“Can a real-time earned wage access product scale across Australia and Canada while remaining free to employers and repaid seamlessly on payday?”
Founded in 2020 as an Australian consumer fintech offering real-time earned wage access via NPP instant payment rails. The core product allows workers to draw up to $3,000 against their earned wage before payday, repaying from their next pay cycle. The company subsequently expanded internationally into Canada via a separate legal entity (Wagepay Inc.), adapting compliance to PIPEDA and provincial privacy law. VoPay was onboarded as a key payments infrastructure partner to support the Canadian corridor. The business has not publicly disclosed venture equity rounds beyond $6.7M in debt/line-of-credit financing.
Wagepay Payroll processes payments through VoPay.
Wagepay Payroll uses VoPay for FX and cross-border payouts.
The Embedded Finance Index 2026 maps 4 layers in Wagepay Payroll's stack: Payments / PSP (VoPay); Lending (Wage advance / earned wage access (up to $3,000 AUD) and Pay advance (Canada)); Unified APIs (VoPay); FX & payouts (VoPay).
Wagepay Payroll is founded in 2020 and headquartered in Brisbane (Indooroopilly), Queensland, Australia.
Wagepay Payroll has raised $6.71M in total (latest round: Line of Credit / Debt Financing).
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