Thus Spaketh Idd Salim

Safaricom M-Pesa becomes developer friendly

by on Feb.25, 2010, under Coding, PayPal and Africa, Symbiotic, Zunguka

MpesaKenyan coders are all smiles. The real die-hards like Kasomo and Salim cant stand up OK because the erection that the new Mpesa move generates has taken all the blood from the legs. We have been waiting for this. Now it is Here! With one blow of the keyboard, The Mighty Safaricom (not to be confused with the satanic Safaricon), have finally made our wishes come true.

We, at Symbiotic, can now finalize our ZungukaPay payment gateway and overtake all the wannabes in the market.

“What has Safaricom done, Salim?!!”, You ask

Well, something they should have done even before Semenya started growing hard Female nipples. Safaricom, of late, have decided to attach the Number of the Money Sender and Money receiver in the M-Pesa mReceipt. How simple is that, to the un-educated eye!! How cool is that to payment gateways developers!!

Maybe, even the guys at Safaricom did it accidentally, but let me not spoil this post.

Now I will have to re-do the payment modules I had done for TumaSMS, Sembuse, Sovaya and Zunguka… But I aint complaining.

Now I have a clear and valid reason to apply for a Safaricom Mpesa Business Account.

I will blog once the payment gateway is done.

Kudos Safaricom!

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  • http://www.sebastianwafula.com/ sebastian wafula

    been there done that so there's no need to re-invent the wheel

  • http://www.kachwanya.com/ kachwanya

    The best news ever from Safaricom
    Now there is no reason why e commerce can't take off in Kenya in a big way,
    At Maduqa.com, we are very excited too, holla once the payment system is complete

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