Sending money to another wallet
2 min readLast updated 16 September 2026 Read as plain text
By phone number, by username, or by a link, and what each one is actually good for.
A transfer between two Ultraner wallets is internal: it does not leave for a mobile money network and come back, so it is immediate and costs nothing. What varies is how you tell us who to send it to.
By phone number
The default, because it is the identifier everyone already knows. The number is the wallet address, the same way it is on mobile money.
Check it before you send. A transfer completes without the recipient doing anything, which is what makes it convenient and also what makes a mistyped digit permanent.
By username
A claimed username gives you a short address that is easy to say out loud and hard to mistype: ultraner.com/pay/@yourname. Useful for anyone who publishes where to pay them, which is most small businesses and every freelancer.
By link
A payment link asks the other person for a specific amount rather than sending them one. It is the right tool when you are owed money instead of paying it, and it works whether or not they have an Ultraner account.
A transfer cannot be recalled
Once it lands, it is theirs. There is no reversal and no hold: the money is in somebody else’s account, and taking it back out without their say-so is not something a payment system is allowed to do.
If you send to the wrong number, the only route is asking that person to return it. Most people do. Building your habits around that being reliable is unwise.
What it costs
Wallet to wallet, nothing. Both sides are inside Ultraner, so no network is carrying the money and no network is charging for it.
That is worth knowing when you are choosing how to pay somebody who is already here. A transfer beats a payout on cost every time, and the only reason to use a payout instead is that they are not on Ultraner.
Sending out to a mobile money account instead
Paying somebody who is not on Ultraner is a payout, not a transfer. It reaches the wallet they already use, takes seconds to minutes, and carries the network’s fee. Transfers between Ultraner wallets carry none of that.
