Government payment gateways compared across East Africa

Gateways side by side

The DRC and Somalia are not in the table. No official page on a national payment gateway for them was read for this page.

Tanzania: GePG

The Public Finance Act, as amended by the Finance Act 2017, requires public money to be collected electronically through GePG. Treasury Circular No. 3 of 4 September 2017 told permanent secretaries to route all government revenue through it ¹.

GePG lists banks such as CRDB, NMB, TPB and PBZ, and mobile money such as M-Pesa, Tigopesa and Airtel Money. It takes Visa and Mastercard online and TISS or SWIFT transfers ⁷. Bills are of three types. Partial bills accept instalments, exact bills accept only the billed amount and full bills accept the billed amount or more ⁷.

A payment provider joins by writing to the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Planning. It goes through procurement and signs a standard contract before live integration ⁷.

Audit findings on GePG

The Controller and Auditor General report on information systems for 2024/25, dated 30 March 2026, found that periodic reviews of user access rights were not done for MUSE, GAMIS, CBMS and GePG in the period reviewed ⁶.

The report found that the Kilimanjaro Airports Development Company billing system is not integrated with GePG and needs manual work to generate control numbers ⁶. It found that a National Food Reserve Agency system is not integrated with GePG for billing, which it said creates a risk of revenue leakage ⁶. A management response was not in the part of the report read for this page ⁶.

Kenya and Rwanda

The World Bank wrote in February 2017 that eCitizen had grown from 8 to more than 100 services. It reported more than 4 million registered users, more than 300,000 transactions a month and more than 400 million Kenyan shillings in monthly receipts ³. KenTrade says its single window connects to banks and mobile payments through KRA iTax and eCitizen ⁸.

The same World Bank article said Irembo offered more than 40 online services. It said Irembo typically collects around US$1 per transaction and has a technology agreement with Crimson Logic of Singapore ³. These figures date from 2017 ³.

Uganda, South Sudan and Burundi

URA tells users to register a payment on its portal, note the payment registration number on the slip and pay at a bank, by mobile money or through other URA payment modes ².

Radio Yei reported that the directive in South Sudan follows Presidential Order No. 35 of 2025. Taxpayers are told to keep the electronic receipt as proof of payment ⁴.

OBR lists online filing and payment and an electronic invoicing system. A caption dated 8 April 2026 reports low use of electronic invoicing machines, with the Minister of Finance calling for sanctions ⁵.