Comments on: Thoughts on Ecommerce Problems in Africa

By: josee

josee — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:06:48 +0000

i think there is also an issue of security.If you approach many kenyans especially us the common mwananchi with even an atm card idea.It puts people off.Only mpesa can save us.If you interested in my idea for transactions with mpesa just email me at kimkan20@yahoo.com

By: Felix

Felix — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:20:27 +0000

Kudos, monyMickle. ‘ve been checking your payment transact process and even though it’s the beginning it looks promising. Anyways, I wanted to implore to you that you add a feature speck where by we can create our custom ‘Buy Now’ button.
Also I believe tulipe.co.ke is an up coming payment system online (Check it Out)

By: Martin Muckle

Martin Muckle — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:32:33 +0000

http://www.monyamickle.com is soon to launch in Kenya. This is a payment gateway that accepts funds via Safaricom Pay Bill. Pay Bill is similar to Mpesa as far as senders are concerned but the money sent resides in a Safaricom account, not on the recipient’s mobile phone.

Once a user has loaded their Mony a Mickle account they will be able to use the credits to shop online where Mony a Mickle is accepted. shopping cart plugins are being created for OSCommerce (available) and Joomla’s Virtuemart. This will allow anyone to set up on online shop free of charge. No bank account or credit card required

By: Clifford

Clifford — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:32:06 +0000

Lets hope things look more promising when the new cable arrives. South Africa has lots of growing still to do. But something like this is needed for us.

By: Felix

Felix — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:44:42 +0000

E-commerce is good for Kenyans, bt whre ‘ve we reached in implementing this. Kenyans only ‘ve Visa electrons a mini card of the original Visa to purchase online only. Receiving payments is a big problem, with online transact process such as Pay pal, Google co, TrialPay, don’t operate in Kenya hence makins sales online becomes cumbersome. 2co operates worldwide bt payments are made monthly…We blub so much and do too little. To me Mpesa should be more like Kenyan Pay pal, What do you think?

By: Online Shopping

Online Shopping — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:03:32 +0000

Something like this is needed in South Africa. Many people can simply not buy online for lack of a credit card or online banking facilities. FNB’s Cell Pay Point is one excellent service aimed at the average man. Lets hope other banks take note, expand and make this available to all..

By: Bernard

Bernard — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:07:31 +0000

Very interesting. We run a ecommerce solution company in South Africa, and we found that one of the main barriers to online shopping is the payment gateway. I have felt for a while now that if you could have a mobile phone payment gateway, this would open up the world of ecommerce for the ordinary person, and it would drastically expand the market for ecommerce sites. It can surely only be a matter of time before some mobile service provider realises this…?

By: Thoughts on Ecommerce Problems in Africa at A Beginnings End

Thoughts on Ecommerce Problems in Africa at A Beginnings End — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:23:39 +0000

[…] Thoughts on Ecommerce Problems in Africa Brian Longwe talks about the beginnings of this with Mpesa, emails are bouncing around between companies I know, and last week I spent a morning listening in to what the Kenya ICT Board and Federation had to say about it. … […]

By: Kirima

Kirima — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:31:49 +0000

Very intersting developments I hope the easyswitch concept can extend to other countries its totally brilliant. i agree with sijui that we don’t have to wait till everyone is technologically savy (don’t think this is possible even in developed countries) before we roll out such technologies. The biggest problem for ecommerce in Kenya is a reliable and universally accepted payment platform. So far its only few banks that offer international accepted credit cards that can be used to buy stuff on the net.

By: Sijui

Sijui — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:52:33 +0000

http://www.aplitec.co.za/……just found out Net 1 Technologies who are the developers of the system are Proudly South African….good for them!