Mobile Money Payment Toolkit for Utility Service Providers

Categories : Mobile money & mobile technology, Technology and Operational Enablers

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Author: GSMA

Today, utility service providers are delivering essential services to communities. Increasingly, the use of mobile money payment solutions is becoming widespread in utility services. In September 2016, for example, over 1.6 million mobile money transactions were generated by pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar energy services. However, one of the main challenges for PAYG utility service providers is integration with mobile money platforms. This is not yet seamless and has slowed down the pace at which PAYG utility service providers can deploy mobile money payment solutions. This Mobile Money Payment Toolkit is for utility service providers who would like to adopt mobile money payment solutions. It provides guidelines for pay-as-you-go service providers on if, when and how to approach integration with a mobile money platform. This toolkit focuses on questions utility service providers should consider before deploying mobile money payments Note that this is not a step-by-step guide to technical integration.