Smartel Money LTD held a public awareness initiative last Friday, aimed at aiding businesses and the general public towards a cashless society.
Smartel Money LTD is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the modern ICT platforms as well as using the mobile and non-mobile platforms as well as using the freely downloaded applications.
It is an internet based e-commerce payment system, which intends to be a payment processor for online vendors as well as click and brick businesses, auction sites, grocers and other commercial users, for which it charges a fee.
The government of Lesotho has announced plans to reduce the handling of cash and replacing it with a digital payment system, in a bid to reduce the spread of Covid-19. Smartel Money is one of five mobile money issuers in the country. Their aim is to help businesses and individuals. They provide full business systems platforms, full personal systems of the use of mobile money.
According to Smartel Money managing director Nchai Nchai, “the aim is to maximize financial inclusion; we cater for everyone who wishes to utilize our services, young and old alike, tech savvy or not.”
