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The airtime telegram

Send airtime. Buy ZESA. Plan it ahead.

A simple utility for the recharges you make every month. Send airtime in seconds, buy a ZESA token, or schedule both to fire on the day you choose — so gogo never runs out at month-end, the lights never go out at 11pm, and the kids get their Friday airtime like clockwork.

Econet · NetOne · Telecel ZESA tokens Secure payments Card · EcoCash · OneMoney
·The motto

Organized people plan ahead.
— be that person.

Nº 01 · You

Less to carry.

The mental tax of remembering month-end is real — and it's invisible until it's gone. Schedule once, forget forever. That space in your head was costing you.

Nº 02 · Them

They feel looked after.

Airtime that lands on the day you promised — every month, without a reminder text from gogo — is the most concrete love language there is. Consistency beats grand gestures.

Nº 03 · The trick

30 seconds once.

Adding gogo and a schedule takes about as long as buying a token would. The difference is you do it once, in May, and it keeps happening through December. Compound interest, but for caring.

You don't need a planner, a calendar reminder, or a guilty conscience. You need a schedule that fires itself — and the small, satisfying feeling of being the person who already sorted it.

Plan your first drop
02Quick send

Right now, for anyone.

No signup needed for a one-off. Drop in a phone or meter number, pay with EcoCash, OneMoney, or card, and the recharge goes through in seconds. Want it tomorrow instead? Toggle "Later" and pick a time.

03MyFamilyTime

Send airtime to the people you love, on a schedule.

Add gogo, sekuru (grandfather), mom, dad, or the kids. Pick what to send, pick when. We do the rest — month after month — so you stop forgetting and they stop asking.

  • 01 Gogo's month-end airtime fires on the last working day, every month, without you remembering.
  • 02 ZESA auto-tokens on the 1st & 15th, so the meter is never empty when it matters.
  • 03 Friday airtime for the kids — $2 every Friday after school, so they can call you from the school gate. No more "Mum, my airtime…".
  • 04 You see your monthly spend at a glance. Every scheduled drop adds to one running total — habits become numbers.
  • 05 Sending from abroad? Top up with Visa or Mastercard. No remittance fees for a $5 recharge.
Set up your first drop
👵
Last Friday of month
Gogo Joyce · $5 airtime
Active
1st & 15th, every month
Home meter · $10 ZESA
Active
💝
1st of each month
Mom · $20 airtime
Active
👴
Every Friday
Sekuru · $3 airtime
Active
🎒
Friday after school · weekly
Kids · $2 airtime
Active
03bWhy MyFamilyTime exists

Four problems we set out to solve.

Because everyone we know has lived through them.

Nº 01

Gogo's month-end airtime

It's the 30th. Salary just hit. You meant to send gogo airtime so she could call — but you forgot. Again. Set it once, happens forever.

Recurring dropsmonthly · weekly · biweekly
Nº 02

Lights out at 11pm

Token finished, no electricity, kids can't study. Schedule auto-tokens twice a month — the meter's never empty when it matters.

ZESA auto-tokens1st & 15th
Nº 03

Friday airtime for the kids

$2 every Friday after school so they can call you on the way home. Small, regular, and you stop reaching for your phone to send it manually.

Weekly dropsairtime allowance
Nº 04

Sending from abroad

You're in Joburg, London, Toronto. You don't want to pay a $5 Western Union fee to send $5 of airtime. Card top-up, drops in seconds.

Visa & Mastercardsecure checkout
04How it works

Three steps. Set it once. Forget it forever.

01

Pick a recipient

A phone number for airtime, a meter for ZESA. Add a name and an emoji so you remember who's who. 10 seconds.

02

Pick a day

"Around payday", "1st & 15th", a specific date, or every Friday. Weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Easy to skip a month.

03

Top up · we send

Fund your wallet once with card, EcoCash, or OneMoney. We send the recharge on the day, with your message attached.

04bFor the diaspora

Sending from outside Zim?

You don't need EcoCash. Top up your wallet with a Visa or Mastercard, and we route the airtime or ZESA token directly to anyone in Zimbabwe. No wire transfers, no remittance fees, no "the agent's closed today."

  • One-tap card top-up
  • Drops arrive in seconds, not days
  • SMS receipt for every drop · share with siblings
  • Pause or skip a month from anywhere
Sending to Zimbabwe from
🇿🇦
Johannesburg
South Africa
↦ Gogo
🇬🇧
London
United Kingdom
↦ Mom
🇨🇦
Toronto
Canada
↦ ZESA home
🇦🇺
Sydney
Australia
↦ Sekuru
🇺🇸
Atlanta
USA
↦ Sister
05Today's outgoing drops

Know what you spend, before you spend it.

Every row here is one person, one product, one cadence — and the total at the bottom is what you're committed to this month. No surprises, no end-of-month guessing. Habits become numbers; numbers become a budget.

Open any row to change the day, skip a month, or send right now. We keep a receipt for everything that fired.

👵
Gogo Joyce
Last Friday · monthly
$5
Home — ZESA
1st & 15th · biweekly
$10
💝
Mom · $20 airtime
1st · monthly
$20
👴
Sekuru
Every Friday · weekly
$3

Committed this month
$38
06For teams

Same engine. Bigger jobs.

Whether you're sending airtime to gogo or to 500 staff, the engine is the same. The workforce kit adds cost centers, per-recipient caps, GL-mapped CSV exports, recurring stipends, and a signed-webhook API on top.

AHR · Finance · workforce

Stop chasing receipts. Give finance the receipt.

Send airtime to staff and field agents at any scale — payroll IDs and cost centers, per-recipient caps enforced at dispatch, monthly stipends that fire themselves, branded SMS, and GL-mapped exports your accountant will actually accept.

  • Recipient register with payroll IDs and cost centers — no more pasting numbers each month.
  • Per-recipient monthly caps blocked at the dispatcher, not on the call with audit.
  • Recurring stipends — monthly comms allowance, weekly field-agent drops, birthday airtime.
  • Spend by cost center — exportable CSV ready to drop into your accounting system.
Try it on your team
Cost center · Sales · May 2026
Monthly budget $ 1,200.00
Spent this month $ 847.50 71%
Tendai M. (PR0042) $ 50 / $ 50 CAP REACHED
Rumbi S. (PR0017) $ 32 / $ 50
Blessing T. (PR0033) $ 47 / $ 50
A.2More in the workforce kit

Bulk dispatch

Upload a CSV and send to hundreds at once — networks auto-routed from each prefix, failed sends auto-refunded to your wallet.

Recurring stipends

Monthly comms allowance, weekly field-agent drops, birthday airtime — set once and it fires itself, every cycle.

Branded SMS

Recipients see your organisation's name on the confirmation — not an anonymous shortcode.

Approvals & caps

Per-recipient monthly caps enforced at the dispatcher, with an audit trail your finance team can sign off.

07FAQ

Common questions.

Do I need to sign up to send airtime?

No. For a one-off recharge, just use the quick-send box above — pay with EcoCash, OneMoney, or card, and it goes through. Signing up unlocks scheduling, your wallet, and MyFamilyTime.

Which networks do you support?

Airtime for Econet, NetOne, and Telecel. ZESA tokens (USD or ZWG). We auto-route to the right network from the phone prefix. Data bundles will land later — not yet supported.

How does scheduling work?

Pick a recipient (a phone or a ZESA meter), pick a product, pick when ("around payday", a specific day, every Friday, etc.), and top up your wallet. We fire the recharge on the day. If your wallet's empty we skip and email you — we never surprise you with a debt.

What if I'm sending from outside Zimbabwe?

Top up your wallet with Visa or Mastercard from anywhere. Drops arrive in seconds, not days. No remittance fees just to send $5 of airtime.

Is there a fee for personal use?

No platform fee. You pay the recharge amount plus the standard payment-processing fee on top-ups. Advanced features (cost centers, GL exports, API access) are subscription-based.

What if a recharge fails?

Your wallet is refunded automatically. Orders that come back in "unknown" state are resolved by our reconciler, which runs every 2 minutes — no manual chasing required.

08Get started

One almanac for every recharge.

Pay-as-you-go for one-offs. Sign in to plan ahead, set up MyFamilyTime, or unlock the team kit.

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