Become a business partner
Together, let’s facilitate connections that improve payment experience on the continent.
We partner with financial institutions, mobile network operators and non-financial institutions across Africa. Together with our diverse pool of partners, we facilitate connections that improve the payment experience on the continent. We have APIs spanning across e-commerce to disbursements, and we believe in providing simplified access to these for scalable businesses.
Agency banking
Agency Banking refers to contracting a retail-based outlet by a financial institution to process bank clients’ transactions. Banking agents help financial institutions to divert existing customer from crowded branches providing a “complimentary”, often more convenient channel.
Agency Banking benefits
Acquire and cost-effectively service financially excluded segment of the population at the bottom-of-the-pyramid who cannot afford conventional banking services.
Mass-market presence and visibility and broader access footprint for customers.
Diverse touch-points from small shops to supermarkets to petrol stations, resulting in higher and longer hours of availability and enhanced (distributed/aggregated) liquidity.
Reduced reliance on and requirement to establish a wide brick-and-mortar branch network while allowing a rapid rollout of representation in unserved or underserved areas.
Reduced requirement of ICT skills and equipment CAPEX, and national interconnectivity for branches.
We provide mobile banking services below for 35+ Banks in Tanzania:
Bank-to-Wallet transfers
Wallet-to-Bank transfers
Qwikserv (Shared Agency Banking)
POS Acquiring
Super Agency
Opportunity to further engage with Selcom to provide super agency services through the bank’s branch network.
Selcom cardholders/app subscribers as well as Selcom Paypoint agents are able to purchase e-value in return for real money.
Super Agent will provide bulk/wholesale e-value distribution and transfer services in respect of which Selcom cardholders/app subscribers and Selcom Paypoint agents will be able to purchase e-value.
Selcom Mastercard QR
Mastecard QR enables the simplest and secured collection of digital peer to merchants payments from multiple channels via a unique till number assigned to the merchants.
Prioritise mobile banking and maximise revenue by capturing the transaction loop fully.
Customise with innovative financial services such as loans, fee waivers, and more Subsidise the MPQR transaction fee for your corporate customers.
Bulk SMS
Selcom will provide the required resources to adapt to a standard or proprietary protocol required to integrate the service with the bank’s CBS if required. Standard interfaces available include SMPP, XML over HTTP(S), HTTP(S) GET/POST, FTP(S) batch file uploads or any other standard/proprietary interface required.
SELCOM APIs
What you can do with Selcom’s API
Selcom caters for multiple APIs, some of which include:
APIs for Banks | APIs for E-commerce | APIs for Bill payments
With Selcom API, you can improve more than payments
Gather data on payment channels and
Understand your customers experience and design solutions targeted at improving their experience
We will be launching our Developer Academy soon. Until then, reach out to us and sign up as a Developer Partner with us!
Become more relevant by allowing payments for your customers beyond cash
Digitize your day-to-day process and improve payment processes at cheaper costs.
All your payment needs can be visualised on one dashboard. Integrate your business apps with Selcom’s available APIs today and you can manage your finances, improve business services by managing all payments from different channels on one dashboard.