Tag: Lipa Na M-PESA
Safaricom Digitizes Short-Term PayBill Application with Self-Help Portal
M-PESA is a key moneymaker for telco Safaricom. The mobile operator has, over time, added key innovations on top of what the financial product...
Safaricom Moves to Improve Lipa Na M-Pesa Payments in Supermarkets
One of the biggest hurdles Safaricom has struggled to overcome has been with the Lipa Na M-Pesa process, especially at supermarkets. Aside from requiring...
Safaricom to Introduce Fuliza, an Overdraft Facility on M-Pesa Transactions
During the announcement of the company's Half Year results, Safaricom took the opportunity to announce that they will be introducing overdrafts on M-Pesa, the...
Here’s Why You Have Cents On Your M-Pesa Balance
The other day, a Twitter bushfire was lit when one Kenyan going by the handle @ItsMutai tweeted asking Kenyans to pay attention to their...
Safaricom is Adding Scanning of QR Codes For Cash Withdrawal and Lipa Na M-PESA Services
Yesterday, Safaricom sent a huge update to its mySafaricom app. The update was significant and included key additions as we discussed in this post....
What Happened to Safaricom’s M-Pesa 1Tap?
Four months ago, as M-Pesa was announcing its financials, the company took that opportunity to announce the coming of age of their new M-Pesa solution,...
What Safaricom’s Updated MPESA APIs Mean for Businesses
On August 1, Safaricom announced that it was going to take a more elementary and unchallenging approach for businesses to integrate M-PESA into their...
Making Payments with M-Pesa 1 Tap Will Focus On Speed and Ease of Use
The announcement of Safaricom’s new MPESA-based solution, M-Pesa 1 Tap is aiming to be a game changer in payment services for M-Pesa users. Generally speaking, this is a bold...
Safaricom’s NFC Powered M-Pesa 1 Tap Payments Solution is Now Official
Safaricom has finally rolled the curtains on its new product, M-Pesa 1 Tap. The solution, as its name suggests, is a Tap and Go...
Safaricom Conducting Pilot for Lipa na M-Pesa Payments Card
In a move aimed at accelerating payments using Safaricom's Lipa na M-Pesa merchant solution, Safaricom is conducting a pilot for a Lipa na M-Pesa...
You Can Now Pay All Your Bills in a Single M-Pesa Transaction
Safaricom has today announced the launch of a service called bill manager that allows M-Pesa customers to manage and pay all their bills in...
10 Banks now offering Real Time M-Pesa Merchant Settlement
Safaricom has partnered with eight more financial institutions to enable businesses which use Lipa Na M-PESA to transfer funds from their Lipa Na M-PESA...
Safaricom’s M-Pesa wins Two Awards at the Emerging Payments Awards
Safaricom’s Mobile Money platform has grown in leaps and bounds since its inception in 2007. In announcing the FY 2014/15 financial results, the Telco...
[Infograph] How To Pay For E-Citizen Services Through Lipa Na M-pesa
Keen on faster delivery of goods and services to the people, the Kenyan government has implemented e-citizen services. These services are offered through a...
Safaricom Introduces Lipa Na M-PESA, Targets SMEs
Lipa Na M-PESA is part of Safaricom's strategy that targets SMEs. With this campaign Safaricom wants to entrench the use of its payment services...