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With the overflow of online businesses and the growth of the banking industry in the digital market, most business owners and small and medium entrepreneurs have been wondering how to conveniently and securely receive payments online. With the introduction of SIMPLEPAY, it will be needless to look any further. SimplePay allows any business or consumer with an e-mail address and a bank account to securely, conveniently and cost-effectively send and receive payments online or through their mobile phone. SimplePay today announced it has secured Level 1 Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification which is the world’s highest security standard for organizations that handle branded credit cards. SimplePay is now among the very few service providers in Nigeria that have this certification. Courtesy of this certification, SimplePay is able to securely process payments from the major card schemes including Verve, Visa, and MasterCard. This certification also allows SimplePay to offer merchants new payment options such as one-click and recurring payments. SimplePay has been revamped to offer clean and simple integration for merchants. For startups, SimplePay is offering free integration and is charging the industry lowest fee. The revamped platform offers easy integration, superb support, features and solutions that are tailored to meet the needs of businesses. According to Simeon Ononobi, Founder of SimplePay, “We will become the cheapest, most secure and reliable payment gateway in Nigeria. It is free for all to integrate and we have a cheaper fee for all startups for a period of 6 months. We charge 1.9% plus NGN10 which is the cheapest fee you can find right now in Nigeria. This is to encourage startups like us to connect, and to also help them meet their payment needs. “For those that have a large user base, SimplePay still promises to negotiate these fees further down. We have a dedicated team of developers from Portugal and Nigeria working tirelessly to keep developing new payments solutions and services for merchants.”