Author: Hello Clever
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Introducing Clever Connect: payment infrastructure built for the way platforms actually operate
Platforms and marketplaces are on track to drive 53% of all ecommerce growth by 2030 (Cymbio, 2025). As more commerce shifts from individual merchants to platforms, the payment infrastructure sitting underneath those platforms is becoming one of the more consequential decisions they make. For an individual platform, it becomes a growth lever if the infrastructure…
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Hello Clever appoints Justin Grooms as President
The former Bolt president joins the Australian real-time payments company to drive global growth and build the first truly AI-powered, agent-first consumer-payments experience. Global real-time payments company, Hello Clever, today announced the appointment of Justin Grooms as President. Grooms joins with a mandate to drive growth, scale the company’s global revenue operations and build a…
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Three Awards, One Night: The Best Finnies Yet for Hello Clever
At the 2026 Fintech Australia Finnie Awards, Hello Clever took home three awards. More than any other business on the night. Best Workplace Diversity, Excellence in Establishing a Global Presence, and Outstanding Fintech Leader of the Year for our CEO Caroline Tran. It is our strongest Finnies performance to date, building on Emerging FinTech of…
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The surcharge ban is coming. Here’s why clever merchants are moving to real-time payments now.
From 1 October 2026, card surcharges are banned in Australia. If you’re currently surcharging, you lose the ability to recover card processing fees at the point of sale. If you’re not, you’ve been absorbing those fees the whole time. Either way, October forces a question most merchants haven’t had to answer directly yet: what would…
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Clever AI now speaks your language.
There is a quiet assumption built into most analytics tools – that English is everyone’s working language. If it is not yours, you work around it. Translate the question, run the query, translate the answer back. Or just go with your gut. That workaround has a cost:. slower decisions, a layer of friction between you…
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Shoppers are asking AI what to buy. Clever Shop makes your products the answer.
A growing number of shoppers have stopped opening Google and shopping apps, and started opening ChatGPT instead. According to PYMNTS’ ‘From Assistive to Agentic AI: Consumers Wade Into Autonomous Commerce’ Report (2026), 70% of consumers are saying yes to AI agents for shopping. They type ‘Give me recommendations for the best running shoes for my…
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March Update: A clearer overview, smarter AI, and 21 languages.
Each month, our product team ships updates to help merchants work smarter and grow faster. March focused on three things: visibility, relevance, and language capabilities. Here’s what landed this month. 1. See your business more clearly Most dashboards report the past. The new overview tells you what to do next. Two sections sit at the…
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What Is My Shopify Store Actually Making? Now You Can Know in Real Time.
Shopify lives in one tab. Your payments live in another. The real story of your business lives somewhere in between, usually in a spreadsheet, usually too late. That is the problem the Shopify Data Connector solves. What the Hello Clever Shopify Data Connector does The Shopify Data Connector joins your Shopify order data (orders, customers,…
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Ditching the ‘hidden fees’ of female leadership
At Hello Clever, we work on celebrating the talented women in our team all year round, but naturally, International Women’s Day calls for something just a little extra. In past years, we’ve taken massive strides with core policy introductions like paid menstrual leave, and ensuring team members on parental leave don’t miss out on superannuation.…
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Hello Clever and GMO Aozora Net Bank Announce Transactional API Integration to Enable Payment Capability in Japan for Global Businesses
Hello Clever has announced an integration with GMO Aozora Net Bank’s transaction API to support local payment capability in Japan for global businesses operating in one of the world’s most complex payment markets. Japan is a critical hub for global commerce, but one where payments infrastructure demands local trust, regulatory alignment, and long-term commitment. As…