Payments & Money Movement in Africa
71 payments & money movement providers across Africa, publishing 524 APIs.
Payments & Money Movement across Africa — 71 providers on the APIs.io network sit in both cohorts, and between them they publish 524 indexed APIs.
43 of the 71 publish at least one machine-readable API; 28 publish nothing indexed at all. That split is the first thing worth reading here — a vertical can be well represented in a market and still have almost no programmable surface.
By Kin Score band: 23 minimal, 17 developing, 17 emerging, 12 thin, and 2 strong.
Leading by rating: Paystack, Peach Payments, Flutterwave, MTN Group, Klasha, Paymob, and 65 more.
Region membership is derived from three explicit signals — a provider tag, a provider-name pattern, or a stated headquarters in the provider’s own description. This is a map of stated headquarters, not of markets served.
Providers (71)
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paystack | Paystack is an African payment processor (acquired by Stripe in 2020) that lets businesses accept payments in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and Egypt acros... | 21 | strong |
| Peach Payments | Peach Payments is a pan-African payment orchestration gateway founded in 2012 in Cape Town, South Africa, operating across South Africa, Kenya, and Mauritius. Its PCI DSS Level ... | 6 | strong |
| Flutterwave | Flutterwave is a pan-African payment infrastructure company providing the rails for businesses to accept, send, and manage money across Africa and globally. The Flutterwave for ... | 19 | developing |
| MTN Group | MTN Group is Africa's largest mobile network operator, headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, serving roughly 290 million subscribers across around 16 markets in Africa. B... | 145 | developing |
| Klasha | Klasha is a cross-border payments company for emerging markets that lets international businesses sell into Africa and accept payments online in local African currencies. The Kl... | 5 | developing |
| Paymob | Paymob is a Cairo-headquartered, licensed payment infrastructure provider for the MENAP region. Serving roughly 390,000 merchants across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emi... | 10 | developing |
| Duplo | Duplo is a fintech company building the financial operating system for African and emerging-market businesses, headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria with operations in South Africa. I... | 1 | developing |
| 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 busines... | 6 | developing |
| Interswitch | Interswitch is Nigeria's foundational digital payments and transaction-switching company, founded in 2002 and regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria. It owns the Verve card sc... | 27 | developing |
| Afriex | Afriex is a cross-border payments and remittance company that moves money between Africa, North America, Europe and Asia. Its consumer app handles person-to-person remittances, ... | 10 | developing |
| Cardtonic | Cardtonic is an Africa-focused fintech platform, operated by The Tonic Technologies, that lets users trade gift cards (sell unused cards for cash and buy over 14,000 local and i... | 5 | developing |
| Klump | Klump Technology Company Ltd is a Lagos, Nigeria based fintech whose flagship product, Klump BNPL (Buy Now, Pay Later), lets shoppers spread the cost of a purchase over monthly ... | 1 | developing |
| M-Pesa (Safaricom Daraja) | M-Pesa is Safaricom's mobile-money platform for Kenya, exposed to developers through the Daraja API. The Daraja REST APIs let businesses collect payments (M-Pesa Express / STK P... | 11 | developing |
| Moniepoint | Moniepoint is Africa's all-in-one financial platform for small and medium-sized businesses and individuals — Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, with about 10 million business ... | 19 | developing |
| Ozow | Ozow (formerly i-Pay) is a South African fintech providing an instant EFT / "Pay by Bank" payment gateway. Merchants create a server-side payment request, redirect the customer ... | 4 | developing |
| Paga | Paga (Pagatech Financial Services Limited) is a Nigerian mobile-money and payments company founded in 2009 and licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Its developer platform ex... | 5 | developing |
| dLocal | dLocal is an emerging markets payment platform that enables global merchants to accept and disburse local payment methods and currencies through a single REST API. The platform ... | 16 | developing |
| NALA | NALA is a fintech building cross-border payments infrastructure for emerging markets. Its consumer app is an international money-transfer and multi-currency account used to send... | 5 | developing |
| Djamo | Djamo is a mobile-first fintech serving Côte d'Ivoire and Sénégal, giving 1.5M+ users current and savings accounts with an IBAN, virtual and physical Visa cards, money transfers... | 1 | developing |
| Nestcoin | Nestcoin is an African fintech company building Onboard, a digital-money platform and crypto exchange for on/off-ramping between fiat and crypto. Its developer product, Onboard ... | 23 | thin |
| Howler | Howler is a South African event technology platform that consolidates ticketing, RFID cashless payments, and vendor and access-control management into a single system for event ... | 17 | thin |
| BALAD | BALAD CORP (Balad) is a Cairo-based fintech providing cross-border payout and inward-remittance infrastructure for Egypt. Its Balad Gateway APIs let money transfer operators (MT... | 7 | thin |
| Stitch | Stitch is an open banking and payments API platform providing unified access to financial data and payment rails across banks and financial institutions in Africa, primarily Sou... | 8 | thin |
| Payflex | Payflex is a South African Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform that enables merchants to offer interest-free installment payment options to consumers. Shoppers can split purchases... | 4 | thin |
| OPay | OPay is a Nigerian mobile money and fintech super-app operated by Blue Ridge Microfinance Bank (OPay Digital Services Limited) and majority-owned by Opera Limited with backing f... | 3 | thin |
| AZA Finance | AZA Finance is a regulated financial-infrastructure provider delivering foreign exchange (FX), collections, treasury and cross-border payout services across Africa and between A... | 16 | thin |
| LayUp Technologies | LayUp Technologies is a South African fintech that operates a lay-by / "Save Now, Buy Later" payment platform. Merchants use LayUp to let customers reserve goods with a deposit ... | 29 | thin |
| Mono | Mono is an African open-banking platform that lets businesses access bank and financial data and collect recurring payments through a single API. The Mono REST API at api.withmo... | 10 | thin |
| Carry1st | Carry1st is Africa's leading mobile games publisher and digital commerce platform, headquartered in South Africa and operating across high-growth African markets including Niger... | 4 | thin |
| Fawry | Fawry is Cairo-based Egypt's leading provider of e-payments and digital finance solutions, operating a nationwide network for card, e-wallet, and cash-based bill, merchant, gove... | 4 | thin |
| PayFast | South African payment gateway providing REST APIs for online payment processing, subscription billing, tokenized recurring card payments, onsite checkout, QR code payments, inst... | 8 | thin |
| Kora | Kora (formerly Korapay) is a pan-African payments infrastructure company that lets businesses collect payments, disburse payouts, run settlements, issue cards, verify identities... | 7 | emerging |
| EasyPay | EasyPay (Fawaterak) is an Egyptian digital payment gateway that lets businesses accept online payments and send invoices and payment links over WhatsApp or SMS without needing a... | 1 | emerging |
| Fincra | Fincra is an African cross-border payments infrastructure provider whose REST API lets businesses collect, hold, convert, and disburse money across multiple currencies. The plat... | 8 | emerging |
| Chimoney | Chimoney is a developer-first global payouts and disbursement platform with deep coverage across Africa and 130+ countries. Its REST API sends money to bank accounts, mobile mon... | 14 | emerging |
| Geidea | Geidea is a Saudi-headquartered fintech and payments platform serving merchants across the MENA region (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the UAE). Its Payment Gateway lets merchants acc... | 6 | emerging |
| Wave Mobile Money | Wave is a Dakar, Senegal-headquartered mobile money company on a mission to "make Africa the first cashless continent." Founded by Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk (who previously ... | 5 | emerging |
| Earnipay | Earnipay is a Nigerian fintech that operates an NRS/FIRS-compliant e-invoicing platform for businesses. As an accredited Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) and NITDA systems integrat... | 13 | emerging |
| Yoco | Yoco is a South African fintech providing card acceptance and payments infrastructure for small and medium businesses - card machines, point of sale, and online payments. Its de... | 5 | emerging |
| MFellows | Money Fellows (moneyfellows.com) is an Egyptian fintech that digitizes the traditional rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA, or "gam'eya") into app-based "money circle... | 0 | emerging |
| Julaya | Julaya is a West African B2B fintech, founded in 2018 and headquartered in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, that digitizes corporate financial operations across the UEMOA zone (Cote d'Iv... | 1 | emerging |
| Kredete | Kredete is an intelligent global finance app for diaspora and emerging-market communities, founded in 2022 and operating across four continents. It moves money across 60+ market... | 0 | emerging |
| Precium | Precium is a South African fintech that provides local payment infrastructure for global merchants expanding into Africa. Its enterprise-grade platform handles payment processin... | 0 | emerging |
| TranZak | TranZak is an African fintech platform headquartered in Douala, Cameroon, providing REST APIs for mobile money collections, merchant payments, bulk disbursements, bill payments,... | 4 | emerging |
| Swypex | Swypex is an Egyptian fintech, founded in 2022 and headquartered at Smart Village in Cairo, that provides an all-in-one financial management platform for businesses. The platfor... | 0 | emerging |
| dopay | dopay is a digital payroll platform operating in Egypt that lets employers register employees and disburse salaries in minutes through a single system, including permanent, temp... | 0 | emerging |
| Raenest | Raenest (formerly Geegpay) is a global money platform for freelancers, creators, remote workers, students, and businesses in Africa and beyond. It provides multi-currency accoun... | 0 | emerging |
| Onafriq | Onafriq (formerly MFS Africa) is a pan-African digital payments network headquartered in London with operating entities across Mauritius, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ugand... | 9 | emerging |
| Aella Credit | Aella (Aella Credit) is a technology-driven microfinance bank licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), building consumer and business financial infrastructure across Afric... | 1 | minimal |
| Capi Money | Capi Money is a cross-border payments fintech that lets businesses pay their suppliers in more than 30 currencies, targeting importers in Africa and other emerging markets who h... | 0 | minimal |
| AFi | AFi provides a platform for sending and receiving commercial payments across Africa. Targeting unbanked and underbanked small businesses, AFi enables B2B transactions via mobile... | 0 | minimal |
| Mukuru | 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, Easte... | 0 | minimal |
| Konga | Konga is a Lagos, Nigeria-based e-commerce company founded in July 2012 and now operating as Nigeria's leading online shopping marketplace, combining a first-party retail busine... | 0 | minimal |
| Chipper Cash | Chipper Cash is a pan-African fintech (legal entities Critical Ideas, Inc. and Voyse Technologies US, Inc.) operating a mobile-first cross-border money transfer, digital payment... | 0 | minimal |
| Jumba | Jumba is a Nairobi-based construction technology company founded in 2022 that digitizes the sourcing and financing of construction materials across Africa. Its B2B marketplace c... | 0 | minimal |
| Jumia | Jumia is a pan-African e-commerce company often described as the "Amazon of Africa." Headquartered in Berlin and listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker JMIA sinc... | 0 | minimal |
| Kuda | Kuda is a Nigerian digital-first retail bank — branded "the money app for Africans" and "the bank of the free" — founded in 2019 by Babs Ogundeyi and Musty Mustapha and headquar... | 0 | minimal |
| Inyad | Inyad is an all-in-one business management and payments platform for small and medium businesses across Morocco, the Middle East, and Africa. Its mobile-first apps let merchants... | 0 | minimal |
| Raseedi | Raseedi is an Egyptian financial technology platform that helps underbanked users manage their spending and save money. Through its mobile app it offers free and discounted call... | 0 | minimal |
| Vendease | Vendease is a Nigerian B2B food procurement platform (founded 2020, Y Combinator W21, backed by Partech Africa and TLcom) that helps restaurants, hotels, and other food business... | 0 | minimal |
| Sokowatch / Wasoko | Sokowatch — rebranded as Wasoko in 2022 — is a pan-African B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving informal retailers (the mom-and-pop dukas, kiosks, and neighborhood s... | 0 | minimal |
| Yassir | Yassir is an Algerian-founded super app providing on-demand and financial services across the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, Canada, and France. Founded in 2017 by Noureddine Taye... | 0 | minimal |
| MNT-Halan | MNT-Halan is a Cairo, Egypt-headquartered fintech holding company and Egypt's first private fintech unicorn, founded in 2017 by Mounir Nakhla (CEO) and Ahmed Mohsen (CTO). MNT-H... | 0 | minimal |
| FairMoney | FairMoney is a credit-led digital bank for emerging markets, founded in 2017 and headquartered in Paris, France, with operating subsidiaries in Nigeria and India. The company be... | 0 | minimal |
| Khazna | Khazna is Egypt's leading financial super app, a Cairo-based fintech building inclusive financial services for the country's underbanked payroll workers and their families. Thro... | 0 | minimal |
| Swoop | Swoop (formerly Thumo) is an African super-app building toward a single consumer platform for everyday commerce, starting with same-day food delivery and online shopping in Lago... | 0 | minimal |
| Jumo | JUMO is a Cape Town-based banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform, founded in 2015, that uses artificial intelligence to power digital credit and savings products for banks, mobile... | 0 | minimal |
| Noon | Noon is a Dubai-headquartered e-commerce marketplace and digital ecosystem launched in 2017 as a joint venture between Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Emirati business... | 0 | minimal |
| KaliSpot | KaliSpot is a fintech network operated by Outsource Monetic Group Inc. (OMG), an Atlanta-headquartered startup with legal presence in Senegal and Morocco. KaliSpots are Financia... | 0 | minimal |
| Onit | Onit is a Kenyan digital bank operated by Onit Microfinance Bank Inc. and regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), with deposits protected by the Kenya Deposit Insurance Co... | 0 | minimal |
| CrowdForce | CrowdForce was a Nigerian fintech that operated the PayForce agent-banking network, deploying point-of-sale and digital financial-services agents to extend cash-in/cash-out, bil... | 0 | minimal |
Indexed API documents (530)
Two numbers, both real: these providers publish 524 APIs as their own documents, which the catalog indexes split one-per-resource into 530 documents. Showing the first 200.
Paystack Webhooks
Paystack Balance API
Paystack Bulk Charge API
Paystack Charge API
Paystack Customer API
Paystack Dedicated Virtual Account API
Paystack Dispute API
Paystack Integration API
Paystack Page API
Paystack Payment Request API
Paystack Plan API
Paystack Product API
Paystack Refund API
Paystack Settlement API
Paystack Split API
Paystack Subscription API
Paystack Transaction API
Paystack Transfer API
Paystack Transfer Recipient API
Paystack Verification API
Paystack Sub Account API
Peach Payments Authentication API
Peach Payments Checkout API
Peach Payments Payment Links API
Peach Payments API
Peach Payments Payouts API
Peach Payments Reconciliation API
Flutterwave Transfers API
Flutterwave Settlements API
Flutterwave Wallets API
Flutterwave Banks API
Flutterwave Webhooks API
Flutterwave Chargebacks API
Flutterwave Charges API
Flutterwave Customers API
Flutterwave Fees API
Flutterwave MobileNetworks API
Flutterwave Orchestration API
Flutterwave Orders API
Flutterwave Rates API
Flutterwave Recipients API
Flutterwave Refunds API
Flutterwave Senders API
Flutterwave Account Resolution API
Flutterwave Payment Methods API
Flutterwave Virtual Accounts API
MTN MoMo Collection API
MTN MoMo Disbursements API
MTN MoMo Remittance API
MTN MoMo Sandbox User Provisioning API
MTN Group Accessible to 3PP API
MTN Group Accessible to USSD Gateway API
MTN Group Activation API
MTN Group Add User API
MTN Group Admin Suspend API
MTN Group Adverts API
MTN Group Advice Reconcile API
MTN Group Agents API
MTN Group Applied Customer Billing Rate API
MTN Group Auth API
MTN Group Balance Buckets Methods API
MTN Group Balance Management API
MTN Group Balance Transfer API
MTN Group Banktech API
MTN Group Callback API
MTN Group Callmeback API
MTN Group callmeback with geographicLocation API
MTN Group Cancel Customer PreApproval API
MTN Group Capability Check API
MTN Group Catalog API
MTN Group Category API
MTN Group Channel Vas Controller API
MTN Group Communication API
MTN Group Communication Message API
MTN Group Consent API
MTN Group Consent Validation API
MTN Group Content Push API
MTN Group Create Customer API
MTN Group Create Customer PreApproval API
MTN Group Customer API
MTN Group Customer Attribute API
MTN Group Customer Characteristics API
MTN Group Customer KYC API
MTN Group Customer Mobile Carrier Data API
MTN Group Customer Promotion API
MTN Group Customer Bill On Demand API
MTN Group Customers API
MTN Group Customer Transfer Service API
MTN Group Deactivation API
MTN Group Debit API
MTN Group Device Information API
MTN Group Device Swap API
MTN Group Document API
MTN Group Employee Leaves API
MTN Group Event API
MTN Group events subscription API
MTN Group GENEYSIS EEC TOKENS API
MTN Group Get access token API
MTN Group Hub API
MTN Group Incident ticket API
MTN Group Individual API
MTN Group Kyc API
MTN Group License Aggregator Controller API
MTN Group Link Accounts API
MTN Group Loyalty Balance API
MTN Group Loyalty Burn API
MTN Group Loyalty Member API
MTN Group Loyalty Program Product API
MTN Group Member Summary API
MTN Group Mo Mo API
MTN Group Monitor API
MTN Group Netflix Integration Controller API
MTN Group notification listeners (client side) API
MTN Group Notifications API
MTN Group Number Recycle Service API
MTN Group Organization API
MTN Group Organizations API
MTN Group OTP API
MTN Group Partners API
MTN Group Party Account API
MTN Group Party Interaction API
MTN Group Party Role Risk Assessment API
MTN Group Payment API
MTN Group payment methods API
MTN Group PIN API
MTN Group Policy API
MTN Group Premiums API
MTN Group Process Operations API
MTN Group Product API
MTN Group Productivity Report API
MTN Group Product Offering API
MTN Group Product Order API
MTN Group Products API
MTN Group Provider API
MTN Group Purchase API
MTN Group Query By Data API
MTN Group Query By Transaction ID API
MTN Group Query logback by targetURL and country code API
MTN Group Quotation API
MTN Group Receiving SMS API
MTN Group Reference Data Operations API
MTN Group Refund API
MTN Group Registration API
MTN Group Reporting API
MTN Group Resource API
MTN Group Resource Function API
MTN Group Resource Order API
MTN Group Sales Lead API
MTN Group Sending SMS API
MTN Group Service Activation Controller API
MTN Group Service API
MTN Group Siebel API
MTN Group Sim Activation API
MTN Group SIM & MSISDN Availability APIs API
MTN Group Sim Recycle API
MTN Group SIM Swap API
MTN Group Sim Swap API
MTN Group Sim Management Service API
MTN Group Status API
MTN Group Submit Withdrawal Request API
MTN Group Subscriber Attributes Controller API
MTN Group Subscriber Type API
MTN Group Subscriberinfo API
MTN Group Subscribing for Mobile Originating and Delivery Receipts API
MTN Group Taxation API
MTN Group TMF632 Party Management API
MTN Group TMF676 Payment Management Aggregator API
MTN Group TMF908 IoT Device Management API
MTN Group Topic API
MTN Group Track ticket API
MTN Group Trouble Ticket Aggregator Controller API
MTN Group Unified Balance Enquiry API
MTN Group URL Create API
MTN Group Usage Limit Adjust API
MTN Group Usage Consumption Report API
MTN Group Usage Management API
MTN Group Usage Managements S Sd API
MTN Group Users API
MTN Group Validate an Individual's Account Status API
MTN Group Validate Customer API
MTN Group Validate using QnA API
MTN Group VAS Services API
MTN Group Verify a Partner's FInancial Resources API
MTN Group Channel Service API
MTN Group Customer Bill API
MTN Group Financial Account API
MTN Group Fraud Management API
MTN Group Get Info API
MTN Group Order Fulfillment API
MTN Group Service Order API
MTN Group Shopping Cart API
Klasha Payments API
Klasha Payout API
Klasha Swap API
Klasha Virtual Account API
Klasha Payment Link API
Paymob Accounts API
Paymob Authentication API
Paymob Capture API
Paymob Disbursement API
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Payments & Money Movement elsewhere
This page is the intersection of two independently computed cohorts:
Africa and
Payments & Money Movement. A provider appears here only when it is
already a member of both. Africa membership is matched on tag, name pattern, stated HQ,
so this is a floor rather than a census — coverage gaps show up here as small numbers, not as absent pages.
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