Vouchers
Cash vouchers are the deposit route for South Africans who don’t want to use a bank card or online banking. You buy a voucher with cash at a shop, get a PIN on the slip, and redeem that PIN in the Scorebet cashier to fund your wallet. No account number, no card, no app login — just a code you bought over the counter. For a lot of players, it’s the simplest and most private way in.
How a voucher deposit works
The two parts are buy, then redeem:
- At a participating retailer, ask for a 1Voucher or OTT voucher and pay cash for the amount you want.
- The till prints a slip with a PIN — this is your value, so guard it like cash.
- In the Scorebet cashier, choose the voucher option and enter the PIN.
- The value reflects in your wallet, instantly, and you’re ready to bet in rand.
There’s no waiting and no clearing — once a valid PIN is redeemed, the money is there.
Where to buy them
1Voucher and OTT run through huge retail networks across South Africa, so they’re easy to find. You’ll get them at major supermarket tills, petrol stations, and the many smaller outlets that carry these voucher brands. You pay cash at the counter and walk out with the PIN slip. Because it’s a cash purchase, there’s nothing to set up in advance — handy if you got paid in cash or simply prefer to keep betting money separate from your bank.
What happens to leftover balance
A common worry: you buy a R100 voucher but only want to put R60 in. With most voucher types, the unused portion stays on the voucher as a remaining balance you can redeem later — so the value isn’t lost, it just sits on the PIN until you use it. The practical rule is to keep the slip until the full value is spent, because that PIN is the money. Lose the slip with balance still on it and you’ve effectively lost cash.
Vouchers vs the other methods
Vouchers trade a tiny bit of convenience for total independence from banking. There’s an extra step — a trip to a till — compared to Instant EFT or a bank card that you do from your couch. But you don’t expose any bank or card details, and you cap your spend at exactly the cash you bought. That makes vouchers a genuinely good budgeting tool as well as the answer for the unbanked.
One thing to plan for: withdrawals still pay out by EFT to a bank account after FICA verification, so even if you deposit by voucher, you’ll want a bank account ready to receive winnings.
Buy the voucher, redeem, and you’re in
Buy only what you mean to spend, keep the PIN slip safe until the value’s used up, and remember a leftover balance waits on the voucher for next time. When you’re ready to cash out, line up the bank account that’ll receive the payout. The voucher option is live in the Scorebet cashier — redeem your PIN and you’re funded.
Frequently asked
Where can I buy a 1Voucher or OTT voucher?
You buy them with cash at thousands of retail tills across South Africa — major supermarkets, petrol stations and spaza-style outlets that carry the OTT or 1Voucher network. You pay cash, the cashier prints a slip with a PIN, and that PIN is what you redeem at Scorebet.
What happens to leftover voucher balance?
If you redeem a voucher worth more than you want to deposit, the unused portion usually stays on the voucher as a remaining balance you can redeem later, depending on the voucher type. Treat the PIN like cash — keep the slip safe until the full value is used.
Do I need a bank account to use vouchers?
No — that's the whole point. You buy the voucher with cash and redeem the code to fund your wallet, so you can deposit and bet without any bank account, card or banking app. Withdrawing winnings, though, still pays out by EFT to a bank account after FICA verification.
Is a voucher PIN safe to use once, or could it be skimmed from the slip?
The PIN is the money — anyone who sees it can redeem it, so treat the printed slip like a banknote. Cover the scratch panel until you are ready, redeem it promptly rather than carrying a live PIN around for days, and never photograph it into a chat or send it to someone who promises to deposit on your behalf. Once redeemed into your own wallet it is spent and safe; the risk window is the time it sits unredeemed on a slip.
Why can a voucher fund a deposit but not pay out a withdrawal?
Vouchers are a one-way, cash-in instrument: a retailer sells you value, you redeem the PIN, and that's the end of the rail — there is no account on the voucher to send money back to. Payouts also have to satisfy FICA, which means the operator must pay a verified, named bank account, something a cash voucher can never be. So even a voucher-only depositor needs a bank account in their own name to collect winnings.