This article explains how one can become a lycamobile agent in Uganda. Lycamobile provides low-cost, high-quality national and international calls, texts, and data. It connects families and friends around the world through its global network of 23 countries across five continents, therefore making it the world’s largest truly international network.
Lycamobile agents, just like airtel and mtn agents, register new customers and buy data bundles, airtime, etc for customers on behalf of lycamobile. Agents earn a commission from doing these services on behalf of lycamobile. How do you then become a lycamobile agent?
Related:
1. List of LycaMobile Uganda Outlets / Locations
2. How to register LycaMobile Uganda Simcard
3. Full list of Lycamobile USSD Codes
How to become a lycamobile agent?
Lycamobile and Lyca are trading names used under license by Tangerine LIMITED. The registration for new Lycamobile agents is done by the fully registered aggregator companies by Lycamobile. It registers distributing companies or individuals who thereafter register as many retail shops as they can.
To be in place to sell airtime or data for Lycamobile Uganda, one has to sign the necessary documents with the company’s third-party aggregator company called Mugehcom Technologies. The documents contain agreements that require the interested agents to be to submit their personal information, identification documents, and business details including attaching copies of proof of registration.
Agents are given all the necessary equipment(s) to their registered account holders/companies. Some of these are;
- VPN SIM Card (used for registering customers’ details)
- Stock/sim cards
- Mantra (Finger Print scanner)
- MIFIs (WIFI routers/modems)
- Login account & Password
- Agent’s Application (APP) apk
- Branding
- Airtime (E-Top Ups)
- Data (E-vouchers)
- Commission/Payments
- And all the required assistance in line with delivering their services as agents.
Costs and commission for LycaMobile agents
For now, VPN sim cards are free of charge, however, in case an Agent loses it or gets stolen or faulty, its replacement/sim swap goes up to UGX 50,000. So agents are advised to always be keen and careful with it to avoid such payments.
Other fees that will be incurred include (Source: TechJaja);
- A fingerprint scanner is a must have for all new agents who will buy it at a cost of UGX 250,000 for the registered agents only and UGX 300,000 for none agents.
- A lycamobile simcard is sold at UGX 10,000, and for replacement/simswap is at UGX 2,000. However, there is commission on each of the simcard sold according to the package/number of simcards stocked by the agents for sale
- As for now until mobile money is launched lycamobile says that, all agents will be given commission/payments on only simcards, which will be in form of extra simcards. Why? This is because they assume that if your commission UGX 100,000, and they instead give it to you in form of simcards (10), then Agents will sell each card at UGX 15,000-20,000 thus making them earn UGX 150,000-200,000 as their indirect commission.
- Agents are also given commission according to how many simcards they take for sale and in which package.