Airtime · ZESA · Zimbabwe
Send airtime or buy a ZESA token right now — no account needed. Or set it for Friday, for month-end, for the day after payday, every month, and stop being the one who has to remember.
Airtime to any Zimbabwean number, or a ZESA token to any meter. Pay with EcoCash, OneMoney or card.
Only here
Pick the day and we do the rest. One time, or every week, every two weeks, every month — on a date you choose, on the last working day before payday, or on the very last day of the month.
For a one-off
Choose “Later” in the box above. Pay now; it goes out Friday at 5, or the 1st at 9. No account needed.
For someone you look after
Sign in, add gogo once, set “$5 airtime, every month, around payday”. It goes out month after month. Skip a month with one tap when you need to.
For a team
Airtime for 50 field agents on the 25th, every month, with a cap per person.
Set it in September; it’s still going out in December.
What’s going out this month, before it goes
Open any line to change the day, skip a month, or send it now. Every top-up keeps its receipt.
MyFamilyTime
Add the people you look after. Pick what to send and when. It goes out on the day, with your message on the SMS, whether you remembered or not.
It’s the 30th. Salary just landed. You meant to send gogo airtime so she could call — and you forgot. Again. Set it once; it goes out on the 30th, every month.
Token finished, kids can’t study, everyone’s phone is at 4%. Set a ZESA top-up for the 1st and the 15th and the meter stops surprising you.
$2 every Friday after school so they can call on the way home. Small, regular, and you stop reaching for your phone.
You don’t want to pay $5 in fees to send $5 of airtime, and you don’t want the “did anyone send mum’s ZESA?” thread every month. Top up by card; it arrives in seconds, on the day.
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Add a person — name, number or meter.
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Choose what, how much, and when.
3
Keep your wallet topped up. That’s it.
ZESA Rate Watch
ZESA charges in steps: the first 50 units of a calendar month are the cheapest, the next 50 cost a bit more, and so on up six bands — then everything resets on the 1st. Most people never know which step they’re on. We watch the real cost of units from the tokens people buy here, and say something before you pay.
Step widths are the published band sizes, set by ZERA and applied by ZETDC. Heights are indicative, not to scale.
What units cost here
We work out the cost per unit from tokens bought here, and we haven’t seen enough this month to say anything useful yet. The steps still apply: the first units you buy each month are the cheapest, and they reset on the 1st. Check back in a few days, or buy now if you need to — your purchase helps us learn.
What units cost here
Our estimate of dollars-per-unit this week, learned from actual purchases — so when the tariff moves without an announcement, you’ll see it.
“It’s the 28th and this meter has already bought this month — these units are probably in a higher band. Buy enough to reach the 1st, and schedule the big one for the 1st.”
Put the month’s ZESA on the 1st. Only we can do the schedule part.
These are our estimates from purchases made here — not official ZESA or ZETDC figures. The exact tariff is set by ZERA; we’re telling you what we’ve seen.
How it works
1 · Add a person
A phone number for airtime, a meter number for ZESA, and a name so you know who’s who. Ten seconds.
2 · Choose the day
Every Friday. The 25th. Around payday. The last day of the month. Weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Skip any month with one tap.
3 · Keep the wallet topped up
Top up once by card, EcoCash or OneMoney. On the day, it goes out with your message on the SMS. If your wallet’s short, nothing is sent and nothing is owed — it shows as skipped and goes out next time once you’ve topped up.
From outside Zimbabwe
You don’t need EcoCash. Top up your wallet by card and the airtime or ZESA token goes straight to the person in Zimbabwe — in seconds, on the day you set. No agent, no queue, no “the system is down today”.
Who it lands on
Airtime for your team
Monthly airtime for staff and field agents: a list of people with a cap each, a schedule that goes out on the 25th, a spend report by department your accountant will accept.
Survey rewards
Pay respondents airtime the moment they finish, from KoboToolbox, SurveyCTO or Google Forms, with duplicate and fraud controls and a budget that stops itself.
API
One POST to send airtime or ZESA, signed webhooks, a prepaid wallet, and honest failure states.
FAQ
No. To send airtime or buy ZESA once — even for later today or next Friday — just use the box at the top and pay. An account is for schedules that repeat, your wallet, and MyFamilyTime. You sign in with a code sent to WhatsApp or SMS; there’s no password to remember.
Airtime for Econet, NetOne and Telecel — we work out the network from the number. ZESA prepaid tokens in USD or ZWG. Amounts from $0.30.
We’re not ZESA and we’re not a network. We’re a registered reseller: your airtime and tokens come through the operators’ official channels, the same ones the banks and EcoCash use. The token you get is a normal ZETDC token — 20 digits, typed into the meter like any other.
For a one-off, choose “Later” in the box, pick a day and time, and pay now — it goes out then. For something that repeats, sign in, add the person, and choose every week, every two weeks or every month; on a date, around payday (the last working day of the month), or on the very last day. We send it at the time you set. You can skip a month, pause, or send it now, any time.
If you paid from your wallet, the money is back in your wallet automatically. If you paid once-off by EcoCash, OneMoney or card, we refund you to the way you paid — your order reference is on the status page; if you haven’t heard from us within two working days, WhatsApp us with it. If the network takes a moment to confirm, we keep checking and settle it either way; you’re never charged twice for one order.
Nothing is sent and nothing is owed. It shows as “Skipped — wallet low” on your family page, and goes out at the next scheduled time once you’ve topped up.
No — and we say so wherever we show it. ZESA’s tariff is set by ZERA in six monthly steps. What we show is our estimate of the real cost per unit this week, worked out from the tokens people actually bought here (units received ÷ dollars paid). It’s for deciding when to buy, not a price list. The band we think your meter is on only counts purchases made through us; if you’ve bought elsewhere this month, tell us and we’ll adjust.
Not exactly — it’s cheaper for the first units you buy each month, whatever the date. If you haven’t bought this month, today is as good as the 1st. If you already have, the next units cost more until the 1st, when the steps reset. That’s why we suggest buying just enough to reach the 1st, then the month’s supply on the 1st.
No platform fee for personal use. You pay the airtime or token amount plus the normal payment processing fee on card and mobile-money payments. Teams and API accounts are priced separately.
Yes. Each of you sets up your own schedule for her under your own account — a $5 from you on the 1st and a $5 from him on the 15th, for example. Every top-up keeps a receipt you can screenshot into the family group.
Yes. Add a message and it goes on the SMS with the airtime — “From Tino” or whatever you like. Your name, not a shortcode.
One-off with no account, or sign in with a WhatsApp code and set up the people you look after in about a minute.
