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What can I build with the Reloadly top up API?
Airtime API · Use cases
What can I build with the Reloadly top-up API?
An overview of what the Airtime API does and the industries that use mobile recharge as an added-value service.
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Airtime API
With the Reloadly mobile top-up API, you get instant access to over 600 mobile operator networks to send a prepaid mobile recharge. By adding mobile recharge to your app or site, your customers can recharge their own prepaid phones or send airtime to family and friends living abroad — all through a single integration.
Mobile recharge works especially well as a complementary, value-added service layered on top of an existing product. Here are the industries where it fits naturally.
How the Airtime API works
The Airtime API lets your application send a prepaid mobile top-up to virtually any phone number in the world. Behind a single integration, Reloadly handles the operator detection, pricing, and delivery, so you don't need a direct relationship with each carrier.
600+
Mobile operator networks supported worldwide
Instant
Top-ups delivered to the recipient's phone in real time
1 API
A single integration covers operators across every supported country
12 industries that use mobile recharge
Mobile recharge is a perfect complementary, added-value service for these industries:
💳 Fintech
Add airtime top-ups as a feature inside banking or wallet apps, giving users another reason to keep funds in-app.
🌍 Remittance
Let senders top up a family member's phone abroad alongside or instead of a cash transfer.
✈️ Travelers
Help travelers top up a local SIM the moment they land, without hunting for a kiosk.
🏨 Hospitality
Hotels and booking platforms can offer airtime as a guest perk or upsell during checkout.
🎁 Loyalty
Use mobile recharge as a reward option inside points and loyalty programs.
📡 Telecom resellers / carriers
Resellers and MVNOs can extend their own top-up offering to operators they don't have a direct deal with.
📶 WiFi apps
Public WiFi and connectivity apps can bundle airtime as part of a paid or rewarded access plan.
🌐 Diaspora / expat apps, blogs & sites
Communities serving expats can let members top up phones back home directly from the platform they already use.
🏛️ Government agencies
Agencies can distribute mobile credit as part of social programs or emergency assistance.
🛒 Supermarkets / gas stations
Add top-ups at checkout, in-app, or at the till as a convenient extra service for shoppers.
📲 Mobile recharge distributors / resellers
Build a dedicated top-up business on top of Reloadly's operator network instead of negotiating with carriers one by one.
🏬 Retail shops
Brick-and-mortar and online retailers can sell mobile recharge as an additional product line.
⚡ Getting started
Every integration follows the same basic pattern, regardless of which use case you're building for:
- Authenticate against the Airtime API using your client credentials.
- Look up operators for a given country, or auto-detect the operator from the recipient's phone number.
- Send the top-up with the recipient's number, operator, and amount.
- Confirm delivery using the transaction response or webhook.
For the full endpoint reference, authentication flow, and code samples, see the Airtime API documentation.
Have a use case that's not listed here?
Our team can help you figure out if the Airtime API is the right fit.