Cellulant is a pan-African payments platform headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, operating across 35 African countries. Its flagship product Tingg is a single API that lets businesses collect online and offline payments, disburse to mobile money wallets and bank accounts, vend airtime and data, pay bills, and engage customers by SMS — interoperably across 350+ banks, mobile network operators, and card networks. Cellulant processes more than 4.5 million transactions per day for 2,000+ enterprise merchants and powers payments for ~220 million consumers.
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Run: Capabilities Using Naftiko
Payments, Mobile Money, Checkout, Payouts, Disbursement, Africa, Pan-African, Fintech, Bank Transfer, Cards, Airtime, Bill Payment, SMS, OTP, Tingg
- Created: 2026-05-24
- Modified: 2026-05-24
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Countries (payouts) | 35 |
| Countries (collections) | 25+ |
| Payment methods | 283+ |
| Bank / MNO / card integrations | 350+ |
| Enterprise merchants | 2,000+ |
| Daily transactions processed | 4.5M+ |
| Consumers reachable | ~220M |
Tingg Checkout 3.0 — a single integration to collect payments across 25+ African markets via Express Checkout (hosted/modal), Custom Checkout (host-to-host), and the Direct Card API (3DS / 3DS-less / 2D). Supports mobile money, cards, direct bank transfer, and 283+ payment methods.
Human URL: docs.tingg.africa/docs/introduction
- Documentation — Introduction
- Documentation — Express Checkout
- Documentation — Custom Checkout
- Documentation — Direct Card
- Documentation — Acknowledge Payments
- Webhook — Implement via Callback URL
- OpenAPI
- JSON Schema — Checkout Request
- JSON-LD
- Example — Create Express Checkout
- Naftiko Capability — Checkout
Tingg Payouts (Beep) — a single global JSON endpoint that dispatches BEEP.postPayment, BEEP.queryPayment, BEEP.validateAccount, BEEP.getBill, BEEP.getBalance, and BEEP.refundPayment for mobile-money B2C, bulk disbursement, cross-border bank transfers, airtime/data vending, and bill payments (DSTV, GOTV, electricity, water) across 35 African countries.
Human URL: docs.tingg.africa/docs/payouts-get-started
- Documentation — Get Started
- Documentation — Post a Payment
- OpenAPI
- JSON Schema — Payout Packet
- Example — Post Payment
- Naftiko Capability — Payouts
Tingg Engage — single global entry point for transactional alerts. Queue OTP, transactional, and standard SMS with templated parameters and receive per-message delivery callbacks.
Human URL: docs.tingg.africa/reference/engagement-service-api-v2
- Documentation — Engagement Service v2
- Documentation — Engagement APIs
- OpenAPI
- Example — Send SMS
- Naftiko Capability — Engagement
- Website — cellulant.io
- Product — tingg.africa
- Developer Portal — developer.tingg.africa
- Documentation — docs.tingg.africa
- Documentation — API Reference
- Getting Started — Checkout 3.0
- Sandbox — app.sandbox.tingg.africa
- Pricing
- Checkout
- Payouts
- Payment Gateway
- Payment Pages
- Payment Infrastructure
- GitHub Organization — CellulantCorp
- Twitter / X — @cellulant
- YouTube
- Careers
- Contact
| Language / Platform | Package |
|---|---|
| PHP | packagist.org/packages/tingg/checkout |
| Python | pypi.org/project/Tingg |
| Node.js | npmjs.com/package/@tingg-sdk/checkout |
| .NET | nuget.org/packages/Tingg.Checkout.Net |
| JS (Browser) | cdn.cellulant.africa/js/tingg-checkout-library.js |
| PHP (source) | CellulantCorp/Express-Checkout-PHP-Client |
| Python (source) | CellulantCorp/express-checkout-python |
| Node.js (source) | CellulantCorp/express-checkout-nodejs |
| C# (source) | CellulantCorp/express-checkout-c-sharp |
| WooCommerce | CellulantCorp/cellulant-tingg-payment-gateway |
| WordPress.org | wordpress.org/plugins/cellulant-tingg-checkout |
| WordPress (Mula) | CellulantCorp/mula-wordpress-plugin |
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FN: Kin Lane
Email: kin@apievangelist.com