What is the best payment gateway in Ghana?

Geert Jan
PayRequest
Published in
2 min readApr 1, 2020
Mobile payments are populair in Ghana

For long time ago Ghana had issues like low internet, and difficulties like unclear house addresses but from now on Ghana is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, many startups from Ghana are developing new applications to serve more then 10 million internet users.

When you start an online business in Ghana you need to know the most used payment methods and select the best payment gateway / payment processor for which fits the best for your application or startup.

The most used payment methods in Ghana are:

  • Mobile payments (MTN, VODAFONE, TIGO,GLO GHANA)
  • Creditcard (VISA,MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS)
  • Airtel
  • PayPal
  • Expresso

Mobile Money is popular in Ghana

Ghana has a large of mobile money transactions more then GH₵100 billion each year, that makes Ghana the fastest-growing mobile money market in Africa.

Best Payment Gateways in Ghana

1. PayPal

PayPal is an American company offering online payments worldwide including money transfers also they offering a online payment wallet, customers in Ghana can easy signup for a PayPal Business Account and use their PayPal Dashboard to create invoices and doing payment requests.

2. Flutterwave

Flutterwave provides technology, infrastructure and services to enable global merchants, payment service providers and Pan African banks. It helps businesses in Africa go global by smoothening the exchange of funds in more than 150 currencies.

Create your free account here: https://dashboard.flutterwave.com/signup?referrals=RV91075

3. Stripe

Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size — from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook — use the company’s software to accept online payments and run complex global operations. Today millions of companies across more than 100 countries use Stripe to…

Accept all payment methods in Ghana with PayRequest

Our mission at PayRequest is to support all payment methods to make worldwide business easy, we are already have integrations for PayPal and Stripe, get in touch if you are interested in accepting payments in Ghana.

Visit for more info: https://payrequest.io

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