The Greatest Onboarding Ever Liveth
Is This The Greatest Onboarding for a Nigerian site?
Core was hovering above the Nigerian Tech ecosystem Twittersphere(yes it is a thing) when it found this link.
PayMe is a site that lets you create a profile so you can get paid. It is that simple. But that’s not what’s so amazing about the site. It’s the onboarding.
We’ve used a ton of Nigerian sites. Payments, e-commerce and other kinds of services. This was by far the easiest signup ever. Took less than a minute. We had to take a breather and discuss this site.
The first step is to enter your Bank account number and name then click the sign up button. The site seems to use a BVN API to display your full name immediately. You’re then required to choose a username for your link and then select a location. After this is your phone number, email address, referral code if you were referred, a small decision box for who pays charges and your password.
It’s important to ask ourselves. Why is this so easy? The logic is simple. If a person wishes to collect money(even for fraudulent reasons), would they allow the money go to someone else? They wouldn’t. It’s that simple. Would they enter a wrong phone number? They wouldn’t.
There’s no need for any OTP. Extra authentication. Extra messaging. “Please send us your unique code step”. That step will waste a lot of user’s time. Just let the user access the service.
PayMe then sends an email for the user to verify account creation. The email delivers instantly and not in 1 hour dear Linda Ikeji.
Core loves this. Core’s mind was blown.
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Until next time,
Core.
