New Orange Money app allows non-Orange users to use the Orange Money platform

Freetown | 9 September 2022 | Vertex Media

The new Orange Money App has been launched today at the Orange Sierra Leone Head Office in Freetown. The app comes with amazing features that make mobile money transactions easy and comfortable. The most innovative and astonishing aspect is the ability of non-Orange mobile customers/users to use the Orange Money platform through the app. This means that, people using other mobile operators sim cards, can now use the Orange Money platform without using an Orange SL sim card, through the app.

Before the introduction of the Orange Money App, only users or holders of Orange SL sim cards could be able to use the Orange Money platform, but with the new app, everyone can use the platform as the individual is using a valid mobile sim card of any mobile company in Sierra Leone.

The Orange Money App is now available on Play Store and Apple Store. New Orange Money users can download the app and open a new account to receive and send money, and also pay bills.

Orange sim card holders can also perform more functions and benefit from other Orange Money services. For instance, an Orange sim card holder can use the Orange Money lending service (Orange Lajor), which allows a user to borrow up Le 700 from the platform. An Orange sim card holder can also buy top up and data using Orange Money. These are the limitations or facilities a non-Orange sim card holder cannot benefit from, but they can perform any other services like sending and receiving money, and pay bills.

Speaking on the importance of the app, the Orange Money Manager David Mansaray says, “the app is to break the barriers between the existing Orange sim card holders and the non-Orange sim card holders to be able to use the Orange Money platform, without swapping or changing their sims or mobile operators.”

Mansaray further spoke on the importance of mobile money banking, which among others, are the comfortability of doing transactions, ease of sending and receiving money, without queuing at the bank. He also said that Orange Money now allows users to access their bank accounts to perform any transactions. Users can also receive money from abroad, through Western Union, Afro International, etc, to their Orange Money accounts.

Launching the official Orange Money App, the CEO of Orange Sierra Leone – Sheku Amadu Bah assures the public that Orange will continue to bring more innovations for their enormous customers, including the Orange Money users. “No matter which sim you’re using, you can use Orange Money with the Orange Money App”, he added.

The launch of the Orange Money App was graced by top celebrities and brand ambassadors of Orange, including Comedians Kindo Armani, Saio and Robinho, Actress Henrietta Mbawah, Singer Pitwizzy, and several others. Social media influencers and the media were also in attendance.