In Uganda, talk about modern transport and listen to the rhythm of both the Taxi hailing sector and a Boda hailing wing dominated by Uber and SafeBoda respectively. Well, the latter has a unique cashless travel feature chronated as SafeBoda credit and its something we’re excited to explore as a great cash alternative

Imagine if you could request for a motorbike to your next destination and had no worries of paying an extra penny from your wallet? This is the credit advisory preached by the orange wing.

As a matter of fact, SafeBoda credit comes with a couple of benefits with the biggest featured as a discount on all trips taken without paying cash. Additionally, no taxes exist between the depositing links and usage rate now that mobile money tax is only applicable to withdraws.

Using SafeBoda credit

Any good service is rated by its reliability and upstream section of efficiency. With SafeBoda credit, efficiency and real-time trip initiations are drothers in the same zone. After each and every trip, the app slashes off a simple drop of your total credit as the trip fare without you worrying about any payments at your destination spot.

To use SafeBoda credit, all you need is a Yello or Smartphone network line registered on MTN Momo or Airtel Money respectively. Additionally, you need to signup or login to your Orange flated hailing app to deposit credit in a flip.

In case you have a mobile money cry out, you can choose to increase your Mokash or Wewole limit for some pay later cash. Other than that, follow these steps to top up credit for your cashless SafeBoda trips using mobile money.

Step1: Login to your SafeBoda account

Step 2: Click Payments and choose top up

Step 3: Enter amount and target mobile number to deposit funds from

Step 4: Approve mobile money transaction and re-open the SafeBoda app

Step 5: Check your credit balance under the Payments bar and travel cashlessly

Best Way to Top Up

Did you know that your Driver is actually a credit booth on the run? Well, all drivers now have the power to gift you some cashless credit in exchange for cash. All you need to do is ask a random SafeBoda driver to top up your account and pay back with cash. Here is a quick direction of the steps.

Step1: Ask the driver to sell you credit in exchange for cash

Step 2: Give the driver your account phone number

Step 3: Check if credit has been toped up and Pay the driver cash of the amount transferred

Step 4: Enjoy traveling without cash

Either way, the orange camp also has several credit centers with the central point of them all being their Kamwokya based headquarters where you can recharge your account by swapping cash for credit. So, if you can’t cope with the mobile money charges or drivers becoming rare like grasshoppers, you can choose to walk to any available recharge point

As the cashless revolution simply reflects what the future holds where cash will be a long-gone story for decades with no need to have a note/coin in your wallet. This can be evidenced through the previous OPEN API Cashless challenge where MTN is powering up Mobile money based solutions through its innovation challenge. More so, as Bolt and Uber ship credit cards as the only cashless top-up method, they’re also worth to craze up with for cashless travels.

With only a few weeks after Taxify bowed to rider ratings and rebranded to bolt, the orange camp reply is revolutionary by making cashless travel the number 1 priority for all riders. As a matter of fact, SafeBoda credit is just an easy to top up trick every rider can rely on to hail on a Boda in Kampala.

In 2017, the orange branded boda hailing camp used to offer a 100% bonus on credit top-ups and it’s by no doubt that this trend is slowly resurrecting from a max discount zone. If you’re a SafeBoda customer, all you have to do is replace your cash schedule with a mobile money in-app top up to hang on a 50% off all trips line.

To top up SafeBoda credit, Go to the app’s payment option and choose top up with Mobile money to approve purchase through your Airtel/MTN Mobile money line. Amazingly, the new 50% discount applies to all trips taken and the new fare is displayed before you request/pair a driver.

Although the 50% slash off all cashless trips comes at a time when the orange camp tipped drivers with a hike during on-peak hours. The new discount is applicable to only Cashless trips meaning the usual rates remain constant for cash riders with a favor to credit subscribers.

As one of the leaders in a fast moving industry, safeboda offers two payment options inclusive of Cash and credit payments, and here is how you can easily load credit on your safeboda account and travel cashlessly.

Using Mobile money

In July, mobile money tax was introduced as an extra remedy to the national GDP. As much as officials welcomed the 0.5% tax resolution over the past 1% version, When buying safeboda credit, you don’t incur any taxes. So, in order to buy safeboda credit using mobile money, all you need to do is initiate a favorable amount from within the app before approving purchase off your mobile money account.

Visiting an MTN service center

A few months back, Safeboda only had one solution towards their credit payment method. However, Safeboda credit is now available at  MTN forestmall, Kampala road, and crested towers service centers. Even when the list of supported service centers is still narrow, the company has plans of availing more purchase points for those who can’t move to a close MTN service center

Using a Safeboda booth

A safeboda booth is a concept everyone would be surprised about, But this particular payments booth can only be used to purchase safeboda credit. In addition, the company has one booth so far and its accessible at their Kamwokya based offices off bukoto street. More so, its the best free option for those who wish to purchase credit for those willing to take less time with no charges affiliated.

All ride-hailing apps have only 2 payment options inclusive of cash and credit payments. While Taxify Boda and Uber allow you to enter your bank card for credit payments. Safeboda, on the other hand, accepts mobile money which turns the whole process fun. Let’s take a look at these 2 popular available options with Safeboda only supporting Mobile money payments at the moment.

Credit 
Accepted forms: Credit or Debit card (Visa or Mastercard)
Mobile money (Airtel or MTN mobile money)

Cash
Pay cash after the end of a trip

Saving extra cash with Safeboda

Safeboda credit has always been the goldmine keen riders opt for. However, with the competition overhead, we can barely look back to the awesome 100% credit bonus times, but instead lash out for the 50% on all trips.

In the process to save extra cash on your next Boda trip with the Orange helmet plucked on your head. You’ll need to have a fully registered mobile money number to top up some initial savings on your account as SB Credit. In addition, when you land on a magic Wednesday like it was yesterday, you receive a 25% bonus back on your credit purchase to utilize on all trips and save more 25% per trip.

As compared to Taxify Boda and Uber Boda, the 50% discounts on all trips count for affordable trips around Kampala and once you pay with Credit its instead a 75% discount. Assuming your total trip cost is 4,000/=, the app will only charge 3,000/= when you pay with credit. Therefore, It’s that simple except that you suffer the levied 0.5% mobile money tax per transaction made to the app.