Author: Hello Clever
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Clever Product Updates: Payout approvals, flexible settlement and more
Getting paid is only the start. What happens next matters just as much: who on your team signs off before money leaves, and when your settlement arrives. This month’s updates give you more options at both points, plus a faster way to switch between your merchant accounts. ✅ Stop wrong or unauthorised JPY payouts before…
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Hello Clever named in CB Insights’ 2026 Fintech 100
The global payments company was selected from more than 70,000 fintechs worldwide and recognised in the cross-border payments category. Global payments company Hello Clever has been named one of the world’s most promising fintech startups in CB Insights’ 2026 Fintech 100. Hello Clever is one of only two Australian fintechs named in the global list,…
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The migrant boom in Japan is an online payments opportunity
Walk into a konbini in Shibuya or a warehouse in Chiba and you’ll often hear Vietnamese, Tagalog and Bahasa Indonesia alongside Japanese. The numbers explain why. Japan’s foreign resident population passed 4.12 million at the end of 2025, up 9.5% in a single year, the fourth record high in a row. Vietnamese residents now number…
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Hello Clever Partners with Infinia to Scale Across Latin America
The partnership combines payment technology and financial infrastructure to simplify cross-border money movement. Hello Clever has partnered with Infinia to expand its payment operations across Latin America. The partnership gives Hello Clever access to local payment rails in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay. Through Infinia’s infrastructure, Hello Clever will access virtual…
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3 checkout mistakes costing you sales (and how to avoid them)
When you think about growing revenue, it’s tempting to just focus on attracting more traffic. More ads. More SEO. More social media. But one of the biggest growth opportunities is much closer to the finish line: your checkout. The difference between a customer completing a purchase and abandoning their cart often comes down to removing…
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Introducing CleverOS: This is how our team talks to our payments data
We built an internal AI system called CleverOS. Our team asks it a question about our payments data, in plain English, straight from Claude or ChatGPT. Approval rates, deposit volumes, payout SLAs, supplier health, dispute flags. It answers off a data layer we’ve audited against the source system, and it doesn’t stop at handing back…
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Clever Product Updates: Automatic Reports, Smarter Payments
This month ships real improvements across the board: automatic settlement reports you no longer have to chase, a rebuilt docs site that gets your team moving faster on either side of the platform, more ways for customers to pay you with confidence, and dashboard tools that help you hold onto customers before they leave. ✅…
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Case Study: How OMGLabs turned Instant Cashback into a sold out term in 24 Hours
Most sales don’t happen in the moment. Someone’s interested, they say they’ll think about it, and the decision drags on for days or weeks, if it happens at all. OMGLabs, Australia’s first 3D Print Kids Academy, closed that gap entirely. On the day their students’ term projects went on display, every next-term sign-up offer converted,…
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AI is rewriting the whole shopping journey
Think back to how commerce has evolved over the past two decades. First, every business needed a website. Then came mobile commerce, followed by social commerce, where platforms like Instagram and TikTok became sales channels in their own right. Now another shift is underway. A growing number of shoppers are asking AI to help them…
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Peak Season Is Coming: Is Your Checkout Ready?
The busiest shopping period of the year is just around the corner. Whether you’re planning for Black Friday, Cyber Monday or the Holiday rush, now is the time to fine-tune your checkout before traffic starts to climb. Here are six areas worth reviewing before peak season arrives. ✔ Review your checkout from a customer’s perspective…