Payment methods

Credit card payment is the fastest method of making payments to us without going through many bank procedures. Once you make the payment, we immediately get an approval. This method assists us to confirm your reservations promptly. There is an additional bank charge of 3.5% as mentioned below. There are no other hidden costs.

Your credit card payment is completely secured. We use a link that is sent directly by the bank. The website is HTTPS, which stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure. Also, we do not take credit card numbers from you, it needs to be filled up by you using the bank website directly.

The 3.5% charge is a bank charge. These charges are not applied by Wipa safaris but by the bank. In Tanzania, the banks charge supplement of 3.5% for paying by credit card.

Once you insert the details in the secured website, you will automatically see an approval on the website and online receipt which you need to print and save it for your records. Please send us the payment receipt on email so that we can confirm your booking immediately.

Once we receive your credit card approval, we shall send you a credit card authorization form that you need to fill for bank verification purposes only. In order to avoid fraud, the banks verify the forms that you have filled to confirm that you are the owner of the credit card. You would also require scanning your passport copy and sending it for bank verification.

The reason is so that the banks can verify that you are the true owner of the credit card and thus avoid frauds.

If your transaction fails, then you need to contact your bank to authorize the payments to Tanzania. Most of the time, banks put a caveat on transactions that they feel are fraudulent especially in countries like Tanzania. All you need to do is inform your bank regarding your transaction and you need to try again.