When a buyer pays for a listing on Yalla, the money does not go to the seller and it does not go to Yalla. It goes into an escrow account held by TradeSafe, South Africa's longest-running digital escrow service, under Standard Bank oversight.
The seller gets written confirmation that the funds are secured before loading a single animal. The buyer inspects on arrival. Only once the buyer confirms they are satisfied does TradeSafe release the money — splitting the seller's payment and Yalla's fee in a single instruction.
Yalla's own bank account is never in that chain. That is a deliberate architectural choice with regulatory consequences, not an incidental detail.