Tigo Pesa QR

Overview

Tigo Pesa QR is the QR payment scheme of Tigo Pesa (Vodacom/Microlink), East Africa's leading mobile money platform operating in Tanzania, Mozambique, and other African markets. Tigo Pesa serves millions of users across East and Southern Africa and supports QR Code merchant payments, P2P transfers, bill payments, and agent-based cash-in/cash-out.

QR Format

Tigo Pesa QR uses QR Code symbology with a Tigo Pesa-specific UR payload (URL-based, URL QR). The payload contains agent/merchant ID, transaction amount, and Tigo Pesa account data.

Status

Active in Tanzania, Mozambique.

Cross-references

• Tigo Money wallet biography — full biography: history, ownership, technical integration, users, mobile money operations, and comparison with M-Pesa and other East African wallets.
• QR Code — underlying barcode symbology.
• URL QR — payload format for Tigo Pesa QR.

Deployments

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