Safaricom PLC and Ant Financial Services – the world’s largest fintech services provider – have announced a partnership that will allow Kenyans shopping on AliExpress to pay for their purchases using M-PESA. The move especially targets micro-traders in the country who source for goods and other supplies from manufacturers in China, and signifies Safaricom’s continued push to position M-PESA as a truly global mobile money transfer and payments platform.
Five months after Safaricom announced its M-PESA global initiative, the biggest mobile money platform in Kenya now plays nice with one of the world’s biggest e-commerce platforms, AliExpress. Initially, to shop on AliExpress, one had to have a credit card, and knowing Kenyan’s relationship with these banks, the inclusion on M-PESA as a payment option on AliExpress will no doubt allow the majority of the unbanked population access to one of the world’s biggest catalog.
How to Pay with M-PESA on AliExpress
In this new agreement, M-Pesa will now appear as a payment option after checking out on AliExpressxpress.com.
Go on and check-out from your AliExpress cart 
Under payment options, Select M-PESA 
Enter your Safaricom M-PESA number 
You’ll then get this prompt on your M-PESA line, asking for your PIN for aunthentication.
Once a customer selects M-Pesa as a payment option, they will share their mobile phone number and receive communication to key in their pin number to finalize the payment.
M-Pesa customers will then have their cost revealed in Kenya shillings with standard Lipa na M-Pesa paybill charges according to the number of transactions made at that period of time.
About Clinton Madegwa
I'm a tech enthusiast and digital explorer based in Kenya passionate about Android, Linux, and the world of custom ROMs. I love tinkering with devices to craft personalized, optimized experiences. When I'm not deep in code or tweaking gadgets, you'll find me immersed in science fiction, philosophy, or writing about the ever-evolving tech landscape from an African perspective.
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