How to Start VTU Business in Nigeria

Starting Your VTU Business in Nigeria can be the best decision you will ever make.

In this guide, I will take you through the practical steps that will help you to start your profitable VTU business immediately today.

Let’s move in!

What’s VTU Business?

Incase you don’t have clarity about what a VTU Business is, let’s have it’s simple definition here.

👉 VTU stands for Virtual Top Up

In Nigeria, there are over 50 million people who need to top up their Airtime, Data Bundles, Electricity, DSTV, or GoTV everyday.

As a VTU Business person, your job is to have your customers from these set of persons and sell to them whenever they need any of the subscriptions.

In a nutshell, with VTU business, you will be able to sell Data Bundles, Airtime, Electricity, DSTV subs, GoTv subs, StarTime subs, WAEC pins, and so on.

How Much Can You Make From VTU Business?

You can make up to ₦5000 every single day by simply using your smartphone to sell Data Bundles, airtime, and other stuffs.

Let’s do this simple math:

On DataLight.ng, you will be buying 1GB of MTN data (SME) at the rate of ₦264. You will resell at the rate of ₦350, making you ₦86 on one GB.

With good advert, you can sell up to 100GB per day, making you ₦8,600 every blessed day.

By the way, I just sold 116GB a day before writing this paragraph (yesterday). You can do better!

How to Start VTU Business in Nigeria – Step by Step

Starting your VTU Business isn’t a stress at all. You can get up and running in just 15 minutes.

Here are the 5 simple steps to start your profitable VTU Business in Nigeria

1. Create Your Account on DataLight.ng
2. Fund Your Wallet
3. Upgrade to the Agent Package
4. Get Your Flyer From DataLight’s Customer Care
5. Promote Your Business

Let me walk you straight into the 5 simple steps.

1. Create Your Account on DataLight.ng

Visit datalight.ng and click on the button “Create Free Account.”

It will take you to the signup page, where you’re required to supply your little information. The signup page will look like the image below:

Fill everything appropriately. Below is an example of mine:

Things to take note of:

• Your transaction pin must be 4 digits (you will use it anytime you want to perform any transaction)
• Your password must be strong and must be something you won’t forget (you will use it anytime you want to login)
• Your username must be a single word, e.g, Adeoti.

After filling the form, just click on the Register button, and it will create your account and automatically log you in. The next thing you will see is the dashboard, but if it brings any error, try to fix your input and click on the Register button again.

This is how the dashboard should look like:

2. Fund Your Wallet

After creating your account, the next thing is to fund your wallet.

If you scroll down a bit, you will see a portion where it says “Wallet Balance”. At this moment, your wallet will be 00.00. So you will need to fund it.

To fund your wallet, click on the “Fund Wallet” button.

Then, you will see about three different account details that you can pay to. All of these account details are automated and tailored to you. So, if you send money to any of the account details, the money will reflect on your wallet immediately.

Now, let’s go ahead and fund the wallet. I prefer using the Moneipoint account details, but you can use any of them.

I will copy the account number and send ₦3000 to it from my bank account. You should also not that there will be ₦50 bank charges anytime you fund your wallet with the automated method. For example, if you send ₦1000 to your wallet, you will be credited with ₦950, or if you send ₦2000, you will have ₦1950 in your wallet, and so on.

The bank charge of ₦50 is fixed; even if you send ₦100,000 to your wallet, only ₦50 will be deducted.

Im my case, I want to send ₦3000 to my wallet, I will get ₦2950. You can start with ₦1000 or any amount of your choice. But I advise you to fund your wallet with ₦1000 or above, so that you will be able to upgrade to the Agent Package once and for all.

Here is my wallet balance after sending ₦3000 to the Moneipoint Account:

3. Upgrade to the Agent Package

After funding your wallet, the next thing is to upgrade to the Agent Package, so that you can become an Agent, and start getting Data Bundles and other products at affordable prices.

To upgrade your account, simply click the arrow next to the Sterling on the dashboard.

Wrap Up – How to Start VTU Business in Nigeria

Now that you’ve read this guide, I believe that you can go ahead and start your VTU Business right away. I wish you success in your journey 🥰

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