APIs

Kenyan insurtech providing an insurance API and platform that lets businesses embed and distribute digital insurance products, issue policies and process claims. Aimed at partners bundling cover into their own apps and services across African markets. API documentation is hosted behind an authenticated developer portal.

South Africa headquartered cryptocurrency exchange offering a REST API for account, wallet and trading operations plus a streaming WebSocket feed for market and order updates. Lets developers access market data, place orders and move crypto and fiat programmatically. Widely used across African and international markets.

[ingest-scout] Developer API platform from MNotify (now BMS — Bulk Messaging Solution), a Ghana-specific messaging company (Ghana phone number +233 54 150 9394 confirmed in search results; page header reads 'MNotify Ghana'). Fetched readthedocs.mnotify.com (formerly developer.mnotify.com, which 301-redirects to developer.bms.africa) and confirmed live documentation for SMS, Voice, USSD, and IVR REST APIs using API-key authentication. Active Shopify app listed and LinkedIn page confirms Ghana HQ. Not in registry; fills Ghana telecom/messaging API gap distinct from Arkesel.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

MTN Mobile Money developer platform exposing Collections (Get Paid), Disbursements (Pay), Remittances and account APIs across MTN's African markets. Offers a self-service sandbox and documentation, with production access approved per country. MTN MoMo is one of the largest mobile money networks on the continent.

[ingest-scout] B2B payout API from NALA, a Bank of Tanzania-licensed PSP, enabling programmatic disbursements to 11 African markets with 99.3% delivery within one hour (per published SLA). Docs publicly accessible and fetched this run; API launched 2024 (TechCrunch-confirmed) and currently in closed-beta phase (registration by invitation). Meaningful Pan-African payout infrastructure distinct from existing remittance and mobile-money entries.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-founded pan-African payments platform with live Mobile Money APIs in Cameroon (MTN, Orange), Côte d'Ivoire (Wave), Senegal (Wave, Orange, Free), Kenya (M-Pesa), Uganda (Airtel), and Ghana (MTN). Developer portal confirmed live with Direct API, SDK, and no-code checkout — distinct from the PHP SDK (notchpay-php) already in the registry; this is the core API product itself.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Cameroon-headquartered payment gateway covering Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal; accepts MTN Mobile Money, Orange Money, Mastercard, Visa, and bank transfers via RESTful API. Live developer docs confirmed at developer.notchpay.co with API reference updated January 2026, mobile money endpoint, SDKs for PHP/Node/JS, and sandbox. Fills a Francophone West Africa gap — the registry has notchpay-php (the PHP SDK) but not the platform API itself.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Orange's official API on its developer portal for accepting online payments through Orange Money mobile wallets. Covers 11 African countries including Mali, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Senegal, Madagascar, Guinea, Sierra Leone and DR Congo, with customers validating purchases via a USSD one-time password. Integration requires an Orange partner agreement.

[ingest-scout] Malawi's leading payment gateway, PSP-licensed by the Reserve Bank of Malawi in 2024; fetched developer.paychangu.com/docs/welcome and confirmed live documentation covering cards, mobile money, bank transfers, and Malawi-specific bills (Escom electricity, MRA taxes, DStv). Only Malawian payment infrastructure candidate — fills a geography Wycord has zero coverage of.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Malawi's leading payment gateway API supporting mobile money (Airtel, TNM), bank transfers, and cards — the first instant bank-transfer API for Malawian merchants. Live developer docs confirmed at developer.paychangu.com with Inline/Standard checkout, disbursements, utility bill payments (Escom, DStv), and Python/Go SDKs on GitHub. Fills a complete gap: Malawi has no coverage in the registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Malawi's leading payment gateway — first in the country to launch an instant bank-transfer API for merchants (July 2025). Supports mobile money, card, bank transfer, airtime, and utility bill payments (Escom, MASM) in MWK; Python, Go, and PHP SDKs on GitHub, WooCommerce plugin available. Live docs confirmed at developer.paychangu.com. Malawi is entirely absent from the current registry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

Senegalese payment platform offering online collection and disbursement across francophone West Africa via mobile money and cards. Provides a REST API, hosted checkout, invoices and a SoftPay integration, documented on its developer site. Serves Senegal plus neighbouring markets such as Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso and Mali.

[ingest-scout] Zimbabwe's primary payment gateway developer hub supporting EcoCash, Telecash, Zimswitch, Visa, and Mastercard with official SDKs in PHP, Node.js, Java, Python, and .NET. URL returns 403 (bot/WAF protection) but infrastructure is confirmed live via the active GitHub org (github.com/paynow, 12 repos, recent activity) and Google-indexed quickstart pages. Would be Zimbabwe's first registry entry.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

African payment gateway serving merchants across South Africa, Mauritius and other regional markets with a Payments API, checkout, payment links, mobile SDKs and point-of-sale devices. Supports cards and multiple alternative payment methods behind a single integration. Documentation is published on its developer hub.

Nigerian payments and collections platform (by SystemSpecs) whose Collections API lets billers generate a Remita Retrieval Reference (RRR), take payments across channels and check transaction status. Widely used for government and enterprise collections in Nigeria. Developer documentation and API assistant are published on its developer site.

[ingest-scout] South African payment orchestration platform giving merchants a single PCI-compliant API to route across 70+ payment methods including DebiCheck; fetched docs.reviopay.com and confirmed live docs with Swagger reference at gate.reviopay.com/api/ and webhook management. Adds an orchestration layer to Wycord's South Africa section (Yoco, Stitch, Ozow are point-solutions, not orchestrators).

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] Tanzania's largest payment infrastructure operator (20,000+ merchants) with REST APIs for utility payments (LUKU electricity, GEPG government portal, water, TV, telecom top-up), wallet transfers, bank disbursements via Qwiksend, virtual card network, e-commerce checkout, and international money transfers. Fetched live this run with full reference docs, multi-language SDKs (PHP, Java, Python, Node.js, C#), and WordPress plugin integration.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

[ingest-scout] South Africa's widely-used QR payment platform developer API covering QR code generation, payment status queries, and cash-up period management with code examples in JS, Python, Ruby, PHP, C#, and Java. Fetched live this run with full REST documentation and e-commerce integrations (WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, PayGate); base URL pos.snapscan.io confirms active production service. Not yet in the registry despite broad SA merchant adoption.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.

South African cryptocurrency exchange (licensed FSP 53308) providing a REST API for trading and a WebSocket service for streaming market, order and balance updates. Supports buying and selling 60-plus cryptocurrencies and withdrawing both crypto and fiat programmatically. API keys require account 2FA to be enabled.

Developer API from Wave, the mobile money operator dominant in Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire, for collecting payments, sending payouts and running bulk disbursements in FCFA. Provides checkout sessions, a sandbox and API-key management through the Wave Business portal. API access is granted to approved Wave Business accounts rather than fully self-service.

[ingest-scout] Kampala-based fintech API covering virtual and physical Visa card issuance, mobile money transfers, bank payments (26 Ugandan banks), bill payments, airtime distribution, and payment collection across East Africa. Fetched live this run showing auth, products, cards, and accounts API sections; token-based auth (60-min TTL) with production endpoints at api.xente.co. Would be Uganda's 4th registry resource.

Imported from a community submission, needs review.