Most Southern African routes cannot move money.
No provider sells a local-to-local product, so every route is two legs joined by a settlement asset — and a route is only as good as its weaker leg. We read each provider's own documentation and mapped every leg. Where a route is blocked, we can say which half is missing.
Coverage of the 3 providers verified to date, not of the market. 5 further providers are on the panel and unread pending credentials; adding any of them will move these numbers materially. Cite the panel, never the market.
Pick two currencies.
The answer is worked out on the server, so it is in the page whether you are a person, a search engine or an agent.
Every provider says where it operates. Almost none says which way value travels.
A coverage list read as though it worked both ways is wrong about half the time. The largest payout network we checked reaches around thirty-eight African markets and collects in two. That gap is why most of the grid below is not green.
Money moves both ways
7Value can be collected here and paid out here.
Can receive, cannot send
2Value can be paid out here, and no provider on record collects the local currency. Every route out of these markets is blocked on a leg nobody controls.
Neither direction
7No provider on record collects or pays out here. In most cases the market is named and excluded on published coverage lists, which is a stronger fact than silence.
The same answer, as an API.
Any single route is free and needs no key. The full map of all 240 routes, with the leg breakdown and every dead direction, needs one.
GET /api/v1/routability?from=BWP&to=ZWG → one route, free GET /api/v1/routability → the full map, API key
Every leg carries a source and a date.
A route is only as good as its weaker leg
A documented collection joined to an unverified payout is an unverified route, not a half-documented one. Anything else lets a strong leg launder a weak one, which is how coverage maps stop being useful.
A checked absence is not the same as silence
Where a provider publishes a market list and a market is not on it, we record that it was excluded rather than that we did not look. Those two facts lead a reader to do different things.
We never promise a fill
We report what a provider declared and what we have observed, and let you decide. Promising a fill we cannot make good on would underwrite a risk we have no balance sheet for.
Routable is not settleable
This describes which legs exist on published documentation. Whether SwapEazi can settle a given route depends on partner onboarding that is still in progress, and we say so on every answer.
4 of the 16 SADC markets have at least one dead direction today.
Need a corridor that is not open yet?
We open corridors market by market and check each route before we do. Tell us the pair you need and we will tell you honestly whether it can be built and what is missing.