Safaricom MPESA rates Archives

Safaricom to reward customers through the M-PESA Sokoni Festival campaign

Samson NderiJune 3, 2025

Safaricom has announced a nationwide campaign, dubbed the M-PESA Sokoni Festival, aimed rewarding customers with product offers. The festival is part of the yea...

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Safaricom M-PESA celebrates 18 years of existence; officially launches Ziidi MMF

Samson NderiMarch 7, 2025

Safaricom's mobile money service M-PESA has today marked 18 years since its launch in March 2007. M-PESA is currently available in more than 170 countries globa...

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Safaricom M-Pesa charges for 2025

Samson NderiJanuary 7, 2025

M-PESA is Safaricom's mobile money service that allows Kenyans to send money to each other, pay bills and transact online. Safaricom M-PESA customers can sen...

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Safaricom & Onafriq partner to stimulate flow of remittances to Ethiopia

Makena Ndung'uMarch 20, 2024

Safaricom has signed an International Money Transfer Agreement with Onafriq to help streamline remittance flows to Ethiopia. Onafriq is a digital payments ne...

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Safaricom increases transaction limit to Ksh. 250,000

Staff WriterSeptember 21, 2023

Safaricom has increased M-PESA transactions limit to KSh. 250,000 for each transaction up from Ksh. 150,000. The move will see the addition of a new transact...

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New M-PESA charges effective January 1 2021

Samson NderiJanuary 5, 2021

Safaricom, in December 2020, announced new charges for money transfers below Ksh. 2,500 on M-PESA, effective 1st January 2021. Charges for money transfers over ...

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Safaricom to reduce M-PESA charges for transactions worth Ksh. 2,500 & below

Samson NderiDecember 22, 2020

Safaricom has announced that it will reduce charges for money transfers below Ksh. 2,500 on its mobile money platform, M-PESA, effective 1st January 2021. Charg...

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New M-Pesa charges effective July 1 2018

James WamathaiJuly 1, 2018

Safaricom has today adjusted their M-Pesa charges. According to the company, the change was necessitated by the Finance Bill 2018 which raises the excise tax on...

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How to top up PayPal via M-Pesa in Kenya

James WamathaiApril 9, 2018

You can now be able to top up your PayPal account via M-Pesa in Kenya. To top up your account, you need to do the following: 1. Have a PayPal account. 2....

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Comparison of the new and old MPESA Charges

James WamathaiAugust 20, 2014

Safaricom yesterday announced a revision of transaction charges on MPESA. They specifically reduced the sending fees between registered MPESA users. All oth...

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MPESA charges effective August 2014

James WamathaiAugust 20, 2014

Safaricom has decided to revise downwards the transaction charges for small amounts for their mobile money service M-PESA, a year after raising them. The transa...

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Safaricom MPESA rates

Safaricom to reward customers through the M-PESA Sokoni Festival campaign

Safaricom M-PESA celebrates 18 years of existence; officially launches Ziidi MMF

Safaricom M-Pesa charges for 2025

Safaricom & Onafriq partner to stimulate flow of remittances to Ethiopia

Safaricom increases transaction limit to Ksh. 250,000

New M-PESA charges effective January 1 2021

Safaricom to reduce M-PESA charges for transactions worth Ksh. 2,500 & below

New M-Pesa charges effective July 1 2018

How to top up PayPal via M-Pesa in Kenya

Comparison of the new and old MPESA Charges

MPESA charges effective August 2014