Sign up with Yoco: Submit key information like your name, email address, mobile number, trading address.

Complete your Yoco profile: Verify a few more details about you and your business in the Yoco App (mobile or web). If your business is structured in a particular way, you may need to submit additional documents too. Once that’s done, we can start paying you out.

Go to yoco.com.

Select Get started in the top right corner of the page.
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A pop-up will appear asking what you’d like to do. Select Help me choose to find the best Yoco setup for your business.
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💡 Good to know: If you’ve already decided on your products, you can select Buy hardware to go straight to the Yoco shop, or Activate your device if you’ve already purchased a card machine and just need to sign up for a Yoco profile.
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Select In person or In person & online for how your business sells.
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Select the description that best describes where your customers usually pay:
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Choose Yes if you need to print receipts or order slips, and No if you don't.
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Choose Yes if you'll have multiple staff members taking payment at once, and No if you won't.
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Based on your answers, Yoco will recommend the products best suited to your business. If you chose In person at the beginning of the process, the products will only include devices. If you chose In person & online, the products will include devices and online products.

Select Add to cart to add the recommended devices to your cart.
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​In-person recomendation
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​In-person & online recommendation
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Select View Cart to review your devices and add a promo code (if applicable), or choose Secure Signup & Checkout to enter your delivery address – you can also add a promo code if you choose this option.
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If you chose Secure Signup & Checkout in the previous step, you'll be asked to enter you business name, personal details, and delivery address.
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At the bottom of the same page, tick the checkbox to confirm that you agree to Yoco's terms and conditions. You can also tick a checkbox to set up a virtual session with a Yoco specialist.
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Follow the prompts to pay for your devices.

Enter your first name, last name, mobile number, and email address – remember that you must be the sole trader, owner or a director, partner, member or trustee of the business you're signing up for.
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Create a Password (minimum 8 characters).

Tick the checkbox to confirm that you agree to Yoco’s terms and conditions.
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Enter your Business trading name – this is the name your customers know you by, and it will appear on your Yoco receipts.

Select your Industry from the dropdown menu.

Select Next to continue.
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Enter your business trading address.
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💡 Good to know: Your business trading address is the physical address where your business operates and provides its products or services – it can be a commercial premises or your home address if you run your business from home. We won’t ask you for proof of address.
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Select Next to continue.
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Once you’ve completed the steps outlined above, you’ll be redirected to the Yoco App (mobile or web) to complete your Yoco profile.

Self-employed person/sole trader/sole proprietor: This is someone who owns and operates a business on their own and is personally responsible for all debts, liabilities, and profits of the business. This is the simplest business structure and there’s no legal distinction between the owner and the business.
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Private Company (Pty) Ltd: This is any business/for-profit operation owned by one or more people/legal entities that has been registered as a (Pty) Ltd with the CIPC. It has one or more directors. Only a registered director of the company can sign up with Yoco.
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Partnership: This is an unregistered business and represents the relationship between two or more people (partners/co-owners), who work together to generate a profit. Only a partner/co-owner of the business can sign up with Yoco.
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Close Corporation (CC): This is any business/for-profit operation that is owned by one or more people/legal entities (members) and that has been registered as a CC with the CIPC. Only a registered member of the CC can sign up with Yoco.
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Non-Profit Company: This is a legal entity registered with the CIPC that operates for a public benefit or social purpose, not to make profit for shareholders. Any money the NPC earns is used to support its mission and activities. An NPC must be registered. Only a director of the NPC can sign up with Yoco.
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Non-Profit Organisation: This is a legal entity that operates for a charitable, educational, religious, scientific, or social purpose rather than to generate profit for owners or shareholders. Any revenue earned is reinvested into the organisation’s mission rather than distributed as profits. An NPO can be registered or unregistered. Only a director, or the chairperson, treasurer or secretary of the NPO can sign up with Yoco.
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Trust: This is a legal arrangement in which a person or entity (the trustee) holds and manages assets on behalf of another person or group (the beneficiaries) according to specific instructions set by the person who created the trust. Only one of the trustees can sign up with Yoco.