There’s a growth tab which I believe may bring things like Safaricom Mali, and other products allowing you to invest, buy units etc. This includes a full statement of all recent transactions available on the homepage, your balance, and Fuliza limit, your monthly spend, your daily average and more, all seen in one glance.Īt the Home Screen there are swipe-able cards to see monthly cash-in and cash-out. Like with the M-Pesa for Business app, here the focus is on the data a customer will be able to access. If such an M-Pesa app as the one we are now seeing, was what they worked on at that time, it would be a whole different world right now. I called it a crazy, not-well-thought-out venture before it was later on terminated. Their idea revolved around a messaging app with M-Pesa built in. Years ago, there was the Safaricom Alpha team that tested out Bonga ( later called Zwwup!). And if that’s the case, then maybe the company’s partnership with VISA aimed at building solutions around M-Pesa has a lot in store, and we should be very excited.

However, perhaps finally the company is seeing the need of shifting M-Pesa from being tied to your physical SIM card to being a standalone app one can use anywhere around the world. Safaricom may remove this feature that allows the app to work without a SIM card, as we saw on the mySafaricom app. And it does this so well, including working even when the SIM card is removed. Unlike the mySafaricom App which wants to offer so much in one app, the M-Pesa App ( just called M-Pesa actually) focuses only on the M-Pesa platform. These are all the new things you get with the new App: M-PESA Only: It is meant to be a place you can easily see all the important data about how you use M-Pesa, bills you pay, people you send money to, and much more including detaching your mobile money wallet from your SIM card. However, the new M-Pesa app does so much more. So it might seem weird they already have another standalone M-Pesa app as this is already baked in on the mySafaricom App. Only a few weeks ago, Safaricom launched the new mySafaricom App. So if that’s an incentive to try it out, go ahead. Like really good! There’s also 1GB of free data for customers who install and sign in to the new App. It seems right now the app is open to the public, and it is really good. It was a new approach to M-Pesa bringing to the front-end insights on spending, direct access to statements, and much more. At the beginning of December 2020, I shared about Safaricom’s in-house testing of a new M-Pesa app.

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