• How To Send Money From South Africa With EcoCash

    EcoCash has finally remembered our brothers and sisters in South Africa by blessing them with the EcoCash remit service, which enables them to send money using EcoCash directly into the EcoCash wallets of people in Zimbabwe. You may be wondering how that is all done, here’s how: First, register on the website or on the…

  • WhatsEco Allows You To Transact On EcoCash Via WhatsApp, A Bit Different From Steward Banks’s Sosholoza

    Bots are all the rage right now, Steward Bank recently launched WhatsApp banking and now we have a cool alternative that allows you to transact using a chatbot on WhatsApp. It sounds pretty convenient and after taking it for a spin it actually seems very cool. Getting started First thing’s first this requires a companion…

  • EcoCash Remit: Zimbabweans In South Africa Can Now Send Money Back Home Using EcoCash

    Zimbabweans in South Africa can now send money directly into the EcoCash accounts of their loved ones in Zimbabwe courtesy of the EcoCash Remit service. When the Rands are sent into EcoCash, recipients in Zimbabwe will receive the money into their Ecocash FCA wallet as US dollars which they can withdraw as cash at any…

  • UPDATED: EcoCash Is Back Up Again, There Seems To Be A Pattern To This

    It now sounds like a broken record. (By the way for our generation Z readers: a broken vinyl record would repeat the same part of the song over and over. This is what we used to have before cassettes, CDs, memory sticks, memory cards or spotify). So yes, it’s now a broken record that EcoCash…

  • UPDATED: Econet and EcoCash Services Currently Now Available, After Some Unscheduled Maintenance

    UPDATE: The USSD platform for Econet services and both the app and USSD menu for EcoCash are now working properly. Hopefully the maintenance work happening last night resolved the hiccups that have been happening on these platforms. The below is no longer relevant. We are just keeping it for reference: Some Econet platforms cannot be…

  • {Updated} How To Transfer Money From OneMoney, Telecash To EcoCash And Vice Versa

    Let’s talk about the long-desired feature introduced by Steward bank yesterday that enables people to transfer money between wallets. That’s the magic of Sosholoza: you can move money between Telecash and OneMoney and EcoCash through Steward Bank’s WhatsApp banking service. You can also move money between these aforementioned wallets to any bank too. You are…

  • EcoCash CEO Natalie Jabangwe Is Now Also EcoSure’s Interim CEO: One For Women’s Day

    As you may know by now EcoSure launched a new product today – EcoSure Rescue Services. What may come as a surprise however is the fact that Natalie Jabangwe who is the CEO at Cassava Smartech’s subsidiary EcoCash was introduced as the Interim CEO of EcoSure. Jabangwe then took to the stage and gave a…

  • EcoCash Should Open To All Banks Now Otherwise Cassava May Have Monopoly Legal Problems

    This week’s biggest news is that Cassava Smartech has disrupted its dominant mobile money platform, EcoCash. They have taken the crown from the service on their own terms rather than wait for someone else to disrupt them. The big deal here The most important thing that has resulted from the launch of Sosholoza is that…

  • Steward Bank Is The New EcoCash, Bigger And Stronger

    Today Cassava Smartech disrupted themselves. EcoCash, Zimbabwe’s biggest mobile money service with a market share of 97% has been the de facto cash in Zimbabwe for a very long time. In terms of retail payments, that is daily payments between individuals and individuals or individuals and merchants, their only rival is Zimswitch, the interbank transaction…

  • Now You Can Send Money Between Ecocash & OneMoney Or Telecash And The Other Way Round

    Though Steward Bank didn’t end up launching Sosholoza live on their Facebook page the cat is now out of the bag. They uploaded a video explaining how Sosholoza will work and I must say WhatsApp banking is pretty exciting! One thing that caught my eye, however, is the fact that mobile money users will now…

  • Econet & EcoCash Apologize For Service Disruptions

    You may have been one of the customers who has been facing some challenges using Econet’s network today. Unfortunately the service disruption has meant that EcoCash isn’t working as advertised as well. When Ecocash is down we loose 99% of our orders at Fresh in Box. We have lost orders now for 3 hours. When…

  • ZESA Token System Currently Down Says EcoCash

    If you’re currently trying to purchase ZESA tokens via EcoCash you may be facing some challenges and that’s because the system isn’t working as advertised right now. The mobile money service provider sent out the statement below making it clear the problem lies with ZESA’s system: Dear Valued Customer You may experience service disruptions in…

  • Get This XDA 8-Course Bundle Introduces You to Python and Machine Learning, Ecocash Offer Available

    Python is one of the most popular program languages out there and it’s popularity continues to grow. While it is a general purpose language it has seen extensive use in the Machine Learning world. So what do you have to do to acquire or enhance your Python and or Machine Learning skills? Well, normally whatever…

  • Breaking: Econet And Cassava Lose Court Case, High Court Rules That EcoCash Cannot Separate Itself From Cassava

    The drama at the courts continues between the Econet family and their former partner Dr Dish. Dr Dish argues that Econet Media owes them $6.8 million as part of their revenue sharing deal when Kwese TV was launched. They are disputing the supposed claim by Econet that they only had 38 Kwese TV subscribers in…

  • #Picture: Ecocash Updates Prefixes In Transaction SMS: Changes Them From USD To RTGS $

    The RBZ governor willed it and now it has been done: Zimbabwe has a new currency called the RTGS $ which is now our primary currency instead of the USD we have used for the past 10 years. Ecocash wallets which used to be in USD are now explicitly in RTGS $. To make sure…

  • What Happened To EcoCash’s QR Payments Solution, Scan & Pay

    I’m pretty sure we all hate fiddling with USSD codes when we are about to pay for something in a shop. The dread of that transaction timing out or you missing out one detail and having to restart the process keeps me up at night. In September of 2018, these fears looked like a thing…

  • The EcoCash App Is Currently Down For Some Users

    It seems there are some issues EcoCash app users are facing when trying to use their mobile money application. The error is basically making the app unusable and anyone opening the application is met instead by an error message locking them out of the application. Some users trying to open the application are being met…

  • Many Moons Later Standard Chartered Is Still Having ZIPIT And Ecocash “Challenges”

    While it was initially conceived as a way to send and receive money, Ecocash has become the unofficial currency of Zimbabwe. They might be calling them RTGS dollars but Ecocash is the best way to move these dollars. ZIPIT is a distant second but it is no less useful. The truth of the matter is…

  • What’s Going On With EcoCash Remittances?

    Over the past few weeks, we’ve been getting a number of emails regarding EcoCash subscribers and remittances or lack thereof. There seems to be some serious problems when it comes to EcoCash’s partnership with World Remit and that has resulted in a number of people failing to get their money. Here is a thread of…

  • EcoCash Has A New & Exciting Rewards Program

    This morning EcoCash has announced a new rewards program that they are calling EcoCash Rewards. The rewards program will work every time you transact and EcoCash will make sure you get rewarded. How will this work? What are the benefits? For customers EcoCash is promising the following benefits: Earn up to 15% of VALUE as…

  • Ecocash Cashout Rates Have Fallen On The Black Market

    While Zimbabwe certainly still has a biting foreign currency crisis one thing appears to have gotten less severe for some reason: The Cash crisis, which is still definitely a problem appears to have gotten less severe. In June last year whenever I wanted to cash out money from my Ecocash wallet I had to part…

  • Get Your Own dotAfrica Domain For €3 Per Year: Ecocash Offer Available

    On 15 March 1985, the US Department of Defense introduced the .com domain to the world and ushered the revolution that is the web into existence. However, because of time and domain speculation, a lot of good .com domains are now no longer available. Even Google had to change its name from Googol in order…

  • CABS Customers Can Now Use The ‘Swipe Into EcoCash’ Service Again

    The last half of last year saw many banks suspending the ‘Swipe into EcoCash’ for unexplained reasons, leaving people unable to move money their bank accounts into the EcoCash wallet. Among the affected customers were those from CABS. But, CABS customers can start their Tuesday well knowing that it’s now possible to use the ‘Swipe into…

  • Fraudster Used EcoCash To Defraud A Retailer $12000

    A fraudster who used EcoCash to defraud people has been sentenced to 6 years in jail by a Guruve magistrate. Takemore Jamu, the fraudster used perhaps one of the most simple ways to swindle a certain retail outlet groceries worth $12 000. How did he do it? Apparently, this guy presented himself as a buyer and…

  • Having Trouble Using EcoCash? It Seems You’re Not The Only One

    It seems a lot of EcoCash users are having challenges buying airtime, bundles and transacting with the dreaded double debit rearing it’s ugly head once again. These problems seem to have been occurring since yesterday and if you’re unlucky you might have already experienced it. What’s happening is that when you pay for something, your…

  • How The Ecocash USD Wallet Experience Can Be Improved

    So yeah, good thing that Ecocash introduced the FCA wallet for USD transactions. Of course this is only a good idea to the extent that they have good USD liquidity to make the movement of money from one end of the country to the next possible. Let’s assume they do. The thing I would fix…

  • Econet: It’s Fake News,Government Has Not Directed Us To Clear Ecocash Balances

    For the past few weeks there has been a message circulating telling people that their Ecocash balances were going to be written down to $0.00 in response to a government directive. The tone of the message is carefully crafted to match the tone of the two SMS messages that Econet sent out when the government…

  • EcoCash Nominated For Two Awards At The GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2019

    Zimbabwe’s most commonly used payment platform, EcoCash has been nominated for two awards in the Best Mobile Innovation for Payment and Fintech and Outstanding Mobile Contribution to the UN SDGs categories. The first category is pretty self-explanatory, whilst the second nomination is for mobile technology that contributes towards the United Nations Sustainable Goals for Development. The goals were set…

  • The Ecocash ‘Let’s Go 50:50’ Promotion Ended And Some People Are Disappointed With The Rewards They Received

    The EcoCash ‘Let’s go 50:50 promotion’ (EcoCash 50:50 promotion) ended yesterday and some people seem disappointed with the ‘1% cashback rewards’ they received which they are labeling as “peanuts”. Few people on Twitter voiced their disappointment and I personally know several people who are angry with what they got from the promotion for spending so much.…

  • Ecocash CEO, Natalie Jabangwe Appointed To President Mnangagwa’s 24 Member Advisory Council

    President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed a 24 member advisory council. The news of course brought all sorts of reactions on social media. There are a lot of interesting individuals who have been appointed to this council but one name that jumped straight at me was Natalie Jabangwe-Morris, the young CEO at Cassava’s Ecocash. Natalie has…

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