With active mobile subscribers averaging about 200 million users monthly, Nigeria’s mobile market is one of Africa’s largest telecom service opportunities.
However, to unlock the vast potential of this emerging telco market, developer teams need a reliable Nigeria mobile recharge API to bridge the gap between their products and prospective end users.
A top airtime top up API should serve as a true, complete gateway.
Ideally, this means removing all the hassles typically related with connecting to mobile operators by making the process faster, easier and more efficient.
In Nigeria, these hurdles can be daunting — including overcoming labyrinthine regulations, establishing numerous telco agreements, and ensuring reliable transfers to Nigeria mobile users.
When sourcing a reliable Nigeria mobile recharge API, veteran developers typically know what to expect. They look out for APIs that are:
- Easy to integrate, knowing that less coding leads to fewer errors
- Scalable with customisable features
- Equipped with extensive API documentation
- Designed to enable access to all airtime variables through one endpoint
Unfortunately, most API products out there today fall short of these minimum requirements.
Developers are then left frustrated with the available options, often leaving them unable to establish the type of solid connections to Nigerian telcos needed to build a business.
Alternatively, they might have to resort to costly, error-prone solutions. Not only is the use of such platforms excruciating, but the costs also outweigh the value gained.
Fortunately, Reloadly has created an airtime top-up API software that serves all the needs of developers looking to access Nigeria. Beyond possessing the prerequisite technology, Reloadly has developed more advanced yet easier-to-use features for developers — and we continue to expand them.
This is because Reloadly’s airtime top-up API is specially designed with developers in mind.
In particular, we aim to enable developers to access hundreds of millions of users across the four major Nigerian mobile networks with super ease and at affordable rates.
Our platform is structured to help you glide through every process seamlessly; as an airtime aggregator, we have already covered every aspect from negotiation to integration.
The only step you need to take is to register for your free API key and get connected in minutes.
Reloadly offers speedy transfers of airtime and data recharges throughout Nigeria’s mobile operator network, including:
- MTN
- Glo
- Airtel
- 9Mobile
By integrating Reloadly’s API, you can enable airtime transactions to Nigeria in under 5 seconds. Furthermore, you’ll also benefit from attractive discounts.
For MTN, your customers can currently get a 3% discount.
For Glo, your customers can get a 5% discount.
For Airtel, your customers can get a 4% discount.
Full information for all pricing and discounts to Nigerian telcos can be found here.
You can decide to conduct transactions in the Nigerian naira or any other currency.
Furthermore, with the Reloadly airtime API, your business will not only get access to the entire network of mobile operators in Nigeria, but also more than 750 operators across the world.
Besides the great software experience, affordability and extensive API documentation, Reloadly’s API offers some crucial solutions that fast-growing businesses need in order to smoothly start operating in Nigeria quickly.
Instead of businesses trying to connect directly to Nigerian telcos, Reloadly does all the heavy lifting — working around regulations, connecting directly with telcos and providing a cloud-based solution.
In truth, without software that removes these hurdles, truly developing access to Nigerian telcos can be a daunting mission.
Let’s see why that is and how Reloadly helps solve them.
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1. First, A Nigeria Mobile Recharge API Must Remove Regulatory Bottlenecks
Nigeria’s telecommunications sector is controlled by the National Communications Commission (NCC), a body that stipulates the conditions and requirements for activities by or with mobile operators.
The use of mobile money and other mobile-based services requires approval from this regulatory body. Therefore, every company that offers value-added services (VAS) must be licensed by the NCC.
Apart from the approval from the NCC, businesses looking to connect via telcos in Nigeria might have to secure other licenses for the particular type of activity you want to carry out.
Mobile Money Operators (MMOs) and International Money Transfer Operators (IMTOs) in Nigeria have to be registered with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), for instance. Unlicensed operators could face closures and stiff penalties
With Reloadly, however, you don’t have any of these worries.
Reloadly has secured the appropriate licenses and approvals for you to execute your business.
Since we have conducted due diligence in ensuring compliance with all regulatory provisions, all you have to do is key into our API and carry on with your business.
2. Direct Partnerships with Nigeria’s Top Mobile Operators
Rather than having to connect with the four top Nigerian network operators one after the other, our airtime top-up connects you to them all at once.
Proposing a partnership with one mobile operator is a Herculean task. (Trust us!)
A business needs to identify the key contacts in the network operator, identify the best way to approach them and eventually propose an agreement.
This is a lot of work. Now imagine having to do it across all of the top four Nigerian airtime operators.
Fortunately, you don’t even have to imagine that. We have already done the work for you, so you just have to key in through our dashboard.
Reloadly has secured partnerships with the MTN, Glo, Airtel and 9 mobile, and you can access them all via one endpoint.
3. Reliable Technical Integration with Nigerian Telcos
Aside from the business aspect of connecting to telcos, technical integration is often a complex process for both the network provider and the partnering business.
The integration process can be time-consuming — the negotiations and technical processes involved can expend lots of resources.
Another aspect is the technical integration with the telcos. Developers might face problems in the integration process, and telcos technicians might be quite unhelpful.
With Reloadly’s API, you can get integrated with all Nigerian network providers with a few lines of code.
These few lines of code replace the effort, time and money that would have been expended in negotiations and integration processes with the individual telcos, and you can do all that through your personalised dashboard.
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4. Accessible with a No-Contract Account
Reloadly’s API is a pay-as-you-use solution.
Developers are completely unfettered by subscription fees, contract obligations, minimum commitments and other contractual conditions.
In other words, you only pay for what transactions are executed.
Furthermore, since we know that full access to our cloud-based Nigeria mobile recharge API software serves you best, we have also enabled free access to our documentation and sandbox to improve your experience.
5. Zero-fee Mobile Top-ups, Flexible Pricing Models and Open Range Values
Reloadly offers zero-fee remittances to over 140 countries, including Nigeria.
In addition, you can also select your preferred pricing model and a price range allowed by the network provider.
For international transfers to Nigeria — including from busy corridors such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Italy — you can select a pricing model based on your preferred currency.
With over 100 currencies open to you in your dashboard, you can hold, exchange and transact any of them, including in naira.
Reloadly offers limitless value, you can make transfers of value within the minimum and maximum values allowed by the network provider.
6. Speed and Automation
Speed is crucial, whether you’re using mobile top-ups for remittances, rewards and incentives, or mobile money.
Reloadly enables the delivery of top-ups within 5 seconds.
In addition, you can set up or automate the bulk transfer of airtime to mobile phones, meaning you can transfer bulk airtime within seconds to multiple people at any time.
You can learn how to automate bulk transfers in this guide.
7. Multiple Integration Options
Reloadly offers more than just a cloud-based airtime API; developers also get access to our software and developer toolkits.
You can access our airtime widget, WordPress plugin and Reloadly SDK with a Reloadly user account.
The airtime widget and WordPress plugin offer different means to integrate the airtime top-up service into your website. With the SDK, you can access the important components of our easy-to-integrate and advanced airtime technology.
Our .NET IOS and GOlang SDKs are now available on GitHub.
You can get a more in-depth look of all of our software tools by reading this article.
Final Thoughts
Exploring a connection to Nigerian telcos comes with its unique challenges, and we work hard to ensure that our Nigerian airtime top-up API addresses all of them.
Businesses should be able to easily explore the potential of Nigeria’s mobile traffic unhindered, and with Reloadly’s unmatched API technology they now can.
Contact us to get the conversation started and learn more about how Reloadly has helped build innovative airtime services for companies large and small.
