APIs

Nigerian VTU/bill-payment platform with a RESTful API (JWT bearer auth) for buying/reselling airtime, data, electricity, cable TV (DStv/GOtv/Startimes), betting-account funding and recharge-card (ePIN) printing. Provides wallet-balance, variation, verification, requery and webhook endpoints.

Ghanaian payment gateway offering Merchant, Merchant Direct, Tokenization and Invoice APIs for card + mobile money; official PHP SDK on GitHub, 4-language SDK coverage claimed.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on developer portal (4 API products), GitHub org expresspaygh/expresspay-php-sdk public, Devex org listing independently confirms entity/country. See docs/scout/ghana-candidates.md.

Kenyan payment-gateway API (C2B, B2B, B2C, STK Push, Billing) covering Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Togo, DRC. Correct docs host is dev.ipayafrica.com — docs.ipayafrica.com is unconfigured and /developers on the main site 404s.

Scout-verified 2026-08-14: curl 200 on main site + dev.ipayafrica.com sub-pages, both wrong docs URLs confirmed dead (403/404) before settling on the right one, WebSearch confirms founders/2010 founding/CBK authorization. See docs/scout/kenya-candidates.md.

[ingest-scout] Official Airtel Money developer portal covering Collections and Disbursements (payroll, refunds, cross-border transfers) across 14 African markets including Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Niger, DRC, Burkina Faso, and Côte d'Ivoire, using OAuth 2.0. Confirmed live via Airtel press release, API tracker (apitracker.io), and multiple independent integration guides published in 2025–2026; sandbox at openapiuat.airtel.africa.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Ethiopian fintech offering a payment gateway API for collecting payments across multiple local methods, based in Addis Ababa. Provides a developer portal with sandbox and production environments and bank-grade security. Enables businesses to build checkout and payment flows for the Ethiopian market.

[ingest-scout] Cross-border FX and payment API for African markets (and Europe), formerly known as BitPesa and TransferZero, enabling programmatic fund sending and receiving across African corridors including ZAR. Fetched live this run showing copyright 2026 and full documentation covering authentication, SDKs, transaction creation, recipient validation, and webhook monitoring; active OpenAPI spec also available at specification.transferzero.com.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Tanzania's largest payment gateway API covering all major mobile wallets (Tigopesa, AirtelMoney, M-Pesa), cards, and banks in Tanzania and Rwanda from a single REST endpoint. Interactive docs with sandbox, Flutter/Golang/WooCommerce SDKs confirmed live at azampay.com/developers; Python wrapper actively maintained on GitHub (Neurotech-HQ/azampay). Tanzania has no payment coverage in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Communication platform originating in Tanzania that offers SMS, OTP, USSD, airtime and voice APIs for reaching customers across Africa. Its SMS API sends to numbers in more than 22 regions with delivery reports, backed by documentation and sample code. Beem states coverage of 150-plus mobile networks and ISO 27001 compliance.

Pan-African payment aggregator founded by a former Orange executive that lets merchants accept mobile money and card payments from multiple carriers through a single contract and API. Exposes Mobile Money, Merchant Payment and card APIs documented on its developer portal and Postman workspace, with 3DS filtering on card transactions. Focused on West and Central African markets.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-focused mobile money payment gateway API (launched January 2021 by Takwid Group) supporting MTN Mobile Money and Orange Money Cameroon. Python SDK on GitHub (CamPay/campay-python-sdk), Android SDK, Postman API docs, and WooCommerce plugin all confirmed live. Fills the gap as the domestic Cameroonian payment API — distinct from Notch Pay which is a multi-country aggregator.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Ethiopian payment service provider offering a developer API to accept payments, run transfers, create virtual accounts and manage transactions. Supports local Ethiopian payment methods and mobile wallets with a hosted checkout and REST API. One of the leading online payment gateways in Ethiopia.

African payment gateway founded in 2016 offering collection and money transfer via mobile money and bank cards (Visa, Mastercard) across francophone markets. Provides direct API, hosted checkout and SDKs in JavaScript, Python, Go, Flutter and PHP. Headquartered in Cote d'Ivoire and serving multiple West and Central African countries.

[ingest-scout] South African credit bureau REST API suite covering identity verification against the Department of Home Affairs, bank account verification, AML/PEP sanctions screening, CIPC company search, FaceTec biometric checks, and affordability assessments. Developer Hub confirmed live with Swagger tool and API Manager; processes millions of API calls monthly for SA banks and insurers. Fills the South Africa KYC/credit data gap in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Uganda-headquartered multi-country payments API (founded 2015) covering 15 African nations — mobile money across Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and others; bank transfers in South Africa and Nigeria. Sandbox and production endpoints confirmed live at developer.dusupay.com; one of the broadest East+West Africa coverage gateways not yet in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Rwanda-based fintech aggregator (Central Bank of Rwanda licensed PSP) connecting developers to telecom operators, banks, utilities, and government services across Rwanda, Malawi, and Zambia via a single REST API — covers mobile money, bulk SMS, USSD, airtime, utility payments, and tax remittances. Built since 2013 by Future Dynamic Innovations; processes 30B+ transactions annually. Developer portal confirmed live; Rwanda, Malawi, and Zambia are underrepresented in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Official developer portal for Telebirr, Ethio Telecom's mobile money platform serving 44M+ users in Ethiopia. Provides sandbox testing, API reference, sample code, video tutorials, and In-App SDK for integrating payments, STK push, and mandate-based transactions. Portal confirmed live at developer.ethiotelecom.et with Postman workspace also published. Ethiopia is a major gap in the registry — only Chapa (a third-party gateway) is currently listed.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Ugandan cross-border payments API covering 18 African markets including Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Zambia, with mobile money + bank rails and stablecoin (USDC/USDT) funding. Full REST API docs live at eversend.readme.io with PHP SDK on GitHub and batch disbursement endpoint confirmed operational.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Payment API for francophone Africa that lets businesses collect funds and pay out to mobile money accounts through payment links, hosted pages and direct API integration. Built for markets where mobile money is dominant, with SDKs and a developer sandbox. Headquartered in Benin.

Francophone Africa payment infrastructure that unifies mobile money, bank transfer, card and crypto rails behind a single Pay-In and Pay-Out API. Operates across nine West and Central African countries including Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Niger, Guinea and Togo, aggregating providers such as Wave, Orange, MTN and Moov. Often described as the Stripe for francophone Africa.

API marketplace from Interswitch, one of Africa's largest digital payment infrastructure companies, exposing Quickteller and payment services for airtime, bill payments to 3000-plus billers, bank transfers, wallet and virtual card management. APIs are RESTful with JSON requests and require a developer console account with client credentials. Headquartered in Nigeria with pan-African reach.

[ingest-scout] KCB Group's official developer portal for Kenya, regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya (footer confirmed 'Regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya © 2026 KCB Buni'). Fetched buni.kcbgroup.com and confirmed four live API categories: Send Money (M-PESA, Airtel Money, T-Kash, VOOMA, bank transfers), Receive Payments, Interoperability (billers/merchants/agents), and Account Services, with a sandbox at sandbox.buni.kcbgroup.com/devportal/apis. Not in registry; fills the Kenya commercial-bank open-API gap.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Egypt-focused PCI DSS Level 1 payment gateway supporting cards, mobile wallets, bank QR transfers, installment plans, and marketplace connected-accounts; developer portal confirmed at developers.kashier.io via search results; API capabilities verified by fetching official Kashier blog post (kashier.io/blog-posts/kashier-api) which documents hosted pages, iFrame, and direct API integration. Adds a fourth distinct Egyptian payment infrastructure provider not yet in Wycord.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Payment aggregation platform operated by Open SI SAS, a registered IT services company in the Republic of Benin, that enables merchants to accept electronic payments in person and online. Offers a web and mobile widget plus a developer API and documentation. Serves Benin and neighbouring francophone markets.

[ingest-scout] Kenya-focused mobile money collection API for M-Pesa STK Push, Buygoods, B2B transfers, payment links, and disbursements; fetched api-docs.kopokopo.com and confirmed live documentation with distinct sandbox (sandbox.kopokopo.com) and production endpoints. A major Kenyan developer tool absent from Wycord — complements Safaricom's raw Daraja API with a higher-level collection workflow.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.