Graymat Pay — Card, wallet and cash in one number

Five places. None of them agree.

Ask a COD founder what they are owed this week and watch what happens. They open the courier portal, then the bank app, then a WhatsApp thread with an accountant, then a spreadsheet — and still answer with a range. Not because they are disorganised. Because no system holds all five pieces.

Cash with the couriercollected · not remitted

The parcel was delivered and the rider took the cash. It is real money you cannot touch until the remittance cycle runs.

?How much, and landing which day

Prepaidpaid · not delivered

Paid online before dispatch. If the parcel never lands, this is money you owe back, not money you made.

?Which of these are still at risk

Walletown settlement cycle

Collected on a rail that settles to its own calendar and reports on its own statement, in its own format.

?Which order each line belongs to

Never collectedbooked · never picked up

The courier accepted the booking and never came for the parcel. It sits in your warehouse looking exactly like a sale.

?Nobody counts this bucket at all

Coming backreturn in transit

On a van heading to your warehouse. The revenue is reversing, and most dashboards still show it as a sale.

?What it costs you by the time it arrives

What am I owed, and when does it land?

NO SYSTEM ANSWERS THIS

This is not a theory about the market. It is the shape of our own brand's month: 13,644 orders placed → 11,420 confirmed → 8,718 delivered. Only 63.9% of what was placed ever turned into cash — and the other third did not vanish, it scattered across the five rows above. A gateway can process the prepaid row. It has no idea the other four exist.

Elyscents · Pakistan · as of Aug 2026 · courier-verified

Every rail a Pakistani customer actually uses.

Cards on your own Shopify checkout. RAAST inside the WhatsApp thread. Easypaisa in one tap. QR at the door. Bank transfer that matches itself to the order. All of it live today, on one merchant account — then every rupee of it put next to the parcel it belongs to.

Cards, native in Shopify

Debit and credit taken on your own checkout — the card fields sit in your storefront. No redirect to somebody else's page and no hand-off screen for the customer to abandon.

RAAST, inside WhatsApp

Instant bank-to-bank on Pakistan's national rail — requested and paid inside the chat the customer is already in. No app to install, no account number to type, nothing to screenshot.

Easypaisa, one tap

Wallet payment in a single confirmation, from the balance a customer already keeps on their phone. The method most of this market reaches for first.

Scan and pay — at the door with the rider standing there, at the counter in the outlet, or straight from a message.

Bank transfer

Account-to-account, matched back to the order automatically instead of landing in your statement as an anonymous credit for someone to hunt down on Monday.

COMING SOON

Buy now, pay later

Splitting the price at the point of sale. Not live yet — it is here so you can see where the rail list is going, not so it can be counted today.

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One integration, every rail

Turn a method on and it is live on your checkout and in your messages — one merchant account, one set of credentials, one settlement report covering all of them. Adding a rail is a switch, not another integration project and another reconciliation spreadsheet.

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Settled to your own account

Money moves to the merchant's own bank account. It does not stop in a Graymat account on the way, and it is never pooled with another brand's takings.

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Reconciled against the courier

Every payment is matched to the parcel it paid for and to what the courier record says happened to that parcel. The dashboard reports collected, in transit and returned — three different facts. Not one word that covers all three badly: "paid."

Who holds the money

Processing and settlement run on licensed payment partners, regulated for that purpose. Graymat does not hold a payment licence and never holds your money — it does not sit in a Graymat account on its way to you.

What Graymat runs is the part you touch: the acceptance surfaces on your checkout and in your messages, the merchant account behind them, and the reconciliation that puts every payment beside the courier's version of the same parcel. That line is deliberate, and it is not moving.

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Six ways it makes money, not six payment features.

A payment method is a cost line. Each of these exists because it changes what a customer does — takes an order that would have shrunk, saved a parcel that was going to come back, collected from someone who was going to refuse. Payment is the mechanism, not the point.

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Prepaid upsell

Offer an addition to the parcel before it is dispatched, and collect for that addition now rather than at the door.

Why it worksThe cash asked for at the door doesn't grow. A bigger order normally means a bigger number the customer has to find in their pocket — which is a bigger reason to refuse the parcel. Collect the difference up front and the doorstep ask stays exactly where it was.

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Cart recovery with a payment link

The recovery message carries the payment itself. The customer pays from inside the conversation.

Why it worksThey never have to go back to the site they already abandoned. Recovery normally asks someone to repeat every step that lost them the first time — find the page, rebuild the cart, re-enter the address. This asks for one tap in a thread they are already reading.

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Deposit on risk

Customers with a history of refusing parcels are asked to pay up front. Everyone else keeps cash on delivery, untouched.

Why it worksThe cost of refusals is carried by the people who cause them, instead of by every order on the site. The usual alternatives are blunt: prepay for everyone, which drives away good customers who simply prefer cash — or prepay for nobody, and absorb it.

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One-tap replenishment

A customer who is running out gets one message that both reorders and takes the payment.

Why it worksA repeat purchase stops needing a storefront visit. The second order from a happy customer is the cheapest order a brand can get, and it is routinely lost to nothing more than the effort of going back to the website to place it.

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Return rescue

A parcel already flagged as heading back is offered terms in a message, and paid for from that message — so it turns around instead of coming home.

Why it worksThe parcel is already made, packed and in the van. A refused parcel costs the product margin plus freight in both directions and returns you nothing. Anything that keeps it sold beats paying twice to get it back.

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Instant refunds

Money goes back on the rail it arrived on, without a bank visit, a screenshot, or a week of asking.

Why it worksA refund the customer can actually see arrive is the cheapest possible ending to a complaint. A slow one turns into messages, a public review, and a customer who will never risk prepaying you again.

The part a gateway cannot build.

Say it plainly: a payment company sees payments. A courier sees parcels. Neither one can see the other's record, so neither can tell you whether the money for a given order actually arrived. Reconciliation is not a harder version of processing a payment — it is a different problem, and it needs both records against the same order.

A payment company knowsone half

That a transaction succeeded, for an amount, at a time, on a rail.

✕Not whether the parcel was ever delivered

A courier knowsthe other half

That a parcel was booked, attempted, delivered or returned — and what cash was collected at the door.

✕Not what was already paid online

Graymat holds bothagainst one order

The courier record was already here — bookings, attempts, delivery, returns and remittances, across every courier the brand ships with. Graymat Pay adds the payment record to it.

✓One order. Both records. One answer.

COLLECTED

The money is yours and accounted for — paid online, or collected at the door and confirmed against the courier's own record of that parcel.

IN TRANSIT

Owed but not landed: collected by a courier and not yet remitted, or paid online for a parcel that has not been delivered yet. Real, but not spendable, and not the same thing as collected.

RETURNED

The parcel came back. The revenue reverses, the refund is owed if it was prepaid, and it stops counting as a sale the moment the courier says so — not weeks later during a manual audit.

This is the whole argument for Graymat Pay, and it is the reason the comparison is never "a cheaper gateway." A cheaper gateway makes the prepaid row slightly cheaper. It cannot make the five rows add up, because it will never see four of them.

⬦ Roadmap · none of this works yet

What's coming.

The courier record above runs today. The payment rails do not — Pay is being built, and this section is the furthest edge of it. These are the directions Graymat Pay is being built toward, written down so you can hold us to them — not so they can be sold as though they already exist. Buy now, pay later belongs to this list too — it sits up in the rail list instead, marked coming soon, because that is where a merchant goes looking for it.

NOT BUILT

Storefronts inside partner wallet apps

The brand's catalogue appearing inside the apps where customers already keep their money — buying in the place the balance lives, rather than being sent out to a browser.

NOT BUILT

Financing priced on delivery history

Working capital priced on what a brand's parcels actually deliver and settle — a record Graymat already holds — instead of on collateral and a bank statement that says nothing about COD.

No dates, on purpose. Each of these depends on licensed partners and approvals that are not ours to schedule, and a date we cannot keep is worse than no date at all. When one of them starts working, it moves up into the sections above and this page will say so.

Your money is in five places.
Ask for one number.