.