Verify that a user in Uganda holds the phone before linking a mobile-money wallet or approving a transaction.
MTN, Airtel and Lycamobile numbers are written 0772 123456 locally and +256772123456 internationally.
The Ugandan shilling has no cents, so prices on this page are in whole shillings, rounded up from the naira price.
Uganda has its own carrier route with fallbacks, changeable from the admin dashboard without a deploy.
curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
-H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_test_xxxx" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "phone": "0772123456", "country": "UG" }'
# international form: { "phone": "+256772123456" }| Service | Price (UGX) | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Phone verification (SMS OTP) | USh 18 | per code sent |
| SMS | USh 9.0 | per message |
Converted from our naira prices at 0.3342 naira per UGX and rounded up. Your balance is held in naira.
POST to /v1/phone/verify/start with +256772123456, or 0772123456 and country UG.
Yes, test keys do not send messages.
Yes where the payment provider is open for Uganda.