Cellulant

aid: cellulant
name: Cellulant
description: >-
  Cellulant is a pan-African payments platform headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya,
  operating across 35 African countries. Its flagship product Tingg is a single
  API that lets businesses collect online and offline payments, disburse to
  mobile money wallets and bank accounts, vend airtime and data, pay bills,
  and engage customers by SMS — interoperably across 350+ banks, mobile
  network operators, and card networks. Cellulant processes more than 4.5
  million transactions per day for over 2,000 enterprise merchants and powers
  payments for ~220 million consumers. The Tingg platform exposes three
  primary developer-facing surfaces: Tingg Checkout 3.0 (Express, Custom and
  Direct Card), Tingg Payouts (the Beep global JSON endpoint), and Tingg
  Engage (transactional SMS). Cellulant ships official SDKs for PHP, Python,
  Node.js, .NET, JavaScript, plus a WooCommerce plugin.
type: Index
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Payments
  - Mobile Money
  - Checkout
  - Payouts
  - Disbursement
  - Africa
  - Pan-African
  - Fintech
  - Bank Transfer
  - Cards
  - Airtime
  - Bill Payment
  - SMS
  - OTP
  - Tingg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cellulant/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
  - aid: cellulant:cellulant-tingg-checkout-api
    name: Cellulant Tingg Checkout API
    tags:
      - Payments
      - Checkout
      - Mobile Money
      - Cards
      - Bank Transfer
      - Africa
    humanURL: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/introduction
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/introduction
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/checkout-v3-express-checkout
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/checkout-v3-custom-checkout
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/checkout-v3-direct-card
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/reference/acknowledge-payments
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/reference/4-implement-webhook-via-callback-url-1
        type: Webhook
      - url: openapi/cellulant-checkout-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
      - url: json-schema/cellulant-checkout-request-schema.json
        type: JSONSchema
      - url: json-ld/cellulant-context.jsonld
        type: JSONLD
      - url: examples/cellulant-create-express-checkout-example.json
        type: Example
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/checkout-checkout.yaml
    description: >-
      Tingg Checkout 3.0 — a single integration to collect payments across
      25+ African markets via Express Checkout (hosted/modal), Custom Checkout
      (host-to-host), and the Direct Card API (3DS / 3DS-less / 2D). Supports
      mobile money, cards, direct bank transfer, and 283+ payment methods.
  - aid: cellulant:cellulant-tingg-payouts-api
    name: Cellulant Tingg Payouts API
    tags:
      - Payments
      - Payouts
      - Disbursement
      - Mobile Money
      - Bank Transfer
      - Airtime
      - Africa
    humanURL: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/payouts-get-started
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/payouts-get-started
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/reference/postpayment
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/cellulant-payouts-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
      - url: json-schema/cellulant-payout-packet-schema.json
        type: JSONSchema
      - url: examples/cellulant-post-payment-example.json
        type: Example
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/payouts-payments.yaml
    description: >-
      Tingg Payouts (Beep) — a single global JSON endpoint that dispatches
      postPayment, queryPayment, validateAccount, getBill, getBalance, and
      refundPayment functions for mobile-money B2C, bulk disbursement,
      cross-border bank transfers, airtime/data vending, and bill payments
      (DSTV, GOTV, electricity, water) across 35 African countries.
  - aid: cellulant:cellulant-tingg-engage-api
    name: Cellulant Tingg Engage API
    tags:
      - SMS
      - OTP
      - Notifications
      - Engagement
      - Africa
    humanURL: https://docs.tingg.africa/reference/engagement-service-api-v2
    properties:
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/reference/engagement-service-api-v2
        type: Documentation
      - url: https://docs.tingg.africa/reference/engagement-apis
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/cellulant-engage-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
      - url: examples/cellulant-send-engagement-example.json
        type: Example
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/engage-engagement.yaml
    description: >-
      Tingg Engage — single global entry point for transactional alerts.
      Queue OTP, transactional, and standard SMS with templated parameters
      and receive per-message delivery callbacks.
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.cellulant.io
  - type: Product
    url: https://tingg.africa
  - type: Portal
    url: https://developer.tingg.africa
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.tingg.africa
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/introduction
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.tingg.africa/reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.tingg.africa/docs/checkout-v3-getting-started
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://app.sandbox.tingg.africa
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://app.sandbox.tingg.africa
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://tingg.africa/pricing/
  - type: Checkout
    url: https://tingg.africa/checkout/
  - type: Payouts
    url: https://tingg.africa/payouts/
  - type: PaymentGateway
    url: https://tingg.africa/payment-gateway/
  - type: PaymentPages
    url: https://tingg.africa/payment-pages/
  - type: PaymentInfrastructure
    url: https://www.cellulant.io/business-offerings/payment-infrastructure/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.cellulant.io/category/blog/
  - type: Blog
    url: https://tingg.africa/blog/
  - type: Press
    url: https://www.cellulant.io/category/press-release/
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/CellulantCorp
  - type: SDK
    name: PHP SDK
    url: https://packagist.org/packages/tingg/checkout
  - type: SDK
    name: Python SDK
    url: https://pypi.org/project/Tingg/
  - type: SDK
    name: Node.js SDK
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@tingg-sdk/checkout
  - type: SDK
    name: .NET SDK
    url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Tingg.Checkout.Net
  - type: SDK
    name: JavaScript Checkout Library
    url: https://cdn.cellulant.africa/js/tingg-checkout-library.js
  - type: SDK
    name: Express Checkout PHP Client (source)
    url: https://github.com/CellulantCorp/Express-Checkout-PHP-Client
  - type: SDK
    name: Express Checkout Python (source)
    url: https://github.com/CellulantCorp/express-checkout-python
  - type: SDK
    name: Express Checkout Node.js (source)
    url: https://github.com/CellulantCorp/express-checkout-nodejs
  - type: SDK
    name: Express Checkout C# (source)
    url: https://github.com/CellulantCorp/express-checkout-c-sharp
  - type: Plugin
    name: Tingg WooCommerce Payment Gateway
    url: https://github.com/CellulantCorp/cellulant-tingg-payment-gateway
  - type: Plugin
    name: Tingg WordPress Plugin (WordPress.org)
    url: https://wordpress.org/plugins/cellulant-tingg-checkout/
  - type: Plugin
    name: Mula WordPress Plugin
    url: https://github.com/CellulantCorp/mula-wordpress-plugin
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cellulant-corporation
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/cellulant
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/@CellulantCorp
  - type: Careers
    url: https://www.cellulant.io/careers/
  - type: Contact
    url: https://www.cellulant.io/contact-us/
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.cellulant.io/terms/
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.cellulant.io/privacy-policy/
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/cellulant-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/cellulant-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/cellulant-finops.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/cellulant-vocabulary.yml
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: rules/cellulant-rules.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: [email protected]