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Zap by Paystack promised to be the anti-super-app, then it became one
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Technext
It is focused on one thing – bank transfers, fast.”
The very services Akinlade implicitly rejected at launch (airtime, data, bill payments) are now central to the product roadmap.
For Zap, airtime and bill payments represent low-hanging fruit – high-frequency, low-margin transactions that drive daily app opens and user retention.
The Bill Pay pivot, evidenced by the “That’s not all we do” marketing campaign, represents a pragmatic if somewhat predictable concession to market reality.
If Paystack can maintain the speed and design elegance that distinguished Zap while integrating bill pay seamlessly, the pivot may prove shrewd.