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Project owner's name :
Mr Mthunzi Njabulo
Mr Mthunzi Njabulo
Country of deployment for the project :
Botswana
Botswana
Sector :
E-commerce
E-commerce
What problem does your company want to solve? :
High levels of financial exclusion in the Botswana ecommerce space that excludes underbanked Batswana from participating in ecommerce/online shopping.
High levels of financial exclusion in the Botswana ecommerce space that excludes underbanked Batswana from participating in ecommerce/online shopping.
What solution does your company provide? :
An online payment plugin that enables ecommerce merchants in Botswana to accept online payments in hard cash through agents, thereby enabling their customers who do not have cards to buy online.
An online payment plugin that enables ecommerce merchants in Botswana to accept online payments in hard cash through agents, thereby enabling their customers who do not have cards to buy online.
Describe your project :
The current payment gateways in Botswana that enable online payments on ecommerce websites are slow, not user friendly, limited and require merchants to have a corporate bank account at selected banks and customers to have a international debit card issued by a bank. In addition, according to a study by the British research platform Merchant Machine, Botswana is not among the top countries with the largest unbanked population. This data indicates a huge opportunity promote financial inclusion to ecommerce merchants and consumers in Botswana who are currently excluded from accessing banking services. Sawasawa is an innovative, easy-to-install, online payments plugin that addresses this problem by providing online ecommerce websites in Botswana with a way to allow their customers to buy online in hard cash through agents, without the need for a bank account or a card.
The current payment gateways in Botswana that enable online payments on ecommerce websites are slow, not user friendly, limited and require merchants to have a corporate bank account at selected banks and customers to have a international debit card issued by a bank. In addition, according to a study by the British research platform Merchant Machine, Botswana is not among the top countries with the largest unbanked population. This data indicates a huge opportunity promote financial inclusion to ecommerce merchants and consumers in Botswana who are currently excluded from accessing banking services. Sawasawa is an innovative, easy-to-install, online payments plugin that addresses this problem by providing online ecommerce websites in Botswana with a way to allow their customers to buy online in hard cash through agents, without the need for a bank account or a card.