How To Make Bulk Payments From File Import Using SaylorPay

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The Bulk Payment feature in SaylorPay allows you to automatically make as many payments as you wish to third parties in a very simple and convenient way. This feature saves you the stress of having to attend to each payment one at a time, and that too manually in a time-consuming manner.

With SaylorPay, it only takes a few simple steps to make hundreds of payments with our automated USSD feature.

SaylorPay offers 3 simple ways to make bulk payments based on the data source. These data sources are;

·         Manual Data Input

·         File Import and

·         Webhook

In this post, we will walk you through how to make bulk payments from File Import

To do this, follow these steps;



            Step 1: Launch SaylorPay on your mobile phone

            From the main menu, tap on “Bulk Payment

            This takes you to the Bulk Payment page.



Step 2: Select Data Source

Tap on the down facing arrow and select “Import Data From File



            Step 3: Select and Import File containing payment details

            Tap on “Import File” and choose the CSV or Excel File containing payment details.


Important Note

The CSV or Excel File containing payment details must be in the exact same format illustrated using the sample below;

                                     

Tip: When entering the phone number in excel, start with an apostrophe (eg. ‘0205678910, ‘0275678910), else Excel will consider your input as numeric and remove the zero at the start of the number.

Alternatively;

ü  Right click Column A's header

ü  Select “Format Cells...”

ü  Select “Text” and click “OK”

You can now enter the phone number as it is (eg. 0205678910)



SaylorPay will automatically extract the payment details from the CSV or Excel file you select provided it follows the exact format illustrated in the preceding step.



            Step 4: Set Payment Processing Interval

            The default and minimum Payment Processing Interval (in seconds) is 30. You can however change this to any interval of your choice.

            Tip: The Payment Processing Interval determines how long SaylorPay takes to start processing a new payment request in the queue after completing the last payment.



Step 5: Enter your Mobile Money PIN

Note that making mobile money payment(s) always requires your authorization (via your PIN) and to completely automate the process, you will need to provide your PIN for each payment in the queue to be automatically authorized at your request.

Note that SaylorPay does NOT Collect or Know your PIN, learn more about this in our Privacy Policy.

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            Step 6: Select a default SIM

            Choose and set a default SIM slot to make payments from.



Step 7: Save Settings

Once done with the steps above, select “Save Settings”.



            Click “Start” whenever to begin processing payments.



Click “Stop” to pause payment processing.


Additional features:

You can view the list of payment requests anytime



            You can edit or delete individual requests as and when needed



You can delete all data from the database by using the red master delete icon



Prefer watching rather than reading? Checkout our full step-by-step video tutorial below


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With years of experience in mobile payment technologies across Africa. The Admin has led the development of SaylorPay's USSD automation engine.

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