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Mobile money, cards, wallets: unifying your payments

URBAN TECHNOLOGY· 22 May 2026· 6 min
Mobile money, cards, wallets: unifying your payments
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Africa is the continent of mobile money. MTN MoMo, Orange Money, Moov Money, Wave… not to mention Visa, Mastercard and the local wallets. For a merchant who wants to reach all of their customers, managing these channels separately is an operational nightmare.

The problem of fragmentation

Every separate payment integration means weeks of development, a contract, technical documentation, an API key, a distinct dashboard and a specific reconciliation process. Multiply that by ten operators and you end up with a fragile architecture that is costly to maintain and hard to audit.

The aggregation hub model

UrbanPay works as a hub: a single integration, a single API, a single dashboard. Underneath, we manage the connections with every operator. Your technical team integrates once, your finance department reconciles in a single tool. When a new operator is added to the catalogue, you have nothing to redevelop.

UrbanPay cuts integration time from several months to a few days, and maintenance cost from several full-time employees to zero.

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Frequently asked questions

Why unify several mobile money operators?+
To collect from every customer without multiplying integrations, reconcile in one place and absorb an operator outage. WAEMU counted 248 million accounts in 2024 (BCEAO).
Do you need a licence to aggregate payments?+
Issuing electronic money is regulated by the BCEAO. You therefore rely on licensed institutions rather than issuing it yourself.
How long does it take to integrate a solution like UrbanPay?+
A few days for a standard site: connect an API, test in the sandbox, then go live.

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