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About Paysasa

Making payments safer
and easier across Africa

Paysasa helps everyday users and modern businesses collect, protect and pay out money with clarity: wallets, checkout, escrow, payment links, bulk payouts and APIs on one platform.

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The Paysasa team collaborating around a table in a bright office
Founded to make secure payments simple
Nairobi · Built for Africa

Our mission

We exist to make secure payments and safe commerce accessible to every modern business and everyday user in Africa. That means money that moves quickly, fees you can read, and a safety net when a deal goes wrong.

  • Clear fees, shown before you pay and after you are paid
  • Dependable settlement to the wallet you choose
  • Responsive human support, 24/7
  • Verification before checkout and withdrawals
A founder reviewing a payment dashboard with a colleague
Our story

From payment friction
to payment confidence

Paysasa began with a simple frustration: sending and receiving money across Africa was fast, but trusting the other side of the deal was not.

  • The problem. Merchants chased confirmations, buyers worried about delivery, and groups tracked savings in chat threads and spreadsheets.
  • The idea. One wallet-based platform where checkout, escrow, payouts and group money share the same ledger and the same trust badges.
  • The goal. Every merchant, platform and community, from a market stall to a fintech, runs on payments they can explain.

What we build

One platform, three layers that work together.

Wallets & checkout

Personal and business wallets, M-Pesa and card checkout, payment links, invoices and split payouts.

Escrow & trust

Escrow Safe Trade, KYC verification and Standard, Gold and Platinum badges that tell buyers who they can trust.

Payouts & APIs

Bulk payments, payroll, wallet-as-a-service, REST APIs and signed webhooks for platforms that build on us.

What we value

Six principles guide every product decision.

Clarity first

Every fee, balance and status is explained in plain language, before and after the payment.

Trust is the product

Verification, escrow, signed requests and audit trails are built in, not bolted on.

Dependable speed

Settlement and payouts that arrive when we say they will, with honest status when they do not.

People on the other end

Behind every transaction is a shop owner, a buyer or a treasurer. We design for them.

Built for Africa

M-Pesa, Paybill, USSD, low-cost phones and patchy networks are the starting point.

Support like a neighbour

Real people, reachable any time, who stay with a problem until it is solved.

Built for two kinds of people

The same account works for your personal money and your business.

Individuals

Hold and send money, save toward a goal with Lengo, track IOUs with Deni, run a chama and buy safely with escrow.

Businesses

Accept payments, issue invoices, pay staff and suppliers in bulk, run accounting and POS, and integrate with APIs.

Paysasa in numbers

99.9%platform uptime target
24/7human support
6ways to pay on every checkout
30+products on one wallet platform

Targets and figures are illustrative placeholders for launch.

Leadership team

The people accountable for your money, your data and your support.

AK

Amani Kariuki

Co-founder & CEO

Leads strategy, partnerships and the promise of clear fees and dependable settlement.

JM

Juma Mwangi

Co-founder & CTO

Owns the wallet ledger, APIs and the security model behind every payment.

NO

Neema Otieno

Head of Risk & Compliance

Runs KYC, fraud review and audit-ready trails for merchants and escrow trades.

SW

Sam Wafula

Head of Customer Success

Leads onboarding and 24/7 support so no payment is left unexplained.

Team profiles are placeholders for launch.

Trust, security and compliance

Trust is earned at every step. Merchants are verified before they can take payments or withdraw, and every sensitive action leaves a trail you can audit.

  • KYC and business verification before checkout and withdrawals
  • Gold and Platinum trust badges for proven merchants
  • Escrow Safe Trade with a human-reviewed dispute path
  • PINs, device checks, signed requests and event logs
  • Card data handled by PCI DSS compliant partners

Talk to us

Questions, partnerships or press? A real person will reply.

Email

General: [email protected]
Support: [email protected]

Phone

Call +254 700 000 000
Support is available around the clock.

Developers

Read the API documentation or ask for help integrating checkout, webhooks and wallets.

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