You can now M-PESA at Pesapal machines by tapping your phone or scanning a QR code
Safaricom and Pesapal roll out M-PESA tap and dynamic QR payments on Pesapal card machines. Customers still enter a PIN..
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Safaricom and Pesapal have partnered to introduce two new convenient ways for customers to pay using M-PESA at Pesapal point-of-sale machines: by tapping their phone or scanning a QR code.
- This partnership allows payments by tapping a smartphone (using NFC) or by scanning a QR code displayed on the Pesapal machine.
- Key organizations involved are Safaricom, Kenya's leading telecommunications company, and Pesapal, an independent payment company.
- This integration aims to streamline the payment process, reducing the need to manually input till numbers or amounts, with the Tap-to-Pay feature requiring the My OneApp.
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