"Halan" the first Egyptian application for ride-hailing and delivery launched new mass services that enable customers to pay bills and also donations to charitable organizations electronically from mobile phones through Fawry services available on the application, in a move aimed at expanding financial inclusion and digital transformation and reaching a larger base of public Egyptians with the easiest and fastest ways of payment.
The new partnership of "Halan" with "Fawry" allows e-payment of electricity, water and gas bills with the ability to recharge mobile balance and donate to more than 100 charities all over Egypt through Fawry multiple services available on the app.
Mahmoud El Deeb, General Manager of Halan PAY, said: "After the success of Halan app in the transportation space and our tricycle service for delivering goods and personal items. We expanded in Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia to leverage technology to facilitate easier transportation digital functions to our users.
From ride-hailing to Halan E-Commerce, our main goal is to make our users’ lives easier by the availability of public services to them such as paying their different bills through Halan app. Besides, the new cooperation with "Fawry" will give "Halan" a tangible role in the process of reaching e-donations to various charitable institutions, which need the public support to complete its charitable role and reach those deserving of the most needy families, especially during the current circumstances."
El Deeb expressed his happiness with the new partnership with "Fawry" for its pioneer experience in electronic payment as it plays an important role in reinforcing the country’s financial inclusion plans, as well as launching Fawry services on Halan app is a good opportunity and a fruitful addition to the application for diversity in services it provides to users to gain their trust.
Ahmed Nader "Commercial Director of Fawry", commented on the collaboration: "Launching Fawry services on Halan app is a new step to support various entities following the digital transformation system and further enhance their role in line with the Egyptian state’s orientations in financial inclusion plans, as we aim through the new partnership to make Online payment services available to different audiences and expand services that meet the largest possible number of customer needs."
Nader added that the current Corona virus (COVID-19) crisis has challenged all businesses to digitally transform during the pandemic, and keeping pace with the new waves of technology, interacting with the most widespread Apps, and developing innovative ideas, knowing that investing in digital transformation technologies will have the merit of creating a successful service model for the audience, who are searching for the easiest, simplest, yet most secure ways of payment.
Halan is a startup company in the transportation space, based in Cairo. The first Egyptian application that enables you to order a motorcycle and tuk-tuk, as well as deliveries through motorcycles and tricycles.
Halan founders believe that delivery services will remain the fastest growing in the Middle East. Forbes also ranked "Halan" as one of the most important 19 startups depending on technology in 2019, as its services are available in many governorates of Egypt in addition to its expansion in Sudan, and Ethiopia. The company also aims to launch in North and East Africa and the Arab Gulf region; these markets still present potential opportunities for rapid growth for startups of this type.
As for Fawry, the leading platform for digital transformation and e-payments, it serves more than 25 million customers per month, with more than 2.75 million transactions per day for more than 500 services including telecom bills, tickets and tourism, online payments, various utilities, insurance, School and university fees, donations, financial payments and banks, subscriptions and ads, and renewal of car license. All through one big network of 33 banks and more than 141,000 outlets across Egypt, 2500+ branches for post offices. And more than 15 mobile phone wallets for banks and mobile companies in addition to "FawryPlus" outlets, as well as "myFawry" online gateway and application.
