The merchants sign up with a QR code provider. MoneyBadger currently works with two of those providers by adding LN rails: [Scan to Pay](https://www.scantopay.io/), and [Zapper](https://www.zapper.com/).
(That is in addition to stores/chains that integrate in a more direct way like Pick 'n Pay, or Bootlegger.)

Those QR code providers play an important role in providing merchants a payment option which is open to the large number of unbanked South Africans. One of the key ones is the ability to spend mobile phone credits (called "air time") for goods. The phone credits can be bought with cash. That bridges the gap for the unbanked.

ok so merchants need to sign up to money badger too? that's even more interesting. I'll have a look

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> It is making it easy to pay with sats, still merchants are continuing to get paid in fiat i assume

I too strongly suspect many choose to get fiat. But it says it's the merchants' choice on MoneyBadger's site.