Make Your Services More Accessible with Amber™ USSD!
Amber™ is an Award Winning WASP - Used by Major Banks and other Financial Institutions, and utilised by millions of people every month across Africa!
Amber™ Product Overview
Engage with your customers and provide value‑added services on their mobile devices in real time.
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services connect your customers to your business through an easy and well‑understood interface. USSD is the most prevalent and popular interface bearer for Banks, Retailers and Mobile Network Operators.
Amber™ – USSD Service Provider
Amber™ USSD is deployed for several large Banks in South Africa, providing reliable and easy access to the banking platform by means of self-service, creating accessibility to your service. Our Amber™ platform has proven its worth by facilitating tens of millions of unique SIM subscribers/phone numbers on our platform in a single month, with tens of millions of transactions facilitated by one platform in that month.
Amber™ Services
Amber™ offers a wide range of services, including USSD (Default and Network Initiated), Banking-grade SMS, SIM Securitisation for Banking, Number Portability Lookup and others.
Free Bind USSD
Free binds are short codes that are free of charge for Customers – ideal for enabling the selling of airtime over USSD when Customers do not have airtime to dial USSD. PMT™ works with WASP departments in Networks to enable these services for our clients. For more information, please contact our WASP department.
Vulnerability Protection
PMT™ pioneered Session Resume in South Africa, where the intelligent Amber™ solution maps the last Menu position the Customer had on the interface when their session terminates. If the Customer dials the short code again, an option is provided to resume the previous session while retaining all data captured in the process. This saves time and money for Consumers on your platform, and increases convenience and ease of access.
Reversed Billing USSD
PMT™ has pioneered a billing methodology where a corporate pays for the USSD sessions that Customers use, instead of Customers paying for sessions with their own airtime.
NI USSD
PMT™ has pioneered Network Initiated USSD (NI USSD) for companies that require a way to initiate a USSD session through a business process that appears on the Customer’s phone – ideal for transaction verification.
Other WASP Services
SMS | SIM Securitisation | NI USSD.
PMT™ is a leading and award‑winning WASP and a founding member of WASPA, the regulating body for WASPs in South Africa. For more info on our other WASP services, please visit our WASP Services page.
MIS Reporting – Management Reporting on Your Amber™ Service
All instances of Amber™ include a comprehensive SLA for hosting, support, 24/7 Tier 2 and 3 Monitoring and Technical Support, and additional bespoke MIS reporting capabilities.
Amber™ Business Solutions
SIM Securitisation and Verification
What is the Risk?
If your Customers’ SIMs have been compromised by means of a SIM swap, any 3D Secure verification or OTP used to verify your Customer can be compromised. This can lead to significant losses due to fraud, as well as reputational and operational risk.
What to do?
Ensure that your Customer Interfaces are securitised against SIM Swaps through our SIM Securitisation service, which provides you with the information needed to intervene if a SIM Swap has taken place.
Enable Virtual Services with USSD
How to Reach my Customers
Awesome.Inc is a company offering a wide range of services to a multitude of Customers. Awesome.Inc has shops, branches, a website and roaming agents but still doesn’t reach the Consumer base they want. Market research shows there is demand for their services, but it is simply too much effort for customers to reach them. How does Awesome.Inc make its services easy to reach for every customer?
USSD is Everywhere
The vast majority of South Africans understand mobile banking via *120* services. If Awesome.Inc makes its services
available to Customers over USSD, they can reach a far broader audience.
- Enable a simple Menu structure with your services.
- Capture more Customer information on USSD and register new Customers for services. Increase your brand awareness.
- Enable VAS such as Airtime, Electricity, Ticket sales and Lotto, alongside your current services. Increase your turnover.
- Provide the information your Customers need, when they need it.
- Enable your Agents to do their business via USSD, increasing your footprint and revenue.
3D Secure Transactions
Verify Transactions
Transacting on E-commerce now often requires 3D Secure OTP verification. Mobile transacting and mobile banking secure transactions via an externally verifiable identification mechanism.
PMT™ offers the option to secure transactions via OTP SMS or NI USSD push notifications.
Stay Informed!
Amber™ Business Solutions
SIM Securitisation and Verification
What is the Risk?
If your Customers’ SIMs have been compromised by means of a SIM swap, any 3D Secure verification or OTP used to verify your Customer can be compromised. This can lead to significant losses due to fraud, as well as reputational and operational risk.
What to do?
Ensure that your Customer Interfaces are securitised against SIM Swaps through our SIM Securitisation service, which provides you with the information needed to intervene if a SIM Swap has taken place.
Enable Virtual Services with USSD
How to Reach my Customers
Awesome.Inc is a company offering a wide range of services to a multitude of Customers. Awesome.Inc has shops, branches, a website and roaming agents but still doesn’t reach the Consumer base they want. Market research shows there is demand for their services, but it is simply too much effort for customers to reach them. How does Awesome.Inc make its services easy to reach for every customer?
USSD is Everywhere
The vast majority of South Africans understand mobile banking via *120* services. If Awesome.Inc makes its services
available to Customers over USSD, they can reach a far broader audience.
- Enable a simple Menu structure with your services.
- Capture more Customer information on USSD and register new Customers for services. Increase your brand awareness.
- Enable VAS such as Airtime, Electricity, Ticket sales and Lotto, alongside your current services. Increase your turnover.
- Provide the information your Customers need, when they need it.
- Enable your Agents to do their business via USSD, increasing your footprint and revenue.
3D Secure Transactions
Verify Transactions
Transacting on E-commerce now often requires 3D Secure OTP verification. Mobile transacting and mobile banking secure transactions via an externally verifiable identification mechanism.
PMT™ offers the option to secure transactions via OTP SMS or NI USSD push notifications.