MTN mobile money is the easiest way of transferring funds and making payments for almost six million voice services users of MTN in Zambia. MTN mobile money accounts have lately grown to nearly four millions, highly surpassing the number of traditional bank accounts seen at only one million. Check out our guide and answers about using MTN mobile money!
Anyone who has a mobile money account can use the service to send a receive funds instantly, using a mobile phone. It only takes being subscribed with a mobile money account that is active and fully registered.
Most of the transactions are almost instant so the speed of the service is really fast. That’s one of the reasons why mtn mobile money has lately become so popular. Both the sender and the recipient are notified with a text message and an email when the transaction is finished. Due to regulations, sometimes the operator may ask for some more details by email.
In Zambia, only the national currency, Zambian Kwacha may be sent.
You can send up to 12,000K with a single transaction. Remember that the recipient needs to have the possibility to receive such amount. Sometimes it’s needed to reduce the account’s balance, so the transfer wouldn’t fail.
You need to enter full name of the person you’re sending money to. Make sure that the entered name is the same as the one on the recipient’s mobile money account so there would be no problems with processing the transaction.
Here you just need to enter the city where the person you’re sending money to is living.
That’s probably the most important thing you need to know, so make sure you won’t make a mistake while providing the account number while using mtn mobile money transfer. Double checking is always the best way to avoid a mistake. Also remember that the account you’re sending your money to must be fully registered and activated. The account numbers has 9 digits and MTN numbers always start with 96.
This number is used for receiving notifications when the transfer has been processed. This number may vary from the one used as the mtn mobile money account number.
You need to enter the reason of the transfer like „help for family”, „help for a friend” „purchase of goods”, „payment for services” or anything else that actually is the reason why your sending a mtn mobile money transfer.
Last but not least: always double check all the details of the transfer’s recipient. Once the transaction is made, it may be difficult to cancel or amend it. Make sure you won’t make a mistake while providing the data required to process the transaction.