The Monnify Glossary
- Contract: A personalized agreement that defines how your business operates on our platform such as your preferred payment methods, collection channels, what fees apply etc.
- BVN (Bank Verification Number): An 11-digit unique identity number issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). We use your BVN solely to verify your identity (KYC) so you can start transacting. We cannot access your funds or your transaction history using just your BVN.
- Cap: The maximum fee you pay for a single transaction, regardless of the transaction amount. Our fee is 1.5%, capped at ₦2,000 per transaction.
Example: If a customer pays you ₦1,000,000, the 1.5% calculation would be ₦15,000. However, due to the Cap, we stop counting at ₦2,000. Now, you save ₦13,000.
- Chargeback: A dispute raised by a cardholder claiming a transaction was fraudulent or unauthorized.
- IP Whitelisting: With IP Whitelisting, you create a secure perimeter around your account by restricting payout requests to a specific list of trusted IP addresses. Monnify will only honor requests from these verified sources. This way, your money is protected in case of a compromise.
- KYC (Know Your Customer) / KYB (Know Your Business): The mandatory process of verifying your identity as a merchant or the customer.
- Mandate: A formal permission that a customer gives so the merchant can debit the customer’s bank account directly at set intervals without asking them.
- Merchant: That’s you. In the Monnify ecosystem, a "Merchant" is any individual, business, or organization that uses our platform to accept payments.
- Paycode: Short for payment code. It is a 10-digit number generated by merchants for their customers to take to a Moniepoint Agent to withdraw cash.
- Payin (Payment Collection): Any money coming into your Monnify business account.
- Payout: Also called disbursement or transfer. These terms are often used interchangeably to mean money moving out of your Monnify wallet.
- Settlement: The movement of funds from your Monnify Wallet to your corporate bank account after deducting Monnify's processing fee.
- Settlement Cycle: The timeline for when your money moves from your Monnify wallet to your corporate bank account.
- Split Payment (Sub-accounts): With this feature, you get to automatically divide a single incoming payment between 2 or more different destinations.
- Tokenization: Card tokenization allows a merchant to debit a customer’s card without requiring any input from the customer for subsequent transactions.
- Virtual Account: A dedicated account number generated for your business or your specific customers.
- Wallet: Your digital purse that holds your balance on the Monnify dashboard. When you get paid, the money lands in your Monnify wallet and stays there until you withdraw it (settlement) to your corporate bank account or use it to pay vendors.
- Webhooks: A mechanism Monnify uses to send real-time transaction details to merchants so they don’t have to request it every time.
Last Updated on : 2/27/2026