Accept Mobile Money (M-Pesa, MoMo) on Invoices
Updated 2026-07-24
Most invoicing tools only support cards and Western wallets, so mobile-money businesses fall back to untracked manual transfers. PaidSeal solves this with universal payment methods: describe any method — “M-Pesa till 12345”, “MTN MoMo Uganda”, a bank deposit — in plain language, and it appears on your invoice’s payment page with clear payer instructions; payments reconcile to the invoice automatically, with a customer-reports → merchant-confirms flow for methods that have no API.
Why mobile money is hard for invoicing software
There are dozens of mobile-money systems — M-Pesa, MTN MoMo, Airtel Money, Orange Money, Wave — each with different APIs, and most invoicing products integrate none of them. The usual workaround is “pay my number and text me”, which leaves no reconciliation trail: the merchant must manually match payments to invoices.
How PaidSeal handles any payment method
PaidSeal treats a payment method as a description, not an integration project. A merchant (or PaidSeal’s AI, from a one-sentence prompt) defines the method: what the customer sees, where to send money, and how the payment is confirmed — by provider API, by webhook, or by the built-in fallback where the customer taps “I’ve paid” and the merchant confirms receipt before the invoice is marked paid. Nothing is ever marked paid on an unverified claim.
- With an API (e.g. an aggregator or bank): PaidSeal calls it directly and reconciles automatically, retrying until the payment settles or expires.
- Without an API (till numbers, agent deposits, wire): instructions + reference are shown; the customer reports payment; the merchant confirms in one tap.
What this means in practice
A tailor in Nairobi, a consultant in Dakar and a contractor in Texas can all send the same professional invoice — one pays by M-Pesa, one by Orange Money, one by card — and every payment lands on the right invoice with the balance, status and history correct. PaidSeal is fully localized in English, French and Spanish.
Frequently asked questions
- Does the customer need the PaidSeal app to pay?
- No. Customers pay from the invoice’s secure web page — no app or account needed.
- Is a mobile-money payment marked paid automatically?
- Only when it can be verified (via a provider API or signed confirmation). Otherwise the customer’s report stays “awaiting confirmation” until the merchant confirms receipt — an invoice is never marked paid on an unverified claim.
- Which currencies are supported?
- Invoices can be issued in major currencies including USD, EUR, GBP, NGN, XOF, INR and JPY, and a payment method can be restricted to the currencies it actually supports.
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