Cellulant
Cellulant is a pan-African payments platform headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, operating across 35 African countries. Its flagship product Tingg is a single API that lets businesses collect online and offline payments, disburse to mobile money wallets and bank accounts, vend airtime and data, pay bills, and engage customers by SMS — interoperably across 350+ banks, mobile network operators, and card networks. Cellulant processes more than 4.5 million transactions per day for over 2,000 enterprise merchants and powers payments for ~220 million consumers. The Tingg platform exposes three primary developer-facing surfaces: Tingg Checkout 3.0 (Express, Custom and Direct Card), Tingg Payouts (the Beep global JSON endpoint), and Tingg Engage (transactional SMS). Cellulant ships official SDKs for PHP, Python, Node.js, .NET, JavaScript, plus a WooCommerce plugin.
Cellulant publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Acknowledgement API, Authentication API, Custom Checkout API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Payments, Mobile Money, Checkout, Payouts, and Disbursement.
The Cellulant catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Cellulant’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, getting-started guide, sandbox, signup flow, pricing, and 50 more developer resources.
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APIs 6
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Cellulant Acknowledgement API
Acknowledge successful or partial payments back to the platform.
Cellulant Authentication API
OAuth 2.0 access token issuance for Tingg API calls.
Cellulant Custom Checkout API
Host-to-host checkout flow for merchant-controlled UX.
Cellulant Engagement API
Outbound SMS notifications and OTPs.
Cellulant Express Checkout API
Create hosted checkout sessions returning short and long URLs.
Cellulant Payments API
Post payouts, queries, validations, balances, and refunds.
Postman Collections 3
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Cellulant Tingg Checkout API
POSTMANCellulant Tingg Engage API
POSTMANCellulant Tingg Payouts API
POSTMANOpen Collections 3
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Cellulant Tingg Checkout API
OPEN COLLECTIONCellulant Tingg Engage API
OPEN COLLECTIONCellulant Tingg Payouts API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 10
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Cellulant Charge with OTP Notification
Initiate a custom checkout, send the customer an OTP by SMS, then push the charge request.
ARAZZOCellulant Check Balance and Payout
Read the float balance, then disburse a payout only when the platform authenticated the balance query.
ARAZZOCellulant Checkout, Poll, and Acknowledge
Raise an Express Checkout, poll status until paid, then acknowledge delivery back to the platform.
ARAZZOCellulant Checkout with SMS Notification
Create an Express Checkout, then text the customer the short payment URL over Tingg Engage.
ARAZZOCellulant Custom Checkout, Charge, and Poll
Host-to-host flow — authenticate, initiate a custom checkout, push the charge prompt, then poll until the payment resolves.
ARAZZOCellulant Express Checkout and Poll Status
Authenticate, raise a Tingg Express Checkout, then poll the request status until the payment settles.
ARAZZOCellulant Get Bill and Pay
Fetch the outstanding bill for an account, then settle it with a Beep payout.
ARAZZOCellulant Payout, Query, and Refund
Disburse a payout, query its outcome, and reverse it with a refund when the payout did not succeed.
ARAZZOCellulant Post Payout and Query Status
Disburse a payout, then poll the Beep platform with queryPayment until the payout reaches a terminal state.
ARAZZOCellulant Validate and Post Payout
Validate the destination account, then post a mobile money or bank payout through the Beep platform.
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Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cellulant Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Cellulant Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Cellulant Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Cellulant API Rules
SPECTRALCellulant API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Tingg Express Checkout Request
JSON SCHEMATingg Payout Packet
JSON SCHEMAExamples 3
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 12
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 14
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 7
The organization behind the API
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Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type