PesewaPay Scheduled Payments

Recurring payments that remind by default.

Set up a payment that comes round regularly — rent, a subscription, money home every month — and PesewaPay keeps track of when it is due.

A reminder never takes money A payment that did not happen is not silent A scheduled payment is the same payment you would make by hand
What it is

Set up a payment that comes round regularly — rent, a subscription, money home every month — and PesewaPay keeps track of when it is due.

By default it reminds you and you decide. It will only move money by itself if you explicitly ask for that and prove your PIN, because the difference between the two is somebody's rent leaving without them expecting it.

Will money leave my wallet without me doing anything?

Only if you set the schedule to automatic and confirmed it with your PIN. Otherwise you are reminded and nothing moves until you act.

How it works

From start to finish

1

Set it up

Who, how much, how often. The person you are paying is a phone number, so they do not have to have joined yet.

2

Choose reminder or automatic

Reminder is the default. Automatic requires your PIN, and both the fact you gave it and when are recorded.

3

It comes due

A reminder tells you and waits. An automatic one checks four things before a single pesewa moves — that it really is automatic, that the PIN authorisation is on file, that the person exists, and that you have the money.

4

If it cannot go through

The reason is recorded against the schedule so the app can explain the silence instead of leaving you wondering.

Where your money is

At every point, you can say where it sits

  1. 1 Due date reminder, or automatic
  2. 2 Four checks any one failing stops it
  3. 3 Their wallet same movement as a payment you make by hand
What we guarantee

Not promises. Mechanisms.

Each of these is enforced in the software rather than stated as a policy. A policy can be broken; these cannot.

A reminder never takes money

A reminder schedule cannot debit anything, ever. Automatic is something you have to ask for, with your PIN, and the evidence is kept.

A payment that did not happen is not silent

When an automatic payment cannot go through, the reason is stored against the schedule and shown to you. An automatic payment that quietly did not happen is worse than one that visibly failed.

A scheduled payment is the same payment you would make by hand

It reuses exactly the same movement, so the charges, the record and the balance rules behave identically. There is no second, less careful path for money that moves on a timer.

Questions

What people actually ask

Only if you set the schedule to automatic and confirmed it with your PIN. Otherwise you are reminded and nothing moves until you act.

Nothing moves and you are told why. PesewaPay will not overdraw you to complete a schedule.

You can create it — the recipient is stored as a phone number. An automatic payment cannot complete until they have an account, and you are told that is the reason.

Any charge is shown to you before you confirm, on the same screen you confirm on — never afterwards and never buried. Charges differ by service and some are currently nothing at all. A refund is never charged for.
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