Hey diaspora, you can now send airtime to Zim via Techzim – check it out

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1. Geralt of Rivea

   12 July 2022 15:49

   This is great. I still have my Zim number on roaming and I need it to have airtime to receive calls. This is good news for me. I infered you are using a rate of 1USD:ZWL500, not bad in my opinion. Will this however not result in recepients opting to be sent cash directly so they use a better street rate?

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   1. Tinashe Nyahasha

      12 July 2022 17:47

      Hi Geralt

      Thank you very much for the feedback and for “committing” to be our customer. Please let us know your experience when you do try the service out.

      You are right in your assumption on the rate. It’s not as attractive as it could be because the transaction costs are still quite high for us at the moment and then costs after the transaction as well. I do not think this will necessarily dissuade customers given the low value nature of the transaction which would be very expensive to remit as cash. Also, I suspect that senders buying airtime will probably be a transaction outside of what they ordinarily send to relatives as cash or perhaps even groceries

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2. NF

   12 July 2022 18:56

   Excuse me Techzim but are you looking for a programmer

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   1. Tinashe Nyahasha

      12 July 2022 20:22

      Hi NF. We are currently not looking for a programmer but still please reach out to us on admin[at]techzim.co.zw

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3. Nkululeko

   12 July 2022 20:40

   Do you guys have option of paying Zim home WiFi?if you have how do we go about?

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   1. Tinashe Nyahasha

      12 July 2022 21:00

      Hi Nkululeko
      Thank you very much for talking to us and for your intention to support us. We will soon have bill payments enabled including home WiFi and ZESA but this is not live yet. Please watch this space in the next few days we will be announcing this as we role out

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4. Noob

   12 July 2022 22:25

   hi techzim , how did you manage to use the flutterwave api , on the signup page zimbabwe is not on the list of the countries supported…im just curious as a developer

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   1. Tinashe Nyahasha

      12 July 2022 23:07

      Hi Noob
      It is unfortunate that Zimbabwe is excluded from these solutions because of our crazy economy and the fact that the country is on global watch lists. In fact, this is the reason we cannot offer this service for locally issued USD cards at the moment.
      We had to partner a non Zimbabwean company to be able to get these integrations

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5. Mitch

   13 July 2022 12:54

   Great, coming from you guys you should also include Zesa or other services,.. I tried it ,easy to use

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   1. Tinashe Nyahasha

      13 July 2022 16:55

      Thank you very much Mitch. We appreciate your business and the feedback as well. The response from the Techzim community has been really encouraging, thank you all so very much

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6. Joe

   16 July 2022 08:34

   Good service! Can you expand it to cover ZOL? Paying them is a hassle.

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   1. Tinashe Nyahasha

      16 July 2022 12:10

      Thank you Joe!
      We are working to offer ZOL payments. It’s been really slow though, we hope we will be able to add it soon

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7. Anonymous

   21 September 2022 21:38

   Do you have alipay ore wechat pay account?

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   1. Tinashe Nyahasha

      21 September 2022 22:09

      Unfortunately we don’t have Alipay or Wechat Pay (yet)

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