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Zuma Pay in Praia

Accept money from anyone in Africa, on any rail.

How you pay in Cabo Verde

Everything is priced in CVE ($). No foreign card required.

Vinti4 Card

Payments in this market fall under Bank of Cabo Verde. See our licensing status →

Praia at a glance

Population
160,000
Currency
CVE
Time zone
Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Status
Launching soon

Be first when Zuma opens in Praia

We open a market when there are enough verified drivers, vendors and listings to serve it properly — not a day earlier. Waitlist demand is the biggest input into which city we open next, so adding your name genuinely moves Praia up the queue.

One email when we launch. No marketing list, no sharing your number.

Everything inside Zuma Pay

Merchant-side acceptance and settlement. The consumer balance is Zuma Wallet; borrowing is Zuma Loans.

Accept payments

  • QR code at the till per transaction
  • Payment link / invoice per transaction
  • Online checkout & API per transaction
  • USSD payment (no smartphone) per transaction
  • Card terminal / POS per month
  • Recurring billing & subscriptions per transaction

Get paid out

  • Same-day mobile money settlement per payout
  • Bank settlement per payout
  • Multi-currency settlement per payout
  • Split payouts to partners per payout

Business tools

  • Sales dashboard & reconciliation per month
  • Staff tills with permissions per month
  • Refunds & dispute handling per transaction
  • Tax-ready statements per month

How Zuma Pay works

Accept money from anyone in Africa, on any rail.

  1. 1
    Register the business provider

    Business name, category, and the payout account money should land in.

    ⚙ Merchant record created, sandbox keys issued

  2. 2
    Verify and license-check zuma

    KYB against the market’s regulatory requirements before live keys.

    ⚙ KYB checks, sanctions screen, regulator-specific rules per country

  3. 3
    Choose acceptance methods provider

    QR, link, checkout, USSD or terminal — whatever the customers actually use locally.

    ⚙ Rails enabled per country from the payment_rails matrix

  4. 4
    Pay on a familiar rail customer

    M-Pesa, MoMo, OPay, Wave, card — the customer never learns a new habit.

    ⚙ Rail routed, idempotency key held, retries on timeout

  5. 5
    Confirm, settle, reconcile zuma

    Merchant notified in seconds; funds settle on the agreed cycle.

    ⚙ Ledger double-entry, settlement batch, webhook to merchant

Common questions

Is Zuma Pay available in Praia?

Not yet. Zuma has not opened Zuma Pay in Praia, and we would rather say so than take a booking we cannot fulfil. Join the waitlist and you will hear from us the day it opens.

When will Zuma launch in Praia?

Cabo Verde is in tier 3 of the rollout. We open a market when there are enough verified providers on the ground to serve it properly — waitlist demand is the main input into which city comes next.

What will I be able to pay with in Cabo Verde?

Zuma will support Vinti4 and Card, priced in CVE.

Other Zuma services in Praia

👛Zuma Wallet 🏦Zuma Loans