Chipper Cash
Cross-border payments · 7 African countries · 4M+ users
- Outcome
- OTP drop-off eliminated
- Markets localised
- 2 (and growing)
Chipper Cash facilitates free peer-to-peer payments across Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, the UK, and the USA. By 2020, the platform had grown to 4 million active users, averaging 80,000 daily transactions and processing $100M in monthly payment value.
As Chipper Cash scaled, their previous messaging provider began to show its limits: OTPs failing silently, messages landing on inactive numbers, no ability to localise delivery in-country, and costs that didn't justify the reliability. Every failed OTP was a transaction their user couldn't complete.
“Prior to joining Termii, we faced significant challenges: SMS messages delivered to inactive numbers, failing OTPs, and no ability to localise SMS delivery in our markets, all at substantial cost.”
Termii's verification platform gave Chipper Cash an all-in-one signal layer: OTP delivery scored for success before firing, intelligent routing across SMS, Voice, and WhatsApp, automatic fallback when a channel degrades, and localised carrier relationships in their key markets.
“Since we made the switch to Termii, we have seen a considerable difference in the amount of SMS drop-off and a steady uplift in successful OTP delivery. We've been able to localise SMS delivery in two of the countries we operate in. All in all, a much better and cost-effective service.”
Results for Chipper Cash users
- Trusted, secure way to send and receive money with failed-OTP risk eliminated
- Protection against identity theft through device-authenticated OTP delivery
- Significantly fewer failed payments due to signal drop-off
- Localised delivery in two active markets, with more to come
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