The mobile penetration has increased multifold in the past few years in Sierra Leone. Undoubtedly this has been one of the important reasons for its growth in the last few years. As per statistics, 79% percent of the population had access to mobile phones in 2019 compared to 55% in 2017, showing a lot has changed in the last couple of years.
Moreover, people have found a good medium in mobile phones to do various activities of communication, and social networking. But still, only a small percent of users use digital mediums for making payments and are largely dependent on cash.
Understanding Digital Wallets
Digital wallets or let's say mobile wallets allow you to store cash in digital form and is the best medium to make online payments. The only thing you need is a bank account and the money transfer will get a hell lot easier. Simply add money to your wallet through cards, online banking or any other payment bank and you are all set to transfer money to anyone anywhere in the world.
Benefits of having a Mobile Wallet
• With a digital mobile wallet, there is no need to be dependent on cash for everything.
• Mobile Wallets are the best way to do orange online recharge or any other recharge and bill payments whether it is for shopping, Recharging phones, or TV or literally anything else.
• Single touch payment option in mobile wallets without requiring bank details.
• Send payments to anyone in the world whether it is for online recharge purpose or anyone of your relatives need some urgent money.
EziPay- A Simple and Easy Method to Make Payments
After serving in 10+ countries, and facilitating more than $100,000 transactions every day, EziPay is finally launched in Sierra Leone a month ago. Launched with an aim to make digital payments easy and affordable, EziPay SL wallet/app has a lot of great features. Here are some important features of this EziPay wallet:
• Ezipay SL allows one to easily recharge online through its top-up services for various mobile networks like Orange, Africell, etc.
• Transfer payments to and from wallet to bank account.
• Users can make a request to send or receive payments with ease.
• Recharge or receive international payments.
• List yourself as a merchant and enjoy partnerships.
The best way to grow as an economy is to improve cash flow and payment wallets like EziPay and others are the best way to do that. Undoubtedly it does not replace cash but it surely will help people to make their money safe and transactions fast, secure and easy.
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Why You Should Have a Mobile Wallet in Sierra Leone?
Randomjust an explaination as to why you should opt for Ezipay in Sierra Leone.