A remittance platform for Africans in the U.S.

Send money home to supported African countries through WhatsApp

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You already talk to your family on WhatsApp. Now you can pay them there too.

Sendar is a remittance platform for Africans in the United States who want to send money back home to Africa. The platform helps users send funds to supported African countries, where recipients receive local currency through available payout methods. Sendar supports U.S. dollar funding and may allow eligible users to pay with USDC as one funding method. Sendar is not a crypto trading platform; it is focused on cross-border money transfer for the African diaspora.

Every month, millions of African Diasporans send money home. They send it for school fees. For hospital bills. For a mother's rent. For a sister's business. For a father who worked his whole life and now needs help with his. They do not send it because someone told them to. They send it because that is what it means to make it somewhere else. You carry your family with you.

And every month, the same thing happens. They open a separate app. They type in an account number. They pay a fee that takes a cut before the money even moves. They wait. Then they text their family on WhatsApp to ask if it arrived. That last part is the tell. The conversation was always on WhatsApp. The money was the only thing that had to leave.

WhatsApp is not just a messaging app for African families. It is the family group chat at 11 PM. It is the voice note from mom on a Sunday morning. It is how a daughter in Houston stays present in a home in Lagos. It is where relationships live when distance separates the people in them.

Sendar puts the money where the relationship already is. Send money home without leaving the conversation. The guided experience continues through WhatsApp, with the current quote and available transfer details shown before you send.

Because the hard part is being far away. Sending money home should not be hard too.

Safe at every step

Built on Meta's WhatsApp infrastructure, end-to-end encrypted and trusted by over 2 billion people. Here's how we keep each dollar safe.

Send money without leaving WhatsApp. In the same chat you use every day.

Your family receives the money in minutes. In their bank account or via store pickup.

Review the exchange-rate quote, recipient amount, and applicable transaction cost before you send.

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