Press Release

Colombo, Sri Lanka

OnePay Brings Google Pay to Sri Lanka's Grassroots Businesses Through Its Unified Checkout

Spemai Pvt Ltd, the Japanese funded technology company behind OnePay, has enabled Google Pay across its Unified Checkout, giving home based sellers and listed companies alike a faster, more familiar way to get paid online.

OnePay, Sri Lanka's payment gateway built for businesses of every size, has activated Google Pay support on its Unified Checkout. The update means any business already using OnePay can accept Google Pay payments today, with no additional setup, no new integration, and no extra cost.

For a country where digital payment habits are still forming outside the capital, this is a small technical update with a large practical effect. A tuk-tuk driver's wife running a home bakery in Kurunegala and a publicly listed retail chain in Colombo now share the exact same checkout technology. Both can offer their customers a one-tap Google Pay option, the same experience shoppers already trust on the world's largest platforms.

Why This Matters for Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's digital payment landscape has grown quickly over the past five years, but adoption has remained uneven. Larger, urban businesses moved early. Smaller, home based, and rural businesses were often left waiting for tools built with them in mind.

OnePay was built to close that gap from day one. Enabling Google Pay on the same checkout used by a home seller and a PLC company is a deliberate choice, not a coincidence. It reflects how OnePay has approached every product decision since launch: build it once, build it well, and make it available to everyone on the platform at the same time.

Five Years Building Sri Lanka's Payment Infrastructure

Spemai Pvt Ltd has spent five years building OnePay into one of the country's most widely used payment platforms. Backed by Japanese investment since its early days, the company has focused on a single mission: make digital payments simple enough for a home business to adopt on day one, and robust enough for a publicly listed company to depend on at scale.

That track record is what makes this announcement more than a feature update. OnePay has spent half a decade earning the trust required to bring a product like Google Pay to the grassroots level, not just to the businesses that could already afford modern payment infrastructure.

More Than a Checkout: Automation Built In

OnePay's role in a business does not end at the payment confirmation screen. The platform connects directly into the tools businesses already run on, including Zapier, n8n, accounting software, ERPs, and a wide range of industrial systems used across Sri Lanka's commercial sector.

For a small business, this means a payment is not the end of the admin work. It is the start of an automated process that used to take hours of manual reconciliation. For a larger company, it means OnePay can sit inside an existing technology stack rather than requiring one to be rebuilt around it.

One Checkout, Every Business

Google Pay joins OnePay Unified Checkout alongside Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and local mobile wallets including FriMi, QPlus, and HēlaPay. Every payment method appears on the same branded page, regardless of which OnePay merchant a customer is paying.

That consistency is central to what OnePay is trying to build. A customer who has used Google Pay to buy groceries should be able to use it just as easily to pay a home baker, book a guesthouse, or settle an invoice with a large distributor. The technology should not change depending on the size of the business behind it.

What Comes Next

OnePay continues to expand its merchant network across Sri Lanka, with a continued focus on bringing modern payment and automation tools to businesses that have historically been underserved by traditional financial infrastructure. The Google Pay rollout is part of a broader roadmap to keep OnePay's checkout aligned with how people actually want to pay, both in Colombo and far beyond it.