How to Pay with SafeBoda Cashless at your local restaurant

SafeBoda cashless has revolutionalized money exchange in Uganda. It was just last week that I was buying food at my local restaurant and I saw they have a Pay with SafeBoda cashless option.

With your SafeBoda cashless wallet, you can now buy food at your local restaurant. Isn’t that nice?. This new option, however, works for restaurants that are signed up with SafeBoda and have Safeboda Cashless wallets.

Before you confuse this with the recently introduced SafeBoda food, you must know that they are completely different. Here is how.

SafeBoda food is a food delivery service (just like Jumia Food) where SafeBoda partners with restaurants and local vendors to deliver food to their customers.

In contrast, this new Pay with SafeBoda Cashless option is a special service where restaurants sign up to have SafeBoda cashless wallets.
This paves way for customers with SafeBoda cashless to deposit money in case they want to buy a meal. (just like credit cards for banks, this time you use an app)

If you enter a restaurant and see a poster like this one below, be sure that you can Pay with SafeBoda cashless. I found this at a local restaurant in Kikoni.

With all that said, Here are the steps you can take to buy food with your SafeBoda Cashless wallet at your local restaurant. I tried it out and it worked for me, I hope it will for you too.

How to Pay With SafeBoda Cashless at your local restaurant

• Open the SafeBoda app
• Select the Share option highlighted below
• After that, click on the plus (+) button on the top right corner of the SafeBoda app
• You will thereafter be directed to Enter the Beneficiary’s number, as you can see below. This is the number of the restaurant to which you are to pay.
  After this, press next

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When you press next, you will be shown the initials of the beneficiary. Ensure to confirm with the restaurant if those are the names they use for their cashless wallet.

You will then put the amount of money you are to pay for the meal. The good news is that this is done at a FREE cost, no fee is incurred as you will see on the interface below. You can also add a NOTE, a small description of your purchase doesn’t hurt for easy transaction monitoring, does it?

After that, you will be prompted to insert your Cashless Pin. If it’s your first time, the first pin you input becomes the default pin.

Send the money by pressing the SEND button, and boom, you have successfully used the Pay with SafeBoda cashless option to grab yourself a meal.

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This is SafeBoda’s way of telling us that Cashless is the in thing. I actually have landed on this Pay With SafeBoda Cashless option at even bigger known restaurants. This is a sign that even high-end restaurants in Kampala and other districts are jumping onto the wagon, so it’s not only for the local restaurants. Here is the one I found at Karveli.

Conclusion

This new Pay With SafeBoda Cashless option indeed makes things easy for SafeBoda users who have adopted the use of their SafeBoda cashless wallets. It also makes money transactions easy. First, because it is a FREE transaction, and secondly because it saves one from having to carry around hard cash.

The availability of this option for both high-end restaurants and local restaurants strikes a balance for muntu wawansi and also the corporate class. Nice, huh?

To top it off, this is one of the many options with which you can choose to use your SafeBoda Cashless account. Others being, fuel purchase and SafeBoda traveling.

So, there is indeed value to having a SafeBoda Cashless account, not only as a SafeBoda user (for the rides) but also as a foodie and car owner.

With all these words said, the ball is in your hands. You can either top up your account and Pay with SafeBoda Cashless, or not.