1,000+ contractors operating on Mealie

Pay a thousand contractors like it’s one.

One payment in. Mealie splits it across every contractor, reconciles every cycle, and files every record — while you and your clients watch every rand land.

Why this exists

Banking was built for salaries. Work changed.

One employer, one payslip, one account. That's the world banking was built for.
Contractor work is one payment, split across a thousand people, every cycle. The system was never built to see it.
Mealie was. Money in. Everyone paid. Everything on record.
How it works

One payment in. Everyone paid. Everything on record.

You

Pay once

One consolidated payment goes in — whether you pay agencies or contractors directly. Nothing about how you operate changes.

Mealie

Splits, routes, files

Rules divide the deposit across every contractor — reconciled, recorded, and visible end to end.

Every contractor

Is paid, with proof

Earnings land in their own account and card, benefits attached. Every rand traceable by the people who sent it.

The base: every contractor gets a Mealie bank account — powered by Access Bank. Real bank accounts with payout rules built in — set once, applied automatically, every cycle. The base never changes; everything on top is shaped around your programme.
Pattern A — DirectEarnings straight in

Payouts land directly in each contractor's account — clean, immediate, fully recorded.

Pattern B — Split firstFees settle on the way

Agency fees and approved vendor charges are split out automatically; what remains lands in the contractor's account, with every deduction on record.

Nothing to buildNothing to installNothing to integrate If you can make a payment, you can run on Mealie — at a fraction of the effort and cost of running it yourself.
One account, every platform

Work for three platforms. Get paid like one person.

A contractor might drive for Uber in the mornings, Bolt at night, and deliver for Takealot on weekends — each paid through a different agency or platform. Today that's three payment streams, three sets of deductions, and no single picture of what they earn.

On Mealie, every deposit lands in the same account. One financial life, whole — whoever the work was for. And the more platforms and agencies on Mealie, the better that life gets.

For client enterprises, a new lens: see your share of each contractor's earnings — and understand loyalty, utilisation, and retention in a way that has never been possible.

T. Nkosi · Mealie accountThis week
Uber shiftsvia fleet partner · Mon–Fri
R 1,840
Bolt nightsvia fleet partner · Thu–Sat
R 920
Takealot deliveriesvia delivery hub partner · weekend
R 660
Share of earnings
Uber 54% Bolt 27% Takealot 19%
The marketplace

Built to make contractors' lives simpler

Exclusive deals from vetted vendors — fuel, groceries, airtime, cover — paid straight from earnings, priced for their reality.

Every purchase builds their record. Every programme earns its agency a share of the volume.

Case study · MotoPay

1,000+ drivers transacting. The payment admin, gone.

The client

MotoPay — an e-commerce store serving drivers in the Uber ecosystem, selling devices, equipment and fuel vouchers.

The programme

Mealie runs the payment administration underneath the store — every purchase splits itself automatically between the right parties, in the moment.

The result

1,000+ drivers transact in the MotoPay ecosystem — while MotoPay focuses on running the operation, not the money. On rails powered by Access Bank.

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Who it's for

Who are you paying?

Wherever work runs on contractors — logistics, sales, IT, security, construction, beauty & wellness — the money moves the same way. So does the fix.

You pay through agencies

Keep your model. Lose the blind spot.

  • Your agencies run on Mealie — far less effort and cost than running the admin themselves
  • You see every rand reach every contractor, and set or approve the rules it follows
You pay contractors directly

Your back office, gone.

  • Splits, reconciliation, statements, records — handled, at a fraction of the effort and cost
  • Give your contractors benefits you could never build alone
Your contractors

Paid with proof.

  • Their own account and card, whoever the work was for
  • A marketplace and a record that grow with every rand
The people we pay

Built for the people doing the work

A driver on shift, map open, smiling at the wheel.

The driver

Six days a week on a ride-hailing platform. Her earnings land in her own account the day the platform pays — with a fuel voucher already loaded for Monday morning, bought from her earnings, at her price.

Ride-hailing · Gauteng
A courier handing over a parcel at the door.

The courier

Runs his own van on courier routes. Every shift he works is on record: what the client paid, what reached him, and why — a statement he can take to a bank, an insurer, or anyone who asks.

Courier · Eastern Cape
A young cashier serving a customer at the till.

The first-jobber

Placed through a youth employment programme, her stipend is funded before she starts. With every rand traceable from sponsor to her account, it arrives the way it was sent: whole.

Youth employment · National
Start here

Bring us your money flows. We’ll bring back a programme.

Real bank accounts on regulated rails, with a licensed sponsor bank underneath — and we never compete with the partners who build on us.