Partner programme

Company paperwork shouldn’t stall your customers.

Merchant applications, loan offers and seller sign-ups can stall when a company’s CIPC record is out of date. Govchain registers South African companies and keeps them compliant. Send us the customers who are stuck: your own onboarding moves again, and you earn 20% of our net fees on everything they buy for twelve months.

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Operating since: 2019
Google rating, 2 409+ reviews: 4.9★
Companies on the platform: 124 000
CIPC returns filed: 61 000+

Where your customers get stuck

Each of these is a step in your own product that can stop on a company record. Register the company or fix the record, and the step can go ahead.

Payments, POS and business banking: A merchant or account applicant signing up as a company is checked against CIPC. If the directors or address are out of date, or a document is missing, the application waits until CIPC is updated.; More merchants and business accounts activated, and fewer exceptions for your onboarding team to chase.
Marketplaces and seller onboarding: Sellers and suppliers who sign up as a company need documents that match CIPC, and the government supplier database checks directors against CIPC itself.; More sellers finish onboarding and start trading on your platform.
Lenders: Missing annual returns or a deregistered company can stop an offer to a business that otherwise qualifies.; Fix the record and the application is judged on the business again.
Franchise groups: Franchisees typically trade through a company, and that company has to file with CIPC every year it exists.; Franchisees open with the company in place and keep it in good standing.
Accounting and business software: The books, invoices or payroll come out of your product, but the CIPC and SARS returns still have to be filed, and a customer who starts trading in your product may need a registered company next. We register and file, and a registered tax practitioner reviews the tax returns.; Your customers get the company and the filings done without leaving for a product that also files.
Trade associations and chambers: Members who bid for public work need a supplier database listing and current tax compliance. A deregistered company cannot trade at all.; Members stay eligible to bid, and have a reason to renew.

How it works

1
Get your link
Sign up and your tracked link is ready the same minute. Put it where your customers get stuck: the decline page, the exception email, the application waiting on company documents.
2
Send a customer
They sign up with Govchain through your link. That attaches them to you for twelve months, whatever they buy and whenever they buy it.
3
Get paid monthly
A statement each month showing what you earned, paid on revenue that was actually received and not refunded.

What you earn

On every order

20% of net fees, for 12 months

Net of government fees and VAT, on everything the business buys from us in its first twelve months, not just the first order.

On subscriptions

20% of every month’s fee

Govchain Pro and Govchain Payroll bill monthly. If a business you referred subscribes during its first twelve months, you earn 20% of each monthly fee for a year.

Two ways to work together

Start with the referral link: nothing for your engineering team to do, and it tells both of us whether your customers want this. Once customers are coming through steadily, we can embed the first steps in your own product. The deal stays the same either way.

	1. Referral	2. Embedded
Best for	Anyone whose customers start or run companies. Where every partner begins.	Partners already sending us customers, where the stuck step sits inside your product and sending the customer away loses them.
You build	Nothing. A link or a code.	A small integration. Your customer answers our questions inside your product, with the details you already hold filled in if they agree to share them. Payment and director ID checks happen on Govchain.
You hear back	A monthly statement: company name, commission and paid status.	When your customer’s company is registered or its record is fixed, if they agree, so your team can pick their application up again.
Who owns and bills the customer	Govchain. We onboard, support and file.	Govchain, the same as referral.
You earn	20% of net fees on every order for 12 months, or pass it to your customer as a discount	The same 20% for 12 months. Embedding changes where your customer starts, not what you earn.
We contact your customer	Yes, they are ours to support	Yes, they are ours to support

Two packs to start with

One link covers both. The packs tell your team which customers to send and what each one gets on our side.

Start a registered business: Pty Ltd registration, SARS income tax number, registration documents, share certificates, B-BBEE affidavit where the company qualifies. For customers who need a company before your product can take them on.
Get verified: For a business whose CIPC record is blocking something: status check, documents retrieved, director and address changes, overdue annual returns and beneficial ownership brought current, reinstatement where deregistered. If you run onboarding or KYC, this is the one for applications that stall on the company record.

Straight answers

What if they already use Govchain?: Only new customers count, and we can tell at signup. You are never paid for someone we already had, and never blamed for it either.
Do you need my customer data?: Not for referrals. Your customer signs up with Govchain directly through your link, so nothing moves between us. Embedding sends only what your customer agrees to share, under a data-processing agreement.
Will we know when a customer is unblocked?: With referral, your monthly statement shows the company name and what you earned. With embedding, and only if the customer agrees, we tell you when their company is registered or its record is fixed, so your team can pick the application up again. We never share their filings or documents.
How fast is it?: We quote our own review and filing times up front. CIPC and SARS processing times are theirs, and we say so rather than promise what we cannot control.
Is there a minimum, or a fee to join?: No, and no. The programme is non-exclusive both ways.
What if we cannot accept referral fees?: Pass the 20% to your customer as a discount instead. Same link, same tracking and the same monthly statement, but the money goes to them rather than to you. The discount applies to orders. Pro and Payroll renewals are charged at the normal price.

Get your link today

Rather talk first? A thirty-minute call is enough to know if there is a fit: partners@govchain.co.za.