Nairabox

Nairabox is a digital lifestyle mobile app for consumers in Nigeria that combines a mobile wallet with entertainment and event services.

Key capabilities include:

• Cinema and live event ticketing: Buy digital tickets for cinemas and live events, use barcode-based entry, and transfer tickets to other users.
• Wallet payments and transfers: Purchase airtime, pay bills (such as utilities and internet), send money to other users, and make donations.
• In-store payments: Pay at participating retailers, with support for offline payments and merchant acceptance via scan-to-pay.
• Lifestyle add-ons: Discover events (concerts, festivals, sports, amusement parks), access a cinema subscription (up to four movie tickets monthly for a flat fee, for example N2000), and order food delivery from select restaurants (notably Lagos Island).

Available on Android and iOS.

It primarily serves individual consumers who want one app for entertainment purchases and everyday payments, and also supports merchants that accept in-store payments.

Notable in the Nigerian market for pioneering barcode e-ticketing in 2015 (which later became widely adopted), and for launching Nigeria’s first cinema subscription service in 2021. It also reports partnerships with 13 commercial banks, Visa, and Mastercard.