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Update: ZESA Increases Minimum Amount Of Tokens You Can Buy On EcoCash &...
The minimum amount of ZESA tokens you can buy through EcoCash has been increased from $10 to $20. EcoCash posted the message on their social media accounts: Dear valued customerPlease note that ZETDC...
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Instant EcoCash App Adds Local Language Support
We’ve talked about Instant EcoCash before. It’s a brilliant application that allows users to ditch the EcoCash app which requires data and gives pretty extensive functionality. Outside of all this...
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Fraudsters Using Fake EcoCash Messages To Fool Retailers
Recently a group of fraudsters in Victoria Falls was arrested for buying goods using fake EcoCash confirmation messages to fool retailers and buy alcohol. It is the state’s case that Ngwenya was...
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EcoCash Closes More Agent Lines
Several EcoCash agents had their lines closed yesterday as result of ongoing investigations by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, according to Zimpricecheck. EcoCash and RBZ have lately been trying to curb...
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EcoCash Vs Swiping: What’s Superior?
Back in 2011 when EcoCash was introduced, I don’t think any of us envisioned how ubiquitous the payments platform would become close to a decade later. In fact, our article covering the EcoCash launch...
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[Interview] We Chat With Visa’s GM for Southern Africa: “We Need To Think...
We sat down with VISA’s General Manager for Southern Africa Mr. Jabu Basopo. We had an interesting conversation that touched on a variety of issues including improving the security of payments,...
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Alert! You Won’t Be Able To Use EcoCash For 24 Hours This Weekend
Your worst nightmare is happening this weekend. EcoCash has issued a statement telling people that its service won’t be available for 24 hours, from 9pm on Saturday the 16th of November to 9pm on...
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Critical Work For System Upgrade Has Been Happening For The Past Several...
Yesterday, we broke the news that EcoCash won’t be available for 24 hours this coming weekend. According to EcoCash’s spokesperson, the weekend’s planned system upgrade marks the culmination of months...
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EcoCash Subscribers Panic After Absence Of Option To Buy Airtime
As we all know, EcoCash was undergoing 24-hour maintenance from Saturday 9 PM (it ended up stretching to this morning). When EcoCash started working again last night a number of people who use the...
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EcoCash System Challenges Persist Despite Service Being Restored
Since coming back online last night around 9 PM as promised, EcoCash has been a hot mess, with intermittent service being the order of the day for users of the mobile money platform. Initially, there...
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EcoCash Is Not Closing Down, Says EcoCash As It Dismisses Fake News
Amid EcoCash’s intermittent service disruptions, some people have decided to make people panic by cooking up doomsday warnings. EcoCash has dismissed a circulating message that is saying the Ecocash...
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Here Are Some Of The New Features On EcoCash
The infamous EcoCash upgrade which has been labelled by many as a downgrade due to the inconvenience caused by extended downtimes has been met with hostility because of its failure to work. We decided...
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EcoCash Minimum Airtime Purchase Increased
It appears the minimum airtime purchase you can make on EcoCash might be getting a 150% increase from $2 to $5. That’s currently the message popping up when users try to buy airtime for anything less...
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How Does An EcoCash Outage Affect Local Startups?
What started out as an EcoCash system upgrade this past weekend quickly turned into the equivalent of a horror show for many local businesses which simply couldn’t process transactions on the most...
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EcoCash Says Its App Is Not Yet Stable, So Use *151# At The Moment
Even though yesterday EcoCash sent out messages to its subscribers telling them that service has been fully restored, it looks like things are not flowing quite well in the entire EcoCash ecosystem....
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Transacting Using OneMoney Will Be Free Until The End Of 2019
OneMoney is pouncing on the chaotic fortnight that EcoCash has had. What initially seemed like a passive attempt at winning over market share with media poster has turned into a full-on assault with...
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EcoCash Says We Are Almost Done Clearing Customer Queries
EcoCash continues to battle with arguably its worst crash and whilst the service is back up, it’s certainly not business as usual. With that being said the mobile money service is now working on...
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New EcoCash Merchant Payment UX Is Terrible
UX stands for user experience- just in case. Almost two weeks ago EcoCash warned users that the platform would go offline for 24 hours over the weekend. They said this was to make the system better...
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Podcast On The EcoCash Outage
On this episode of the Techzim podcast, we have a discussion on the EcoCash system upgrade that turned into an outage. Some of the questions on our minds were: Do these things happen?What could they...
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How To Move Money From Your Bank To Your OneMoney Wallet
OneMoney announced their festive promotion earlier this week and in addition to transacting for free until the end of the year, there’s also a 1GB data incentive for those willing to move their funds...
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