• PesaPal

PesaPal

Overview

PesaPal has a rating of 2.5 stars from 18 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. PesaPal ranks 9th among Payment Gateway sites.

  • Service
    3
  • Value
    2
  • Returns
    2
How would you rate PesaPal?
Top Positive Review

“Need improvement but overall good”

Gibson G.
7/9/22

I can say they need improvement, especially when it comes to accepting all cards, but overall good experience. They credit money to my bank within 24 hours

Top Critical Review

“They want to stay with your money”

Smith A.
6/27/22

I got a payment from my customer and they are refusing to credit it in my bank. I don't know if they are getting interest or what. Response from their departments take hours and it's usually an excuse. I would not recommend it to small and big businesses They do not know who their customers they treat them as thieves

Reviews (18)

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Thumbnail of user smitha88
1 review
3 helpful votes
June 27th, 2022

I got a payment from my customer and they are refusing to credit it in my bank. I don't know if they are getting interest or what.
Response from their departments take hours and it's usually an excuse. I would not recommend it to small and big businesses

They do not know who their customers they treat them as thieves

Tip for consumers:
Don't use the platform if there is an alternative

Thumbnail of user enidb17
1 review
9 helpful votes
June 17th, 2020

They were so good when signing up but when the received my payments, rather than credit my account, the stories started how they needed to do more vetting of my details, etc. Thank God by clients were able to dispute with visa about pesapal holding their funds and visa managed to recover the funds. Kampala, USCitizen

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Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Hello Enid,
Thank you for reaching out, we advised on mail, kindly assist us with the details as requested.
Regards

Thumbnail of user kerryl115
1 review
10 helpful votes
May 16th, 2020

For the few times I've bought airtime using PesaPal it has been HELL. I always have to call their customer care line inorder for them to complete the transaction. Sometimes they don't even complete it and just eat my money! I'm NEVER using PesaPal again.

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Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Greetings Kerry,

Apologies for the experience,
Kindly share details of payments made that have you a dispute on, on email helpdesk@pesapal.com.
Also, we recommend our Pesapal mobile App, that betters the payment making process and from which you can pay via your credit card.

Thank you.

Thumbnail of user bobs1184
1 review
8 helpful votes
May 31st, 2020

Month after month my subscription payments via Pesapal to JTL are not registered. Often my internet service gets disconnected for non-payment, when actually it is just that Pesapal haven't forwarded that payment and JTL have to chase them for it. I have encouraged JTL to stop using Pesapal.

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Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Greetings Bob,

We appreciate your feedback, Apologies for the previous experience. Kindly share details of your latest payments on email helpdesk@pesapal.com to enable us check further and address the issue accordingly.

Thank you.

Thumbnail of user melissab474
1 review
21 helpful votes
August 3rd, 2019

Never trust these bastards! They hold your money forever and claim to reverse it which they never will, Poor customer service, I don't think if your boss knows all about your stupid work experience. You need a zero rating you morons! I'm opening a case very soon.

Thumbnail of user judys413
1 review
14 helpful votes
July 3rd, 2019

Pesapal is simply a primitive attempt at providing online payments. They have no idea of customer service and they are very defensive (which is usual when someone feels insecure in the service they are offering). They reversed 7 payments which our bank had approved because they claim our details didn't match up. But the bank had approved the payment! We then spent 6 hours on international calls trying to resolve it, and they are still saying it is our fault! Pesapal, if you want to compete in an international world, you are going to have to get a little more efficient and internationally minded than this.

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Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Greetings Judy, as explained to you, all your payments failed because of detected fraud, and we further called to guide on how to have this resolved. Should you need any explanation on this, you can reach out to us on helpdesk@pesapal.com

Thumbnail of user athanasek
1 review
15 helpful votes
July 18th, 2019

Their verification method is confusing, they will let your clients pay you using their system.

The day you will decide to withdraw your money from the system, even the money that lasts in for longer, they will ask all of your clients to submit their bank statements, Identity copies, credit card and many things which your clients will never agree to submit their privacy data, then once clients disagree, payment will be reversed, and you will beg your clients to pay you again and your company will not look professional.

If you are looking for a Payment Gateway use Online Direct Pay I have been with them for 3years never facing any trouble with them or you can use Barclays bank it has a smart payment gateway I'm using it for a year never disappoint.

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Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Greetings Athanase,

Kindly note that verification of transactions that are marked as suspicious is a process meant to protect your business from fraudulent activity early enough to avoid receiving charge-backs. The process is carried out with your involvement as the business owner so that you are aware of everything taking place.

We appreciate your feedback on our process, and will consider the same as we keep improving our processes.

Regards

Thumbnail of user maggiek17
1 review
18 helpful votes
April 7th, 2017

I just signed with them but their website is not accepting feedback messages. It reports error. "Sorry, an error occurred while processing your request. We are working to fix it as soon as we can" I feel scared doing business with them. If a small issue with website feedback can not be fixed, how about money issues. Reviews are so discouraging. Goodbye pesapal. Goodbye.

Thumbnail of user markm369
Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Greetings Maggie - It's unfortunate that the feedback form did not deliver your message, we've checked and confirm it works OK. You can kindly send your feedback to helpdesk@pesapal.com or info@pesapal.com - We will be able to assist you accordingly

Thumbnail of user abelk14
1 review
17 helpful votes
October 11th, 2017

Wow a lot of Negative reviews. I will add my experience to it. I would give Pesa Pal a 0 star if I had that option. There website do not work at all when you call customer care they are always in self-defense mood never admitting their mistakes, never correcting their mistakes and making a customer looks like a fool for reporting a problem. I personally stopped calling after they made me look like i didn't know what I was doing after my payment to buy airtime using my visa card has failed more than 24 times though my card works perfectly with other website. Good luck Pesa Pal I wonder what type of business you are running. Good luck. Please don't reply by defending yourself it is helping no one you will do well by Just fixing your problems. Good luck.
Abel

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Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Support A. [Pesapal Rep] Hi Abel,

Thank-you for your review. Your concerns have been noted and your feedback is highly valued.

Just a point of clarification and correction. Our fraud management system flags transactions for various reasons, one of them being the frequent use of a card within a short span of time.

Kindly drop us an email on helpdesk@pesapal.com detailing the specific issue to enable us to address it accordingly.

Thanks.

Thumbnail of user petern53
1 review
13 helpful votes
June 27th, 2017

Very quick in responding to my review as it is public just to try and clear their image. I still have issues that have not been addressed and no one has responded to e-mails despite them have been read. In my opinion you are loosing it by just keeping quiet.

Thumbnail of user markm369
Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Hello Peter,

We appreciate your support for using our service and are really sorry to learn that your recent Pesapal experience was less than satisfactory.

We understand your frustration at trying to get through to our customer service team and we apologize for that. In future, kindly log onto our support portal ~ support.pesapal.com for hasty responses on any issues regarding your payments.

Kindly note that we no longer verify customer details manually, this is done through an automated fraud process.

On documents required for withdrawal of collections, we clearly state this on our registration page, as well as on the activation email we send once you register a Business account on Pesapal.

The reason we allow you to start transaction before you provide the documents is to enable you to do actual transaction tests, which are limited to KSh. 1,000 and on signing the contract, and providing the documents, the limit is removed.

Kindly drop us an email on marketing@pesapal.com to enable us to follow up on this issue accordingly.

Thumbnail of user gaetanc
1 review
12 helpful votes
November 27th, 2016

I had the worst experience ever with this morons. They are arrogant, they don't even reply to emails. They have no policy or statement on there website about providing the necessary documents during registration, they only start asking you for that when you are about to make a withdrawal from your account. Intergration is also another big problem that you either have to be a techy or pay lots of money to an expert to do it for you. This doesn't help at all if they want to grow. They should learn from people like PayPal where you only need your email address and ur ready for business.the concept is a brilliant idea I must say but the people behind it must be very big morons who have no sense of entrepreneurship.

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Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Gaetan - We are sorry to hear that your experience started as such. The email that is sent with the details to integrate indicates the details of how to finalize your account setup to ensure no problems for settlement. We have also provided plugins to simplify integration, as well as a payments page that you can use without need for technical know-how. You can reach us on developer@pesapal.com to ensure your integration works ok, and see how we can use existing tools to ensure you are well on your way to have online payments work for you.

Thumbnail of user roseg53
1 review
12 helpful votes
July 20th, 2017

I HAPPEN TO PAY MONEY TO A WRONG ACCOUNT YESTERDAY AT AROUND 4:24am SO I IMMEDIATELY CALLED SAFARICOM WHICH WERE VERY HELPFUL AND GAVE ME A NUMBER TO CALL SINCE THEY SAID THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO REVERSE IT ON THEIR END. I CALLED AND SOMEONE BY THE NAME BETTY OF WHICH DIDNT WANT TELL ME WHAT HER NAME WAS AT FIRST, ANSWERED ON THE OTHER END. OMG THIS WPMAN WAS VERY RUDE.AT FIRST SHE WAS BUSY CHATTING ON SKYPE COZ I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THE POP SOUND OF MESSAGES COMING IN AND I KNEW IT WAS SKYPE.THE SOUND WAS SO LOUD ON MY EAR AND I KINDLY ASKED HER TO MURE THE SOUND SO I COULD ADDRESS HER REGARDING MY ISSUE TRUST U SHE DIDNT MUTE AND CONTINUE WITH THE CHAT. I WENT AHEAD TO ADDRESS HER BIT THENY CREDIT DIED.SO I TOPPED UP AND CALLED SINCE I HAD NOT GOT MY ISSUE RESOLVED. WHEM I CALLED ANOTHER LADY ANSWERED DIFFERENT NAME AND SHE I TOLD HER I HAD CALLED EARLY BUT IF IT WAS OK FOR HER TO HELP AS WELL SHE SAID SHE, WILL ASK THE PERSON I HAD TALKED TO EARLY I WONDERED WHY SHE, COUNDNT HELP ME. SHE CALLS BACK AND SAYS BETTY SAID SHE WAS NOT AVAILABLE. SINCE I ADDRESSED THEM ABOUT MY ISSUE YESTERDAY TILL JUST NOW I CALLED THEM. I CALLED THEM AGAIN JUST NOW GUESS WHAT FIRST THING INTO MY EAR WAS THAT SOUND OF MASSAGES POP SOUND SHE TOLD ME SHE TOLD ARROGANTLY I HAVENT RECEIVED ANY EMAIL FROM ZUKU OF WHI H I HAD PAID THE AMOUNT TO WHO WERE TO EMAIL THEM AND GIVE THEM GO AGEAD TO REVERSE THE CASH AS THE PTHER LADY HAD ASKED ME TO CALL. SINCE YESTERDAY UP TO NOW MY MONEY HASNT BEEN REVERSE D BACK. I WOULDNT ADVICE ANYONE TO USE THIS PEOPLE AT ALL. STAFF VERY DONT CARE AND ARROGANT NO CUSTOMER CARE IN TGEM AT ALL. WHY TAKE FOR EVER TO REVERSE MY MONEY BACK.

Thumbnail of user markm369
Support A. – PesaPal Rep

Hello Rose,

We'd like to apologize sincerely for your negative experience with one of our customer service representatives. As you are well aware, we have been in touch with you on phone and are working fast to resolve your issue on the payment you made.
Please also note that we are following up with our customer service team and will take appropriate action. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It will help us improve our operations and services.

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