Products

We provide a variety of communication and payments API products that are everything you need to build high impact mobile engagement solutions. Our platform allows to you work on building superior customer engagement experiences without the complexity that comes from working directly with mobile operators.

SMS

Engage easily and effectively with your customers through text messaging.

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Airtime

Incentivise or make micro payments to your users by instantly sending virtual airtime.

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USSD

Build real-time interactive text based solutions that can be accessed on every type of mobile phone.

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Voice

Enrich your users call experience by adding features that would be inaccessible using normal physical phone lines

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Transforming Customer Engagement through Voice

James Odede, a developer in Kenya built Voice Memo, a web application that allows you to build your own customer call center. Using Voice Memo, you can connect with customers using various channels including inbound, outbound Voice and SMS

Using our fully featured Voice API, James has been able to build a platform that supports many businesses who are looking to enhance their customer engagement experience.

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Other solutions using Africa’s Talking

Where developers learn and build

# import package import africastalking
#initialize SDK username = "YOUR_USERNAME"
# Initialize a service e.g. airtime airtime = africastalking.AIRTIME
# Use the service synchronously response = airtime.send([{
phoneNumber: "+2547XXXXXXXX",
amount: "KES 200"
}])
print(response)

AT Developers

Airtime 101 - Sending Airtime

In this tutorial, we'll send our first bit of airtime with a simple script. Buckle up!

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Developer Resources

We have curated a set of developer tools that will make it easier for you to learn how to work with our APIs. These resources will help you build faster and test your applications before you deploy them to your users.

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