Verify Kaafi e-birr payments before the goods leave
Kaafi e-birr is a mobile wallet used for everyday payments in Ethiopia. Haq checks each payment with Kaafi e-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 Kaafi e-birr payment
- It went to your account: the receiver on Kaafi e-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 Kaafi e-birr reference
Each Kaafi e-birr payment has a transaction ID on the customer's confirmation screen and in the SMS that follows 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 Kaafi e-birr confirmation, or types the reference.
- Haq gets Kaafi e-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 Kaafi e-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 Kaafi e-birr app, as they do today.