The currency of your bundles
You set your prices in the currency of the zone's country: FCFA in Douala, naira in Lagos, shillings in Nairobi. The portal, the app and the sales history all show the same currency, the zone's own.
Thirteen countries, eleven currencies, the payments people use at home
WiNet is open in the African countries where a WiFi voucher can be paid for without a bank card: with the mobile money, USSD code or instant transfer people already use every day. Here is the list, and what actually changes from one country to the next.
The criterion
A country is served when people can pay there without a bank
A WiFi voucher costs the equivalent of a few cents. At that price, requiring a bank card means selling nothing at all: cards are rare, they cost money to use, and nobody pulls one out for two hours of connection at the junction.
So we only open a country once a local, everyday payment method exists — an operator's mobile money, a USSD code, an instant transfer. That criterion, and nothing else, produced this list of thirteen countries. A country where only cards work is not on it, even though adding it would be technically possible.
The same logic applies to you, the manager: your balance is paid out to the number you already use, not to a bank account you would have to open.
- The end customer pays with the money on their phone.
- You are paid on that same number, with no bank account.
- Prices show in the currency of the zone's country.
- The portal speaks the visitor's language, not yours.
- Nothing upfront, no subscription, wherever the zone is.
The list
The thirteen countries and their payment methods
In alphabetical order. The currency shown is the one bundles are sold in for a zone located in that country.
| Country | Selling currency | Local payment methods |
|---|---|---|
| Burkina Faso | CFA franc (XOF) | Orange Money, Mobicash |
| Cameroon | CFA franc (XAF) | MTN Mobile Money, Orange Money |
| Côte d'Ivoire | CFA franc (XOF) | MTN MoMo, Orange Money, Wave |
| Ghana | Ghanaian cedi (GHS) | MTN, Telecel and Airtel mobile money |
| Kenya | Kenyan shilling (KES) | M-Pesa |
| Malawi | Malawian kwacha (MWK) | Mobile money |
| Nigeria | Naira (NGN) | USSD, bank transfer, NQR, eNaira, Opay |
| Rwanda | Rwandan franc (RWF) | Airtel Money, MTN MoMo |
| Senegal | CFA franc (XOF) | Orange Money, Free Money, Wave |
| South Africa | South African rand (ZAR) | Bank account, 1voucher |
| Tanzania | Tanzanian shilling (TZS) | Airtel, Tigo, Halopesa |
| Uganda | Ugandan shilling (UGX) | Airtel Money, MTN MoMo |
| Zambia | Zambian kwacha (ZMW) | Airtel Money, MTN MoMo, Zamtel |
What this table says, and what it does not
It says what people pay with in each country. It does not say a zone is already open there: the service rolls out country by country, and the first active zones currently collect through mobile money and bank cards. If no zone is open near you yet, email us — we bring the local methods online with you, zone by zone, before you sell anything.
In practice
What changes from one country to the next
The product is the same everywhere: same app, same portal, same MikroTik router. Four things, though, follow the zone's country.
Decimals, or the lack of them
The CFA franc, the Rwandan franc and the Ugandan shilling have no subunit: prices there are whole numbers. The naira, the cedi, the Kenyan and Tanzanian shillings, the kwacha and the rand have two decimals. WiNet applies each currency's rule without you having to think about it.
The methods offered to the customer
The portal only shows what exists where the zone is: M-Pesa in Kenya, Airtel and MTN in Rwanda, USSD and bank transfer in Nigeria, bank accounts in South Africa. No button that leads nowhere.
The portal's language
The page your customer sees exists in English, French and Swahili. It picks one on its own from the visitor's phone, and a small switcher lets them change it. Nine of the thirteen countries served are English-speaking, which is where this matters most.
Languages
Who speaks what, today
A platform spanning thirteen countries cannot get by in one language. Here is where things stand, with no embellishment.
- The WiFi portal, the only page the paying customer sees: English, French and Swahili, picked automatically from their phone.
- The Manager app and the admin console: English and French.
- This site: English and French. Write to us in either one.
Country questions
Can I run zones in several countries from one account?+
No. A manager account is tied to one country, and all its zones sit there: otherwise your balance would be adding naira to CFA francs, which means nothing. If you operate zones in two countries, you need one account per country. Tell us and we will help you set them up.
Which currency are my bundles sold in?+
The currency of the zone's country, with no conversion. You enter "500" and your customer sees 500 in their own currency. There is no exchange rate to watch and no amount that shifts between the portal and your history.
Why only thirteen countries, and not all of Africa?+
Because a voucher worth a few cents needs a local, everyday payment method to sell at all. Where only bank cards work, the product would not stand up: we would rather not open the country than let you discover the problem after the router is installed.
My country is not on the list. What can I do?+
Contact us with the country and the payment method your customers actually use. That is how the list grows: through a local payment method that exists, not through good intentions.
Does the hardware change from country to country?+
No. It is the same MikroTik router running RouterOS everywhere, with the same enrolment procedure. Only the power supply and the quality of the local internet link make a difference — see the setup guide.
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