Recurring billing infrastructure for Kenya

Your subscriptions should renew without manual follow-up.

Most Kenyan businesses still chase renewals over M-Pesa, spreadsheets, and one-off payment links. TAPA fixes that with hosted checkout for the first payment, bank Direct Debit for what follows, and billing automation your finance team can reconcile in KES.

KES settlement · local bank rails · onboarding support included

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Acme Platform

Pro plan · monthly

KES 24,500.00

Recurring · monthly
Pro plan
22,000.00
Add-on seats
2,500.00
Total due
KES 24,500.00
customer@acme.co.ke
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Payment method

M-PesaPay on your phone · clears in seconds
Direct DebitSet up once for every cycle
Pay KES 24,500.00

Secured by TAPA

The problems TAPA is built to remove from recurring billing

  • Manual renewal reminders
  • Unreconciled STK pushes
  • Failed standing orders
  • Surprise bank debits
  • Spreadsheet billing
  • Churn from payment friction

Global card stacks were not built for Kenyan recurring billing

Subscription businesses here need KES-native amounts, bank-grade debit authority, and honest verification timelines. TAPA is designed around those constraints — not imported assumptions.

M-Pesa
first payment & recovery when bank debit fails
Local banks
Direct Debit through Kenyan partner banks
KES-native
minor-unit amounts, exports & ledger references
T+4 days
typical bank mandate verification — status shown live

Developers

Your billing system should not own bank integration complexity.

Engineering teams lose weeks wiring mandate creation, status polling, and debit submission. TAPA exposes a merchant API at /api/v1/dd so your product team ships billing features, not payment plumbing.

View developer docs
create-mandate.sh
POST /api/v1/dd/mandates
X-TZD-API-Key: tzdk_...

{
  "customerReference": "sub-001",
  "payerName": "Jane Wanjiku",
  "amountLimitMinor": 3000000,
  "currency": "KES",
  "paymentType": "recurring"
}

Recurring revenue should not depend on manual follow-up

Share your billing model — monthly, annual, or usage-based — and we will scope a TAPA pilot around your collection workflow.

See pricing

Volume-based pilot plans for recurring billing — priced in KES, no FX surprises.

Pricing details

Start building

Merchant API reference, Postman UAT collection, and mandate status polling — ship your first debit in days.

Integration options