Phone number formats

Mobile Money payments are identified by phone number. Using the wrong format is one of the most common integration errors. This page documents exactly what Wajub accepts.

Required format: E.164

Wajub requires phone numbers in E.164 format: international dialing code + subscriber number, no spaces, no dashes, no parentheses.

+[country code][subscriber number]

Operator prefixes by country

Use these to identify which Mobile Money operator a number belongs to, and to form the correct channel value for direct API calls.

Cameroon (CM — +237)

Côte d'Ivoire (CI — +225)

Senegal (SN — +221)

Ghana (GH — +233)

Nigeria (NG — +234)

Kenya (KE — +254)

Uganda (UG — +256)

Rwanda (RW — +250)

Benin (BJ — +229)

Tanzania (TZ — +255)

Letting Wajub detect the channel

If you pass a phone number without a channel field, Wajub automatically detects the operator from the prefix and selects the best available provider via orchestration:

{
  "amount": 5000,
  "currency": "XAF",
  "customer": { "phone": "+237670000000" }
}

Wajub maps +23767… → cm.mtn and routes accordingly. You only need to pass channel explicitly when you want to force a specific operator.

Common errors