A while ago when the term API was first used in fintech and innovation’s blogs, it was was a bit confusing to understand. Those initials sound as if people were talking about a type of brew beer, or it looked like maybe someone made a mistake when typing APP.
However, time passed by and this term has become more and more common. Not only among tech experts and developers but also between different users and sectors such as digital marketing.
But what are these initials all about? We give you a 5-minutes read about it and how nowadays API’s have disrupted the way to make business.
Simple explanation of what is an API
Since not everyone knows the acronym yet, it is worth to say that API stands for Application Programming Interface. Among many of its benefits, it makes possible the communication between services and platforms.
Take for example an Uber service, a delivery or a GPS app that gets the user to a destination. Although it seems simple, lots of protocols come together to find the selected place in a map, ask for the service, make the follow-up and even rate the whole process.
The result is immediate, but that can only be possible with the collaboration among different software and platforms. The gateway between them it’s open by the API.
That being said, it makes more sense now that API’s are being integrated within businesses to increase their benefits to their clients.
Mobile Top-up API
Now, Reloadly is also an API. To be more specific we are a mobile top-up API that makes it possible to recharge airtime anytime, anyplace. Our software allows other businesses to offer top-up through desktop platforms, apps, and websites, among other possibilities.
Today it is possible to send load worldwide with the communication between services that our API provides. Maybe you will be interested to read about how many mobile top-ups are migrants sending home every year?
How to get the most out of a top-up API?
The top-up API industry offers and wide range of opportunities for businesses. Mobile credit benefits different kinds of users and not just local, but international. It is especially useful for emerging markets and immigrants looking for ways to communicate easily with their related ones. These are also some potential sectors that could benefit from using our platform:
- Traveling. This is one of the best ways to find a top-up API useful. Currency exchange, traveling or accommodation apps can offer airtime for users that arrive at foreign countries and require facilities to communicate easily and instantly, without having to wait for bank transactions and approvals.
- Loyalty bonus. The magic of a top-up API is that it could be integrated with many systems and platforms, such as mobile wallets, or even at a simple retailer store. A retailer could offer credit as a loyalty bonus for its customers, whereas a gaming company can exchange mobile credit as a reward for gamers.
- Web top-up services. Reseller solutions or portals for mobile top-up. These are often integrated with apps and offer revenues for sending airtime, mainly for emerging countries. Retailers and travel services can take advantage of any possible opportunity to make mobile credit available for users.
Simple top-up mobile solution
Old business models and services required contracts and complex steps to reach the same result. Nowadays, developers can take our open code and integrate it with apps, websites and other platforms within minutes. Fast and easy!
Wanna know more? Create your developer account with Reloadly and get your free API key today to start building.
