The Capitec banking app is one of the easiest apps to use. The Capitec bank’s brainchild was designed to make banking simpler, less cumbersome, convenient, and more friendly. Since its establishment in 2001, the bank has risen to become the second-largest financial institution in South Africa. The Capitec banking app is just one out of numerous digital features they have come up with.
The Capitec Bank app serves both individuals and businesses. It contains a whole of user-friendly features that banking an amazing experience. To enjoy their banking app services, you need to some less-cumbersome steps to make that happen.
Yes, you need to. According to Capitec, you need to visit their bank nearest to you with your phone to activate their app successfully. At this point, it is imperative to distinguish between a registered user and an activated user.
A registered client is someone who has registered for Remote Banking in the branch (signed an agreement and chosen a temporary PIN) but has not yet activated the app (Opened the app, entered their details), while an activated user is someone who has registered for Remote Banking, has successfully gone through the activation steps and is making use of the app.
Activating your banking app with Capitec takes little or no effort. It can be done on your phone with ease and quickly too. Here are the processes you would follow to get your app and activate it as well.
Global One is simply a centralized transactional account that gives customers access to banking, insurance, saving, and credit. In essence, it offers you the convenience of having insurance, a transaction account, personalized credit, and 4 savings plans that are absolutely free. All these are merged into one account.
To open a Global One, you need the following Identification documents:
With Global One, you can pay your abilities using your Debit or Credit Card. You are offered easy cellphone, internet, and app banking; charged zero purchase fees internationally when you pay for products and services using your card, and low ATM withdrawal fees.
These particular procedures must be done at any Capitec bank nearest to you. Your phone and email must be verified for authentication. Ensure that you have a valid email address and a cellphone that works perfectly fine.
Once your phone has been verified, they will send you an SMS containing a link to download their banking app.
Once you successfully download the Capitec banking app from the google play store (if you are an Android user), the next thing you would do will be to install it on the same phone that they verified.
Once the installation is successful, all you need to do is to activate the app. A message will be displayed at the end of the activation process, confirming that the app has been activated. You can then start using the app.
You need, at least, a valid email and an internet-friendly phone that supports the app to activate the app successfully.
Capitec Bank says you don’t have to visit a branch to re-install their banking app on your existing phone or activate it on a new phone if your email address is verified on your Capitec banking profile.
As you already know, your verified email address is needed for authentication purposes. So, if it has already been verified, all you need to do is download the app from the app store and follow the prompts that will enable you to activate their banking app.
Here’s what to do if you have not updated or verified your email address
Capitec recently launched a new app that makes banking easier and more convenient to use. With it, you can pay people and accounts, make immediate payments, get account balances and email-stamped statements, and many other things. There’s no difference between the two except that the new one is a better version due to upgrades.
Some of the new functionality on the new app include: