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Early access · Uganda & East Africa

Pay Online Without the Fear.

Prepaylynk keeps the buyer’s money safe on MTN Mobile Money or Airtel Money until the order is delivered and confirmed. The seller ships knowing the money is real. The buyer pays knowing it’s protected if anything goes wrong.

  • Your money is kept safe until delivery
  • You confirm before it’s released
  • Works with MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money

Order tracking · Order PPL-2471

Sunflower Fabrics → Aisha N.

Money safely held

Amount protected

UGX 240,000

  1. Buyer sent the money

    Today · 2:14 PM

  2. Kept safe, not yet paid out

    Seller can see the payment has arrived

    Now
  3. Out for delivery

    Waiting for buyer to confirm

  4. Seller gets paid

    Happens automatically once delivery is confirmed

Nobody can be cheated. The seller gets paid the moment delivery is confirmed, not before, not after.

The reality on the ground

Cash on Delivery works.
Until it doesn’t.

Cash on Delivery became the workaround for one missing thing: nobody wants to go first. So the risk keeps moving from person to person, and someone always ends up carrying it.

B
Buyer
“I’m not sending money before I see what I’m buying.”

So they wait to pay on delivery, or they don’t buy at all.

S
Seller
“I already paid for delivery out of my own pocket.”

That money is gone the moment an order gets rejected at the door.

C
Courier/Rider
“The customer isn’t picking up the phone anymore.”

A wasted trip, and nobody covers the fare.

BuyerSellerDelivery
Buyer, seller, rider: three people, no shared guarantee. Trust runs out before the deal is done.
The insight

It’s not a payment problem.
It’s a trust problem.

Everything you need is already here. What’s missing is the one thing that lets two people who’ve never met do business without fear. Trust isn’t an extra feature: it’s the missing infrastructure underneath every online sale.

People are already discovering products on TikTok.

People are already paying with MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money.

People are already buying and selling online, every single day.

The missing layer

Trust between people who’ve never met.

How Prepaylynk works

Three steps. No blind trust required.

No contracts to read. No arguing over refunds. Just a simple order where the money only moves when it’s supposed to.

  1. 01

    Buyer sends the money

    The buyer pays into Prepaylynk. The money has left their hands, but it’s not the seller’s yet, it’s kept safe in between.

    Money secured
  2. 02

    Seller delivers

    The seller can see the money has already arrived, so they ship the goods or start the job with confidence.

    In progress
  3. 03

    Money is released

    Once the buyer confirms delivery, Prepaylynk pays the seller automatically. Both sides walk away happy.

    Complete
Where it fits

Built for how Ugandans actually buy and sell.

The same simple guarantee, shaped to real transactions. Pick the one that sounds like you.

UGX 180,000 · dress

The order from your last TikTok Live

A buyer in Kampala orders during your live sale, or messages you straight on WhatsApp Business, and sends the money into Prepaylynk before you ship, no waiting on a boda rider to confirm cash was collected. You post it knowing the money has already arrived. When it’s delivered, they confirm, and you get paid: no “I’ll pay on delivery,” no ghosting, no chasing “sent already” screenshots.

Buyer sends moneyYou shipBuyer confirms → you’re paid
What changes

Both sides go first, without going it alone.

For buyers

  • See it before your money is released

    Your payment sits safely with Prepaylynk until you confirm the goods or service are exactly what you agreed on.

  • Protected from scams

    If the deal falls through, you get your money back. Nobody disappears with your cash.

  • Always know where your money stands

    Sent, held, delivered, released: every step, visible, every time.

For sellers

  • Know the money is real before you ship

    The payment has already arrived with Prepaylynk before you spend a single shilling on delivery.

  • Fewer wasted deliveries

    No more trips for orders that get rejected at the door or never answer the phone.

  • Fast, predictable payouts

    Money is released automatically once delivery is confirmed. No chasing, no excuses.

Why now

Why this matters more than ever.

A few things are happening at once, and one of them is brand new. Each makes the missing piece, trust, more valuable than it has ever been.

The biggest risk right now

Scams are getting harder to spot.

Fake Instagram and WhatsApp Business accounts, sellers who vanish after you send money, fake delivery updates: online fraud is growing right alongside online shopping. The only real protection is holding the money until the goods actually arrive.

AI-generated ads and fake storefronts are making it even harder to tell a real seller from a fake one.

Shops moved into the feed

People discover and buy inside TikTok, Instagram, and WhatsApp now. Discovery caught up fast, checkout and trust didn’t.

MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money are already everywhere

Sending money by MTN Mobile Money or Airtel Money is instant. The rails already exist: what’s missing is a way to send it without carrying all the risk yourself.

Trade is crossing borders

More business is happening between Uganda and neighboring countries. Distance makes trust harder, which is exactly when a safety net like this matters most.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Still wondering about something? Reach us at prepaylynk@gmail.com.