Safaricom Unveils New M-PESA Payment Tools

Safaricom has introduced new payment capabilities for M-PESA users, allowing for transactions via QR code scanning, smartphone tapping, or artificial intelligence-powered auto-fill.

Streamlined Payment Solutions

The new features, developed in partnership with Pesapal, aim to reduce transaction errors and enhance speed and convenience for shoppers and businesses.

• Scan-to-Pay enables buyers to scan a QR code on a merchant’s card machine, auto-populating payment details.
• Tap-to-Pay allows users with NFC-enabled smartphones to make contactless payments by touching their devices to Pesapal POS terminals.
• AI Pay, integrated into the My OneApp, uses AI to extract payment information from receipts, populating the relevant M-PESA PayBill or Till details.

Source: Nairobi Wire. AI-assisted summary.