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Hubtel Webstore – A Free E-commerce Platform For Businesses

If you operate a brick and mortar business, your next smart move will be to move your store online.

Many businesses lose out on potential sales because they do not have an online presence. As human interactions go digital, so are competitive businesses reaching customers online. Having an online presence reduces the number of physical locations businesses need to serve customers and opens a wider customer base to the business at the same time. Imagine setting up a business in Accra and getting orders from all over the country. A good webstore or e-commerce website makes this possible.

Enter, the Hubtel Webstore – built to offer businesses an online storefront for customers to transact with them.

What is Hubtel Webstore?

This is built for businesses to make their wares and services available online for customers. Customers will be able to place orders and make payments on the webstore. Here’s a great alternative for businesses who wish to have an online presence but don’t have the means to set up one.

What is the Cost Involved?

Nothing! ?

Like seriously. It is absolutely free for all businesses. As long as you have a Hubtel account with verified business information, you will have access to the Hubtel Webstore. If you need to sign up for Hubtel POS, simply create a free account at hubtel.com/pos.

You’ll find below sample pages from a demo webstore account. Your customers will be able to pay for your products/services using your unique webstore link. You can give your webstore link to your customers so they can easily make payments to your business.  Check out our very own webstore: hubtel.com/store

Interested?

Sign up for a free Hubtel POS account at hubtel.com/pos

Hubtel.me – The Rewards Never End

You’ve probably bought airtime or internet bundle today. The question is: Did you get anything extra after making the purchase?? That’s aside from the actual internet bundle or airtime you paid for. If not, this is a chance to jump on some freebies – cash actually.

I  bet you’ve spent more than GHS100 this month alone on airtime. Unless you’re not monitoring – which you should. Plus if you bought the said airtime using the Hubtel.me app, you’d have a history of the transaction right in the app?

The Only App That Rewards You For Using It

Hubtel.me is a loyalty app from Hubtel. It gives you free loyalty points for every transaction you make on the app. These points can be redeemed for cash, internet bundle, and even mobile money. Sweet huh?
If you want to view just how much you can earn with this app for every transaction, check out the expected rewards at www.hubtel.me. See the example below. This is assuming you spend GHS100 cedis on airtime, internet bundle, mobile money, etc:

From the image above, you’ll realize there are various levels with varying expected rewards. You can easily increase your membership level based on the volume of transactions you perform in a given period. It’s a win-win situation here – perform more transactions to earn more free cash.

One interesting thing about the app is that you can still perform transactions when you have no internet access. Simply dial *711# to access the basic functions the app provides such as purchasing airtime and bundle.

Download Hubtel.me

The app is available for both Android and iPhone With Hubtel.me, the rewards never end?

The Minister of Tourism Arts and Culture, Hon. Catherine Abelema Afeku, on 2nd June 2018, installed an automated revenue collection device at the Wli Water Falls. The revenue collection point is powered by Hubtel POS, in partnership with MTN Business.

The initiative is to keep track of the number of tourists patronizing the site and also monitor the amount of revenue generated from Wli Water Falls. Visitors and tourists can pay for their entry tickets with any mobile money wallet, bank card, or cash. The paying visitor is sent an SMS receipt.

The Hon. Minister on the same accord introduced similar measures at the Cape Coast and Elmina Castles. This intervention is aimed in part, at helping address revenue challenges faced by tourist attractions across the country. It will also provide convenience to users who will be relieved from the challenge of carrying bulk sums of cash.

About Hubtel POS

Hubtel enables businesses to sell, serve and engage with their customers. Hubtel POS helps businesses of any size to receive payment, track sales, and inventory. All payments received can also be tracked by the account manager in charge of the Hubtel POS account. This provides a seamless experience.

Businesses of any size can use Hubtel POS to collect all forms of payments from any mobile money wallet and bank card issued in Ghana.

Find out more about Hubtel POS at hubtel.com/pos.

Hubtel has been adjudged the Best Payment Gateway Provider of the year, claiming two other awards at the just ended GITTA Awards ceremony.

Hubtel scored a hat trick of awards at the event, bagging Best Mobile Cloud Service Provider of The Year and Best Payment Gateway Provider of The Year, while CEO, Alex Bram copped The Fintech Leader of the Year award.

About GITTA Awards

Now in its 8th year, the Ghana Information Technology & Telecom Awards is the most prestigious awards program in the industry. Popularly dubbed, “the Oscar Awards” in the industry, the Awards recognize innovation and excellence in the Ghana ICT sector.

Over the years, beyond promoting excellence in the telecom sector, GITTA has evolved and extended its reach to include companies which have taken efforts to innovate their operations and products through the adoption of technology.

GITTA has become one of the industry’s most prized honours. It is an accolade given to individuals and teams and is a vindication of the hard work, innovation and dedication of those at the forefront of this dynamic global sector.

Hubtel, in collaboration with MTN Business has launched the first-ever digital payment system at the two major castles in Ghana: Cape Coast and Elmina Castles.

This is in line with the government’s goal to make Ghana a fully digitized economy when it comes to payments in the country. Staff from Hubtel were present to set up the Hubtel POS storefront and to train the sales personnel at the premises on how to use it to collect payments from customers.

Visitors and tourists can pay for their entry tickets with any mobile money wallet, bank card, or cash. An electronic receipt is sent to their phones as proof of payment.

About Hubtel POS

Hubtel enables businesses to sell, serve and engage with their customers. Hubtel POS helps businesses of any size to receive payment, track sales, and inventory. All payments received can also be tracked by the account manager in charge of the Hubtel POS account. This provides a seamless experience.

No matter the size of your business, you can use Hubtel POS to collect all forms of payments from any mobile money wallet and bank card issued in Ghana.

Find out more about Hubtel POS at hubtel.com/pos.

Goodbye Mobile Money Fraud ?

As part of efforts to improve the security of Mobile Money payments, MTN has introduced a new way for customers to approve transactions. Starting Monday 6th August, 2018.

Customers will no longer receive prompts to enter their PIN to confirm transactions. Instead, they will have to approve the transaction themselves on their phone.

All other services which require debits on a customer’s wallet will have to go through the approval process before it can be completed.

This move is meant to help reduce the number of fraud activities that occurs regularly on Mobile Money. If this goes well, we may see a new form of added security on Mobile Money transactions. It will mean that customers will have to “intentionally approve” payment requests from a vendor or third party.

Here’s how to approve a payment request:

1. Dial *170# and select Option 10, My Wallet.
2. Select Option 2 for My Approvals.
3. Enter PIN to get your Pending Approval List.
4. Select pending transaction to approve.
5. Select Option 1 YES to approve the transaction OR Option 2 NO to reject the transaction

Customer receives an SMS as confirmation for a successful transaction.

In the past, developing USSD applications was a specialized activity that was typically performed by network engineers who had some level of professional training. Just see how many USSD developer jobs are listed on LinkedIn.

Over the last few years, banks and other large companies have deployed their USSD applications at great cost due to the engineering effort and equipment required. Until very recently, individuals and small organizations could never even dream of building their own USSD apps.

But now, something truly incredible has happened, with the end result being that:

• It’s suddenly very easy for developers to build USSD apps
• The utility of USSD has exceeded use cases far beyond what its designers originally imagined

In order for us to understand the incredibly unlikely sequence of events that took place to cause this, we must go all the way back, to the beginning of the mobile revolution.

Continue to full story…

13 years of innovating! Hubtel’s story has been nothing short of amazing. 

About Hubtel 

Hubtel is a leading indigenous Ghanaian tech company that makes it easy for people to find and pay for everyday essentials and connect with businesses. The company has a mobile application that lets you order food and everyday essentials, pay bills, and make payments. 

The company’s mission is to drive Africa forward by enabling everyone to find and pay for everyday essentials. Hubtel is aiming to be Africa’s most useful company; building a platform that everyone can find, pay, and easily partake in the emerging digital economy across the continent.

Read more about Hubtel’s story in recent years here.

We were privileged to have reps from UBA pay a working visit to our head office in Kokomlemle over the week. The sales team took them on a test drive to have an experience with the Hubtel POS setup.

By popular demand, we’ve made it possible for you to buy Gratis points as gift cards for others. Spread the love and share the feeling.

Customize gift cards and express yourself in your own words to those special people. How’s that for cool?

How it works:

• Go to More
• Select “Send a Gift Card”
• Choose gift card type (Happy Birthday, Thank You, Good Luck Charm, Congratulations or I Love You).
• Customize your message, add recipient number, amount and send.

Recipients can redeem the points as cash and use for any service on the app.

Let your family, friends and loved ones hear from you differently with the new Gift Card Feature.

The new Hubtel.me Gift Card feature is a simple way to express our deepest thoughts to the people that mean the most to us. Download the Hubtel.me app now and share the feeling.

The Rewards Never End.

What a special day. The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia paid a working visit to our head office in Kokomlemle, Accra on Monday, March 26.

Our Chief Executive Officer, Alex Adjei Bram, took Dr. Bawumia through the services of the firm after a familiarization tour of the office.

In his conversation with the Vice President, Alex Bram explained that Hubtel’s solutions are designed to enhance merchants’ businesses by offering a single platform where payments, customer engagement, and loyalty are managed. He continued that “We basically started this company with GHC15 but today we have branches in Ghana and Kenya. Our first product was bulk SMS which helped to enhance the communication system of businesses.” Alex Bram also talked about ongoing work with the Ghana Police Service and the company’s newly launched Pledge to donate 1% of its products and profits to worthy causes.

Dr. Bawumia was impressed by the youthfulness of the team at Hubtel. He lauded the firm and assured management of government’s commitment to creating an enabling environment for indigenous IT firms to thrive. He said, “We are happy there is so much talent in Ghana. We as a government want to create the environment for businesses to thrive in education, revenue collection, data management, and more. We want to encourage and support you.”

We are honored to have been among the technology companies selected. We are humbled and remain committed to doing our part to support businesses of all sizes and ensure technology plays a useful part in improving customer service across the country.