aid: mukuru
name: Mukuru
description: >-
  Mukuru is a Cape Town-headquartered, pan-African fintech and one of the
  continent's largest formal remittance providers, serving over 16 million
  customers across Southern, Eastern and Western Africa, the United Kingdom,
  and the European Union. Founded in 2004 to make sending money home faster
  and more affordable for the African diaspora, Mukuru now operates a broader
  financial services platform spanning international and domestic money
  transfers, the Mukuru Card (a prepaid card product), Mukuru Wallet (a
  mobile money wallet available in markets such as Botswana for airtime,
  electricity, and bill payments), Mukuru Pay (cash-based online checkout at
  retail partners), and Mukuru Funeral Cover (life insurance with
  cross-border repatriation benefits underwritten by Guardrisk Life). The
  company is licensed as a South African Financial Services Provider (FSP
  45517) and registered Credit Provider (NCRCP9244), and reaches customers
  through a hybrid network of branches, retail booths, USSD, WhatsApp, web,
  and native Android, iOS, and Huawei AppGallery apps, supported by more
  than 320,000 pay-in and pay-out locations. An enterprise arm — branded
  under the Mukuru Enterprise / MukuruPay umbrella — offers collections and
  disbursements rails to businesses sending funds into or paying out across
  Africa. Mukuru does not publish a public developer API, OpenAPI
  specification, SDK, or open-source client; its Mukuru GitHub organization
  contains only archived forks of upstream infrastructure tooling (Drone,
  Helm, Puppet, PHP Docker images) and no Mukuru-authored libraries.
  Integrations with the Mukuru Enterprise platform are arranged through
  direct commercial engagement rather than a self-service developer program.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Remittance
  - Money Transfer
  - Cross Border Payments
  - Africa
  - South Africa
  - Diaspora
  - Mobile Money
  - Wallet
  - Prepaid Card
  - Funeral Insurance
  - Disbursements
  - Collections
  - Cash In Cash Out
  - Financial Inclusion
  - Fintech
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/mukuru/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/mukuru-domain-security.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.mukuru.com
  - type: AboutUs
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/about-us/
  - type: Enterprise
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/enterprise/
  - type: SendMoney
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/send-money/
  - type: MukuruCard
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/mukuru-card/
  - type: MukuruWallet
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/mukuru-wallet/
  - type: MukuruPay
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/mukuru-pay/
  - type: FuneralCover
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/services/mukuru-funeral-cover/
  - type: Rates
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/check-rates/
  - type: BranchesAndBooths
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/find-us/branches-booths/
  - type: Signup
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/sign-up-with-mukuru/
  - type: Login
    url: https://mobile.mukuru.com/mobi/login
  - type: HelpSupport
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/help-support/
  - type: ContactUs
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/help-support/contact-us/
  - type: Newsroom
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/news/
  - type: PressMediaKit
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/about-us/press-media-kit/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://moneymatters.mukuru.com/
  - type: Careers
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/about-us/careers/
  - type: FraudPrevention
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/fraud-prevention/
  - type: Security
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/legal/information-security-at-mukuru/
  - type: Legal
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/legal/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/legal/terms-conditions/
  - type: ComplaintsPolicy
    url: https://www.mukuru.com/legal/the-mukuru-group-complaints-policy/
  - type: AndroidApp
    url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mukuru.customer.android
  - type: iOSApp
    url: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1515075370
  - type: HuaweiApp
    url: https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C103861487
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/Mukuru
  - type: Facebook
    url: https://www.facebook.com/mukurudotcom
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/mukurudotcom
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mukuru
  - type: Instagram
    url: https://www.instagram.com/mukurudotcom/
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/@mukuru
  - type: TikTok
    url: https://www.tiktok.com/@mukurudotcom
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com