Paycell by Turkcell

GSM-based mobile communication in Turkey began when Turkcell commenced operations in February 1994. Since then, it has continuously increased the variety of its services based on mobile voice and data communication, as well as on its quality levels, and as a result, its number of subscribers.

As of 2015, Turkcell’s target has been to become an integrated communication and technology services player in the region, operating a converged mobile and fixed network platform and offering a wide range of innovative products and services. Turkcell believes that it is important to offer our consumer and corporate customers the full range of our mobile, fixed and broadband services to meet their expectations.

With their massive reach, telecommunications companies are the perfect candidates to take advantage of fintech & mobile payment solutions, and in a country where there’s an undeniably high number of unbanked people, Turkcell wanted to broaden its services in the financial area. The company wanted to offer their customer base a simple payment tool that takes seconds to sign up and be part of the digital financial ecosystem.

As a SaaS and PaaS powerhouse that’s experienced in financial services of almost every kind, we offered to customise our seamlessly working Mobile Financial Solutions Platform to Turkcell for their mobile payment service. For Paycell, we picked the most fitting features of our platform and added the new ones that Turkcell needed. In the end, we managed to create a mobile payment service for millions of users in a shorter project time than expected.