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The New Hubtel Website – A Whole New Experience

Everyone loves new things. Over the past few months, we have been working on a whole new experience for our website, from the constant feedback we received from you. We have taken the time to rebuild our entire product offering nearly from scratch.

Some key changes you will notice include:

• Simplified login with your mobile number, and a One-Time-Password via SMS.
• Clean separation between your personal account with Hubtel and that for businesses you are associated with.
• A free webstore to process online orders and sales directly from your inventory.
• Simpler, less complicated features to access your business dashboard, sales and customer information.
• Simple features to offer gifts and rewards with your customers.

New Means More – But Simple

We will be adding even more features to help your business sell more and delight customers, over the coming weeks and months.

Have a look at the all-new website here: hubtel.com

Got some cool feature(s) you would want us to add? Drop us an email at [email protected]

We have exciting news! From Thursday, July 26, 2018 Hubtel POS card readers will be able to process MasterCard along with all the other options – mobile money, GH_Link, Visa, Visa_Electron, V_Pay, and Maestro.

Cheers to growing your sales and building stronger engagements with your loyal customers.

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

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.

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.

As governments deepen their commitment to introduce citizens to a cashless economy, a key challenge to businesses and customers is the availability of affordable, convenient, and secure means of making cashless transactions. While some point-of-sale devices and cashless payment methods are available on the market, small and medium-sized businesses remain outpriced. Regular customers are largely unenthused in spite of the superior benefits of cash-lite transactions. The problem is exacerbated by different financial institutions offering different payment platforms. Mobile money services, run by telcos, remain unintegrated.

A contributing factor to this general disinterest in going cash-lite has been that existing technologies, mostly imported, do not satisfy the demands of the local market. Device costs, a requirement for internet connection in a market with unreliable connectivity, and concerns about security adversely affect customers’ appreciation and adoption of cashless platforms.

Hubtel POS is a solution designed with the necessities of developing economies like Ghana in mind. With Hubtel POS, all existing bank cards and mobile money wallets are integrated into one platform. This means businesses will be able to accept and process payments into one business wallet irrespective of the bank card or the mobile money wallet that the customer carries.

This streamlining of cashless payments means that businesses will no longer have to depend on multiple financial institutions for multiple point-of-sale devices, connected to different bank accounts. The barrier of customers unable to make payments for goods and services from mobile money wallets has been eliminated – it no longer matters which mobile money wallet a customer has, payments can be initiated easily from any phone.

With a single platform that processes payments from Visa, MasterCard, GHLink bank cards, and all mobile money wallets, Hubtel brings a keen understanding of the Ghanaian market to the industry. Hubtel offers businesses who sign up a free card reader to process bank card payments. On Hubtel POS, transactions for cash, card, and mobile money are instantly recorded; and customers receive free SMS receipts. Managers can sell and manage sales orders from their inventory. Hubtel POS also gives managers and business owners access to real-time reporting tools that help track sales and inform decision-making.

This introduction might just be the catalyst for the disruption that the market has been waiting for. The desire to bring innovative solutions to local business problems has once again introduced a product that understands the market it is intended for. This competent understanding of the market might just be what sets this new point of sale apart from what already exists. With businesses like KFC, Allied Oil, Compu Ghana, Equity Pharmacy and Jinlet Pharmacy and many others already using Hubtel POS, the market is lighting up for cashless transactions.