Bill Payments

1,000+billers.
Oneendpoint.

Airtime, electricity, water, DSTV, education, insurance — across 12 nations. We negotiate with every biller and aggregator so your platform can settle them all through a single API call.

New payment · #BK-2841
BillerEskom Prepaid
Meter4837 2910 0023
AmountR 250.00
Confirm payment →
Token delivered in < 6 seconds
The footprint, by numbers

Infrastructure you can count, in numbers that don't need decoration.

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MNO direct connections
Across the continent
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SMS / month throughput
Sustained, not peak
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Nations served
Botswana → Nigeria
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Sustained SMS peak
Per-customer capacity
01Airtime

Top up any African mobile number.

Direct airtime top-ups across every MNO in our footprint. Same /payments endpoint, same callback shape, just the biller_id changes.

  • 30+ MNOs, prepaid & contract
  • Per-recipient receipt with the original MNO timestamp
  • Refundable on failure — never silently lost
MTN South AfricaZAR 50
Safaricom KenyaKES 200
Airtel NigeriaNGN 1,000
Vodacom TanzaniaTZS 5,000
02Electricity

Prepaid tokens, in seconds.

Pay the bill, receive the 20-digit token, send it to the customer. Eskom, BPC, Zesco, NamPower, ZESA — all live on the same call.

  • Token issued + delivered SMS/WhatsApp in under 6 seconds
  • Customer meter validated before debit
  • Reconciliation report ties to the cent against utility statements
Eskom (ZA)R 250
BPC (BW)P 100
Zesco (ZM)ZMW 80
NamPower (NA)N$ 200
03DSTV & subscription TV

Pay the package. Activate the box.

DSTV, GOtv, StarTimes, Showmax — subscription renewals across the continent. Black Konnect activates the decoder before the API returns.

  • Decoder card validated on submit
  • Activation completes before the API response
  • Failed payments rolled back without manual reconciliation
DSTV PremiumR 879/mo
GOtv MaxR 369/mo
StarTimes NovaKES 599/mo
Showmax ProR 199/mo
04Education, water, insurance & more

The long tail of African billers.

School fees, water utilities, microinsurance premiums, government levies — niche but essential. If it's a recurring African bill, it's likely already in the catalogue.

  • Education: UNISA, Wits, Makerere, Lagos State
  • Water: City of Cape Town, Nairobi Water, Lusaka Water
  • Insurance: Old Mutual, Sanlam, Liberty
UNISA feesR 2,400
Cape Town WaterR 380
Old Mutual premiumR 650
Lagos State levy₦ 4,500
Two lines of code

Issue a payment to any biller in the catalogue.

Pick the biller, pass the customer reference (meter number, MSISDN, smart-card ID), and the amount. We validate, debit, and stream back the receipt + delivered token.

curl https://api.blackkonnect.io/v1/payments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BK_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "biller_id": "eskom_prepaid",
    "reference": "4837291000023",
    "amount":    250,
    "currency":  "ZAR",
    "notify":    "+27821234567"
  }'