How To Make Bulk Payments From Manual Data Input 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 Manual Data Input.

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 “Data From Manual Input


            Step 3: Enter Payment Details

            You need to enter or paste payment details in the input box in CSV file format as illustrated below;

            receiver,amount,reference,telco

            Important: Each payment detail must be on a new row

            You can input as many payment details as you wish provided it follows the exact format above, else the payment(s) will fail or you will experience errors.



Step 4: Save Payment Details

Select "SAVE MANUAL INPUT" when you are done with manual data input.



            Step 5: 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 6: 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: Your PIN is encrypted and stored securely on your device. SaylorPay Does Not collect or transmit your PIN to its server(s). You can learn more about this in our Privacy Policy.



            Step 7: Select a default SIM

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



Step 8: 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













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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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