Verify CBE Birr payments before the goods leave
CBE Birr is the mobile wallet of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. Haq checks each payment with CBE Birr itself and tells your cashier in seconds whether the money is really in your account.
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What Haq checks on every CBE Birr payment
- It went to your account: the receiver on CBE Birr's receipt is one your shop registered.
- It's the right amount: never less than what your cashier entered.
- It was paid just now: an old receipt shown again doesn't pass.
- Nobody has used it before: each reference counts once, at any shop on Haq.
Where to find the CBE Birr reference
Each CBE Birr payment has a transaction ID. It is on the customer's confirmation screen and in the SMS CBE Birr sends after the payment.
Haq reads it from a photo of the screen, so the cashier rarely has to type it.
How it works at the counter
- The cashier photographs or scans the customer's CBE Birr confirmation, or types the reference.
- Haq gets CBE Birr's official receipt for that reference and runs the four checks.
- Green: hand the goods over. Red: Haq says what's wrong, so the cashier knows what to ask.
What you need
- The wallet number or numbers your shop receives CBE Birr payments on. The owner registers them once.
- An Android phone with mobile data or Wi-Fi for each cashier.
- Nothing from the customer: they pay from their own CBE Birr app, as they do today.