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Manage your business 3 Apr 2025

From beginner to pro: Your Online Banking for Business cheat sheet

Mastering Online Banking: Your key to modernized digital banking.

Our commitment to delivering exceptional client experience and convenience lies at the heart of our business. This commitment also drives our ongoing pursuit to improve our digital banking channels and enhance your experience. Our new Online Banking for Business platform brings us another step closer to our goal.

Below Are Some of the Key and New Features available on the Platform:

Increase your user/transaction limits.
No reliance on a card to access the platform
Set up users and limits as per your business requirements
Make bulk payments by uploading a file
Purchase pre-paid Value-added Services under your business
Link your transactional account to your accounting dashboard e.g. with Sage, to seamlessly generate financial statements
 

Your step-by-step guide to common tasks

We understand that navigating a new platform can be challenging.

This guide aims to help you overcome these challenges and make the most of the innovative features Online Banking for Business offers.

Getting started with the Online Banking for Business platform.

How to access Online Banking for Business

Important to Note: There are planned migrations to move your digital banking services from Internet Banking to Online Banking for Business, which commenced from March 2025.
 
To Get a Head Start before migration:

Visit our Standard Bank website, click on “Sign-in”, scroll to “Online Banking for Business” and sign in using your existing credentials.

Activating your immediate payments

Follow these instructions below to activate your immediate payments now:

Step 1: Go to Online Banking for Business homepage, select ‘Manage’.

Step 2: Select ‘Default card selector’.

Step 3: To activate a card, select it and click the adjacent radio button until it turns blue.

Step 4: Activating this card enables you to make immediate payments.

Downloading your Proof of Payment (previously approved payments)

  1. Go to Online Banking for Business homepage, select “Transact”
  2. Scroll down to “Manage Payments and Transfers” select.
  3. The historical transactions will be displayed.
  4. Navigate to the desired transaction.
  5. Next to the transaction on the right, there will be 3 dots (…)
  6. Click on the dots, “proof of payment” will display.

Importing beneficiaries from the old internet banking

  1. Go to Online Banking for Business homepage, select “Manage”.
  2. Scroll down to “Beneficiaries.” 
  3. Click on “Import Beneficiaries”
  4. You can select “all” on the top right box or you can select a specific number of beneficiaries to import at a time. 
  5. Once the beneficiaries have been imported, you can amend details in need.