HelaPay, the digital payment service built into the Helakuru SuperApp, has crossed Rs. 5 billion in cumulative transaction value, the company said on Wednesday — a fivefold jump from the Rs. 1 billion mark it took nearly two years to reach.
The platform also collected the Gold Award for “Best Digital Government Payments Enabler” at the LankaPay Technovation Awards 2026, building on two Gold awards from 2025 for “Most Popular Digital Payment Product” and “Best Digital Payment Product for Retail Payments.”
HelaPay is anchored on Helakuru’s user base of more than five million Sri Lankans. It allows payments via any LankaQR merchant code, including government transactions such as police fines, with biometric authentication through Face ID and fingerprint. The interface is offered in Sinhala, which the company credits as a key driver of adoption.
Founder Dhanika Perera said in a statement that the milestone reflects user trust rather than just a transaction figure. “Surpassing the 5 billion rupee limit is not just a number; it is the trust our users have placed in us,” he said, signalling further product additions.
The pace of growth points to a broader acceleration in Sri Lanka’s digital payments ecosystem, with the regulator and banks pushing QR-based settlement and cashless government collections. HelaPay’s traction in government payment categories also tracks the policy push to digitise public service transactions launched earlier this year.
