Mukuru

aid: mukuru
name: Mukuru
description: Mukuru is a Cape Town-headquartered, pan-African fintech and one of the continent's largest formal remittance
  providers, serving over 16 million customers across Southern, Eastern and Western Africa, the United Kingdom, and the European
  Union. Founded in 2004 to make sending money home faster and more affordable for the African diaspora, Mukuru now operates
  a broader financial services platform spanning international and domestic money transfers, the Mukuru Card (a prepaid card
  product), Mukuru Wallet (a mobile money wallet available in markets such as Botswana for airtime, electricity, and bill
  payments), Mukuru Pay (cash-based online checkout at retail partners), and Mukuru Funeral Cover (life insurance with cross-border
  repatriation benefits underwritten by Guardrisk Life). The company is licensed as a South African Financial Services Provider
  (FSP 45517) and registered Credit Provider (NCRCP9244), and reaches customers through a hybrid network of branches, retail
  booths, USSD, WhatsApp, web, and native Android, iOS, and Huawei AppGallery apps, supported by more than 320,000 pay-in
  and pay-out locations. An enterprise arm — branded under the Mukuru Enterprise / MukuruPay umbrella — offers collections
  and disbursements rails to businesses sending funds into or paying out across Africa. Mukuru does not publish a public developer
  API, OpenAPI specification, SDK, or open-source client; its Mukuru GitHub organization contains only archived forks of upstream
  infrastructure tooling (Drone, Helm, Puppet, PHP Docker images) and no Mukuru-authored libraries. Integrations with the
  Mukuru Enterprise platform are arranged through direct commercial engagement rather than a self-service developer program.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/mukuru.png
tags:
- Remittance
- Money Transfer
- Cross Border Payments
- Africa
- South Africa
- Diaspora
- Mobile Money
- Wallet
- Prepaid Card
- Funeral Insurance
- Disbursements
- Collections
- Cash In Cash Out
- Financial Inclusion
- Fintech
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mukuru/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/mukuru-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.mukuru.com
- type: AboutUs
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/about-us/
- type: Enterprise
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/enterprise/
- type: SendMoney
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/send-money/
- type: MukuruCard
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/mukuru-card/
- type: MukuruWallet
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/mukuru-wallet/
- type: MukuruPay
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/mukuru-pay/
- type: FuneralCover
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/mukuru-funeral-cover/
- type: Rates
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/check-rates/
- type: BranchesAndBooths
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/find-us/branches-booths/
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/sign-up-with-mukuru/
- type: Login
  url: https://mobile.mukuru.com/mobi/login
- type: HelpSupport
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/help-support/
- type: ContactUs
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/help-support/contact-us/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/news/
- type: PressMediaKit
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/about-us/press-media-kit/
- type: Blog
  url: https://moneymatters.mukuru.com/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/about-us/careers/
- type: FraudPrevention
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/fraud-prevention/
- type: Security
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/legal/information-security-at-mukuru/
- type: Legal
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/legal/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/legal/terms-conditions/
- type: ComplaintsPolicy
  url: https://www.mukuru.com/legal/the-mukuru-group-complaints-policy/
- type: AndroidApp
  url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mukuru.customer.android
- type: iOSApp
  url: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1515075370
- type: HuaweiApp
  url: https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C103861487
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Mukuru
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/mukurudotcom
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/mukurudotcom
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mukuru
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/mukurudotcom/
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@mukuru
- type: TikTok
  url: https://www.tiktok.com/@mukurudotcom
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com