The recharge card printing business has really kicked off in Nigeria but only fee people know how to actually start it. It doesn’t matter where you reside, you can just start up.from your home and make it into a side job.You can print the card and start selling with your laptop or PC.
How many times have you bought recharge card from small kiosks or by the roadside? Those cards were printed easily by other people too and you can just start yours at the comfort of your home with little capital.
Let us take a look the things we will be discussing in this post:
- Requirements to start recharge card printing business.
- How to get started with the business
- How to promote your business and get more customers.
For the past 8 years, people have been printing recharge cards in Nigeria. The business is still going and going strong so there’s nothing to worry about.
You can also be using it for yourself by recharging on your phones. What do you need to start recharge card printing business? That will be discussed later in this post.
The profit from recharge card printing business is not that much but you don’t need too much capital either.
With just N9000, you are good to go. So what are the requirements, let us see them down here.
Requirements to start recharge card printing business in Nigeria
The requirements are at your disposal and you don’t need to climb mountains in search of them. Here they are:
- Computer: You can use either laptop or desktop. Anykind of computer that can install a software is good for you to start.
- Printer: The printer is what you wll useto print out the pins and other things that are necessarily added to the card.
- ePins: This i what you will subscribe to. You need the ePins of any network you want to print. You can get the ePins of airtel, 9mobile, MTN, Glo etc.
- A4 papers: Of course, where would you print your pins on.
- Recharge printing software: This is the software you will install on your desktop or laptop. This software will enable you to print the recharge card directly to your printer. An example is NetDivo ePin Manager.
You might also need a modem or stable data connection but it is not necessary since some softwares do not need internet to print recharge cards.
Sometimes, you might even gun a dealer in your environment and you can get just send ePins to your flashdrive or anything. It is that easy.
The reason for the internet might just be to download your ePins when it has been sent to your email. If your dealer is far away, he or she might need to send the ePins via email or any other possible means.
You can also do this at a cyber cafe but due to security reasons, we are suggesting a computer.
If you use a cyber cafe, your email is at stake and someone else can get access to your password and be downloading the ePins without your consent.
Once you have all the requirements above ready, you are good to go. You can download the NetDivo software for free but it will cost you about N10,000 to activate it.
When yo activate the software, you will be given two things free of charge;
- Contact details of where you can uy ePins of all networks
- Sample ePin file you can print out for training purposs.
Once you practice and you are perfect with the sample epin file, you can start ordering for the original ones and uploading them on the software.
After uploading, print and start selling to people. It is that easy.
How to promote your business?
Promoting the business is actually easy than you can imagine. Just get in contact with retailers around your area or contact people online and inform them about it.
That’s the simple way to get more customers for you recharge card printing business.
