After successfully registering for M-Pesa at an M-Pesa agent, you will receive an SMS containing a 4-digit M-Pesa activation code.
This is your start PIN. You’ll need to activate your account.
How to activate M-Pesa
To activate M-Pesa, follow these steps:
To activate M-PESA, follow these steps:
- Go to your Safaricom menu via the SIM Toolkit
- Select M-PESA
- Select Activate or Wezesha
- Enter your Start Key (4-digit number sent to you via SMS.)
- Create a new 4-digit M-Pesa PIN
- Confirm your new PIN by entering it.
- Enter your ID number used during registration
Upon successful activation, you will receive a confirmation message from M-Pesa with your account balance
Activating M-Pesa via USSD Code Ethiopia (no start PIN)
If you are an Ethiopian M-Pesa user, you can activate your account via *733# code as follows:
- On your phone dial *733#
- Select 1 to accept the terms and conditions
- Enter your year of birth
- Confirm that the details that pop up on the screen are correct
- Create a new PIN
- Confirm your new PIN by re-entering it.
Activation is now complete and you should be able to use your new PIN to access M-Pesa services via the app, sim toolkit, USSD, etc.