Practical guides for mobile money launches
How agent networks grow, how wallets connect to each other, and what a central bank expects before you launch. Free, in English, French and Portuguese.
Available in English, French and Portuguese.
The platform
Everything a wallet needs — one core, your brand.
The consumer feel of the apps people love, the breadth of a serious financial platform, and a SaaS admin that runs all of it without code.
How it works
Live in weeks, not years.
Configure your brand & country
Set your name, logo, colours, currency, language and KYC tiers in the admin — the apps re-skin instantly.
Wire your rails
Connect banks, mobile money, cards, billers, tax and telco through adapters — only what your market needs.
Launch on app, USSD & web
Ship your own apps to both stores, a USSD shortcode, and web portals — all from one platform.
Compliance, not theatre
KYC, limits and audit a regulator accepts.
Compliance isn't a screen you add at the end. In PesaBridge it's enforced by the ledger, on every transaction.
KYC is tiered. A customer can open a basic wallet with just a phone number, capped to low limits; raising the cap requires an ID and a selfie, captured and reviewed in the app. Each tier carries its own per-transaction and daily ceilings, enforced before any money moves — so limits aren't a suggestion, they're an invariant. Money cannot leave a wallet without basic identity verification, by design, because account opening with a valid ID is the floor a central bank starts from.
Above that sit AML controls — sanctions and PEP screening hooks, velocity and threshold rules that flag unusual behaviour for review — and a complete, immutable audit trail. Every transaction, reversal and KYC decision is recorded and exportable, with regulator-ready report packs.
And because each operator runs their own deployment and database, your customers' data stays yours: no shared tenant, no shared super-admin, no co-mingling with another institution.
KYC tiers
Why PesaBridge
Why operators choose us.
Mobile money is easy to demo and hard to run. PesaBridge is built for the parts that actually matter once real money moves.
A ledger you can trust
Stored value sits on a true double-entry ledger. Every transaction posts balanced debits and credits, is idempotent so retries never double-charge, and is reversible through one engine. The books reconcile to zero — the assurance a regulator and a CFO both need.
Reach every customer
Smartphone, feature phone or cash — nobody is left out. Native apps for those with data, USSD for everyday payments for those without, and an agent network for cash-in and cash-out. One ledger behind all three.
Your brand, end to end
Apps, USSD shortcode and web portals all carry your name, colours and currency — drawn from one config the apps read live. You run your own deployment; there is no shared tenant and no shared super-admin.
Compliance built in
Configurable KYC tiers and per-transaction and daily limits, AML screening and velocity rules, a full audit trail and regulator-ready reports — so going live doesn't mean bolting compliance on afterwards.
Open by design
An OAuth2 API, a sandbox, prompt-to-pay and signed webhooks let you sweep, settle and reconcile to your core. Rails — banks, mobile money, cards — are pluggable adapters, so you connect what your market needs without touching the core.
Live in weeks, not years
Configure your brand and country, wire your rails, and ship your apps, USSD code and portals from one platform. The hard, balanced-ledger plumbing already exists — you spend your time on go-to-market.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Buying PesaBridge
Can we start with part of the platform?
Yes. The Starter plan covers the customer and agent apps with the back office and KYC. Merchants, the developer API, USSD, lending, savings and bulk payments switch on later on the same ledger, so nothing is rebuilt as you grow.
How is PesaBridge priced?
Four ways: the Starter, Growth and Enterprise plans, or a Partnership in which you pay no licence fee and we share net revenue instead. The proposal builder on this site gives your exact price and a draft contract in about 10 minutes.
What do you need from us to launch?
A licence, or a licensed partner that holds the customer funds; accounts with the banks and payment providers you want to connect; your brand; and your tariffs. Once the provider credentials arrive, a first country usually goes live in 4 to 12 weeks.
Can we try it before we sign?
Yes. Request test access and you receive the Android apps for the products you pick, the web portals and test logins by email. Everything runs in a sandbox, so no real money moves. Developers can open a sandbox account on the developer portal at any time.
What support and training do you provide?
Every plan includes support: email on Starter, priority support on Growth, and a service-level agreement with onboarding on Enterprise. During the launch we train your back-office, support and agent-network teams, and the help hub, guides and API docs stay online for everyone.
The platform
Is PesaBridge a platform I share, or my own?
Your own. PesaBridge is a product BridgeERP resells — every operator gets their own deployment, branded and configured for them. No shared database, no shared super-admin.
Which countries and currencies are supported?
Any. Country, currency, language and KYC rules are configuration drawn from the full ISO set — not hardcoded. We have live markets today and stand up new ones without a rewrite.
Does it work on feature phones?
Yes. Over USSD, customers send, withdraw, pay bills, buy goods, buy airtime, check their balance and get a mini statement, settling on the same ledger as the apps.
Can I connect my own banks and payment rails?
Yes. Rails are pluggable adapters — banks, mobile money, cards and PSPs — so you connect only what your market needs.
How fast can we go live?
Weeks, not years. Configure your brand and country, wire your rails, then ship your apps, USSD code and web portals from one platform.
Is it secure and auditable?
Every movement is double-entry and balanced to zero, PIN- and KYC-gated, with signed webhooks and a full audit trail for regulators.
Which apps do operators and their customers get?
Six native Android and iOS apps: a User app for customers, a Send app for transfers abroad, an Agent / Super-agent app for cash-in, cash-out and float, a Merchant app to accept and settle, a Counter app for shop tills, and a Corporate app for bulk payouts with maker-checker approvals, which also runs as a web portal.
How does settlement and reconciliation work?
Funds settle to the relevant wallet in real time. Every transaction produces balanced ledger entries you can reconcile, with statements and exports, and a GL bridge for your accounting system.
Can it handle loans, savings and group finance?
Yes — overdraft credit, MFI loans with schedules and portfolio-at-risk, goal savings, and savings groups (chama / merry-go-round) are part of the platform and switch on per market.
Do you support bulk disbursement for payroll, aid or subsidies?
Yes. The Corporate portal and API run bulk disbursement to thousands of wallets with maker/checker approvals, payee books, scheduling and full reconciliation.
What does it take to run it day-to-day?
A single operator admin console runs brand, tariffs, KYC, the agent and merchant network, the ledger, reversals, support and KPIs — no code required for everyday operations.
Who owns the deployment and the data?
You do. Each operator runs their own deployment with their own database — branded and configured for them. It's a product you resell as your own, not a shared SaaS tenant.
Ready to launch your wallet?
Book a demo and we'll stand up your brand, country and rails — and walk you through the apps, admin and API.
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