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Money with a heartbeat.

Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals and follows up. Nothing leaves your account without your approval.

Meet Eva, the assistant inside the Pryme app. She holds dollars, pounds, euros and Naira side by side, swaps at a locked rate, pays bills in any of them and sends anywhere, asking before anything moves.

HomeEvery currency, every Box and every card on one screen.
Chat with EvaTell her the goal. She handles the steps and asks before anything moves.
Savings BoxesFlexible, Fixed, Investment and Interest-free, side by side.
Create a BoxPick the type, name the goal. Eva works out what to move, and when.
LoansSpaces credit and Salary Advance. Draw only what you need.
Invite friendsThree friends, ₦50,000 each, and ₦20,000 lands with you.
YouEva’s voice, your plan, your address and every security control.
Duress signalA word that looks normal on screen while your people are alerted.
Chat with EvaTell her the goal. She handles the steps and asks before anything moves.
Swap at the live rateOr name the rate you want and she swaps the moment it lands.
One card, every currencySpend from whichever balance suits, and freeze it from the app.
What Eva may do without askingStanding permissions, a voice, and a record of every rule you have given her.
Receipts anyone can verifyRegular or certified statements, e-signed and checkable by whoever receives them.
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Pryme app: Duress signal
Pryme app: Chat with Eva
Pryme app: Swap at the live rate
Pryme app: Multicurrency card
Pryme app: What Eva may do without asking
Pryme app: Receipts and statements
MoneyAgentsApprovalAgentsEvery currencyYour approval

Open an account. Get money to spend.

Global money. Intelligent growth.

We give you a limit to spend at the shops and services you already use — and an account that works on your month while you get on with it. Dollars, pounds and euros sit beside your Naira, and an assistant handles the running of it, asking you first every single time.

One global account for your money and business. Move across currencies, automate everyday operations and put AI agents to work — with you in control of every important decision.

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Personal · the app in your hand
Salary landed₦920,000 from John Doe Ltd · Naira account
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Move ₦100,000 to your Rent Box?Keeps ₦127.9m liquid · earns 18% p.a.
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Paid Ikeja Electric₦18,400 · token sent by SMS
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Swap $200 → ₦310,000?Rate locked at ₦1,550 for 30 s
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Held a ₦150,000 transferNew payee · unusual hour · needs you
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Received $2,400From a client · USD account
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Swap $200 → £—?Rate locked for 30 s
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Paid the light bill at home₦18,400 · Ikeja Electric
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Keep $1,000 liquid, save the rest?$1,400 → Flexible Box
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Held a £2,000 transferNew payee · needs you
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Eva, the assistant that runs a Pryme accountEvayour assistant
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Business Account

Open an account. Get customers.

Your competitor down the road sells the same thing you sell. The difference is who walks in. We put money in people’s hands that can only be spent in businesses like yours — and then we point them at you.

The Pryme Business home page: three currency balances on one account, the money actions, five agents working and a live stream of what they have done
Business · the page your team signs into
Spaces · Nigeria

We hand the customer the money. It can only be spent with you.

You are not borrowing. You are selling to somebody who already has the money — and that money can only be spent with a business like yours.

The business · Pryme Business
johndoe.mypryme.com · Spaces

Spaces Showing 30 days

Spaces is onshoppers near you can see your shop
Spaces brought you · 30 days ₦2,578,550.00 104 sales from 71 shoppers ▼ 4% on the period before
Where the money came from
91% shoppers who had been in before 9% first visit to your shop
21 of 71 came back more than once Average basket ₦24,793.75 Biggest shopper ₦142,300.00
24 Jul returningnew to you 22 Aug
Money on its way to you confirmed at the counter · on its way to your Naira account
Confirmed at the counter ₦47,150.002 sales today · final the moment they paid
Sales of 23 Aug₦90,9503 sales · confirmed
Sales of 24 Aug₦196,2005 sales · confirmed
Sales of 25 Aug₦47,1502 sales · confirmed
nothing for you to do · it arrives on its own
Lands in your NGN account ₦334,300.0010 sales in flight
The shopper · Pryme app
4:34
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BorrowLoans
SpacesSalary Advance
Spaces credit₦21,450 available
Repay ₦78,550
₦78,550 in use₦100,000 limit
Hold 25% · repay 2 more early to drop to 20%

₦100,000 from day one · agreement v2.1 · 12 Aug · View

Near youCategories 9Your loans 9
🛒Grocery / Retail4 places
🍽Eateries / Restaurants4 places
💊Pharmacies3 places
🎬Movies & Cinema3 places
🚌Transport3 places
💇Spa’s & Saloons3 places
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HomeBoxes CardsYou
Freeto join, nothing monthly. You are in the app the day you switch it on.
You get paidthe sale settles into your Naira account. Nobody to chase.
Zero riskwe carry the credit, whether or not the shopper repays us.
You growfaces that had never been to your shop — and most come back on their own.
The account

One account. Every currency you trade in.

Pryme Business4 currencies · one ledger
Base
₦127,328,879.23NGN · Nigerian Naira
$1,240.00USD · US Dollar
£480.00GBP · Pound Sterling
€310.00EUR · Euro
  • A named Naira account with Solid Allianze MFB — NDIC insured, your business name on it.
  • Real details abroad. A US account number, a UK sort code, an IBAN for the euro area.
  • Every currency has its own statement — regular or certified, with a code anyone can verify.
Swapping · in the app
4:34
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Current account · NGN ₦127,328,879.23
SwapBoth balances move at once, on one ledger
Fill it inAsk Eva
$1 = ₦1,650.00
FromNGN ▾
250,000Available ₦127,328,879.23
ToUSD ▾
151.52after swap $1,391.52
Rate$1 = ₦1,650.00
Fee—
You get$151.52
NowWhen it hits

Eva waits for your rate and asks before she moves anything.

Target rate
$1 =1,585.00₦
Set the watch
Pryme Pay

Take money on your site, or on a checkout of your own.

No card, no OTP, nothing for the buyer to type in. They transfer from the bank app they already use, and the money lands in the same account your agents are running — already matched to the order, already in your books.

Pay from your bank app

We give the buyer a one-time account number. They transfer to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in.

Get the account number
  • Card details are never asked for, so they cannot leak.
  • The account is used once, then it closes.
  • Held with a licensed bank, insured by the NDIC.
Transfer exactly this amount

To this account, from any bank app. We watch it, and the page updates itself.

Send exactly₦26,767.50Copy
BankSolid Allianze MFB
Account number0000 000 000Copy
Account namePRYME / JOHNDOE‑ORD1042
Watching the account — nobody has to confirm anything.
Payment received

₦26,767.50 from GTBank · John D., matched to order ORD‑1042.

OrderORD-1042
Settled intoJohn Doe Trading Ltd · Naira account 0000 000 000
Receiptsent to the buyer
Get your receiptRun it again
Your checkout, your brand.On the site you already have, in your colours, on your own domain — or on a page we host for you.
A link for anything you sell.One price, one buyer, one link — sent on WhatsApp, Instagram or email, and paid the same way.
It lands already reconciled.Matched to the order, receipt issued, and in your books before you have looked at it.
Business Account

A team you did not have to hire.

Five agents come with the account. Each one has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — nothing leaves the account without your signature.

CS Chief of Staff Runs the week

Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised — and keeps all three moving.

Booked a meeting with John Doe Foods for Thursday 11:00.
FI Finance Watches the money

Keeps the books as you trade and tells you the moment something does not add up.

Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.
COCompliance Keeps you inside the rules

Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.

Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.
SA Sales Chases what is owed

Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the receipt already attached.

Recovered ₦410,000 across three overdue invoices.
SU Customer Support Answers your customers

Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.

Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.
Every agent prepares and proposes. You are the only one who can approve.
Build on Pryme

Our rails, under your product.

Issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of your own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it. The same rails the Business Account runs on, with the licence behind them.

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Pryme Business

One business account. Every currency you trade in.

Dollars, pounds and euros beside a Naira account, on one ledger and one set of books. Five agents come with it and run the account — nothing leaves without your signature.

The Pryme Business home page: Naira, dollar and pound balances on one account, the money actions, five agents working and a live stream of what they have done
Business · the page your team signs into

A team you did not have to hire

Five agents come with the account. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set. They do the work and bring it to you — they propose, you approve.

CSChief of Staff Runs the week

Knows what is stuck, who is waiting and what you promised, and keeps all three moving.

Booked the quarterly review with your auditor for Thursday.
FIFinance Watches the money

Keeps the books in every currency you hold and flags the moment something does not add up.

Flagged a duplicate — invoice DP‑11908 was already paid in July.
COCompliance Keeps you inside the rules

Holds every filing to its own clock and screens names and payments against your policy — and logs what it refuses.

Screened 412 payments overnight and refused two of them.
SASales Chases what is owed

Goes back to the buyers who went quiet, with the invoice and the receipt already attached.

Recovered $12,400 across three overdue invoices.
SUCustomer Support Answers your customers

Replies, follows up on what they asked for and hands you only the ones that need you.

Resolved 4 conversations — two deliveries, one refund.
Every agent prepares and proposes. You are the only one who can approve.
Open a business account

Ten years, one trunk

The business has changed shape four times and never changed what it was rooted in. Each version was built out of what the last one could not do.

2016E-commerce

An online grocery store, built out of a faulty tab. Selling the food was the easy part — taking the money for it, and moving it, turned out to be the business.

2018OjirehPrime Card

A prepaid card. The first time the company issued rather than resold, and the first time it carried the obligations that come with holding somebody else’s money.

2020Microfinance bank

PrymeSolid Allianze acquired — an existing bank with an existing licence. The perimeter stopped being someone else’s to draw.

2023Multicurrency

More than one currency on one balance, and the rebrand to Pryme. A Nigerian business could hold dollars without holding a second institution.

2026Agentic operations

Accounts that do the work rather than only hold value. Five agents on the account, inside a policy you write — which is where the new mark starts.

Questions

The things people ask us first.

What is Pryme?

Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives people and businesses in Nigeria one account that holds Naira alongside dollars, pounds and euros, and a set of agents that do the running of it — keeping the books, chasing what is owed, answering customers and paying bills. Nothing leaves an account without the owner’s approval.

Can I hold dollars, pounds and euros in a Pryme account?

Yes. A Pryme account holds Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros side by side on one ledger, each with its own account details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area. You can swap between them at a rate you set, and every currency has its own statement.

What is Spaces?

Spaces is available in Nigeria. It gives a shopper money to spend that can only be spent with a participating business. The business is paid into its Naira account whether or not the shopper repays, because Pryme carries the credit. For the business it is free to join, there is nothing monthly, and the customer’s identity is never shown — only a reference and what it is worth.

What do the agents on a Pryme Business Account do?

Five agents come with the account. The Chief of Staff runs the week and keeps what is stuck moving. Finance watches the money and keeps the books as you trade. Compliance keeps the filings on time and screens what moves. Sales chases what you are owed. Customer Support answers your customers and follows up. Each has a job description, a budget and a ceiling you set, and each one proposes rather than acts — nothing leaves the account without your signature.

How does Pryme Pay work?

Pryme Pay takes payments on your own site or on a checkout page you control. The buyer is given a one-time account number and transfers to it from any bank app or by USSD — no card, no OTP, nothing to type in. The money lands in the same account your agents are running, already matched to the order and already in your books.

What are Savings Boxes?

Savings Boxes are separate pots inside a Pryme account, held in Naira. Flexible Boxes can be withdrawn at any time, Fixed Boxes hold to a date, Investment Boxes hold for longer, and Interest-free Boxes earn nothing by design. A business can use them to ring-fence payroll and the tax it withholds, so that money cannot be spent by accident.

Who holds my money, and is it protected?

Pryme is a financial technology company, not a bank. Accounts and deposits are provided by Solid Allianze Microfinance Bank Limited, which is licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria and is a member of the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Can I build on Pryme?

Yes. Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.

What is Pryme?

Pryme is a financial technology company. It gives you one account that holds US dollars, pounds sterling and euros beside Naira, with an assistant that runs the account for you and asks before anything moves. Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, and further markets open as each licence lands.

Can I open a Pryme account from outside Nigeria?

Accounts are provided in Nigeria today, subject to verification and approval. Foreign-currency balances are held and converted inside that account, so you can hold, receive and swap dollars, pounds and euros wherever you are.

Which currencies can I hold with Pryme?

Naira, US dollars, pounds sterling and euros, side by side on one ledger. Each has its own details — a Nigerian account number, a US account number, a UK sort code and an IBAN for the euro area — and each has its own statement.

How do I send money to Nigeria with Pryme?

Swap at a rate you set rather than the rate of the day, then send to any Pryme username or to a Nigerian bank account. There is no fee to send to another Pryme account.

What does the assistant do?

Eva is the assistant inside the Pryme app. She opens accounts, moves money, saves toward your goals, pays what is due and follows up what is owed to you — and asks you before anything moves.

What is Pryme Rails?

Pryme Rails lets a platform issue a dedicated Naira account number to each of its own customers, collect into it and reconcile against it, over one API — the same rails the Pryme Business Account runs on.

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Chemist (PPMV) vs pharmacy: capital compared

A patent medicine shop and a pharmacy differ in who may own them, what they sell and what they cost to start. Licences, stock and margins compared.

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Pryme editorialMake money desk · 19 Oct 2026 · 7 min read
The short answer

A patent medicine shop (PPMV, often called a chemist) is licensed by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria to an individual with at least a secondary school certificate and may sell only medicines on PCN's approved list; a pharmacy must operate under a registered superintendent pharmacist and may dispense prescription medicines. The PPMV route costs far less to start, with licence fees in the tens of thousands of naira on PCN's 2019 schedule, but its range, and so its earning ceiling, is narrower.

Many Nigerians use "chemist" and "pharmacy" for the same kind of shop. In law they are different businesses, with different owners, different stock and different costs. If you are deciding which to open, the right question is not only how much each costs, but which one you are allowed to run and what you will be allowed to sell once you open. For full licensing steps, see how to open a patent medicine store and how to open a pharmacy.

The two licence routes side by side

Patent medicine shop (PPMV)Community pharmacy
RegulatorPharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN)Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (PCN)
Who can hold itAn individual aged 21 or over who can read and write English, with at least a Secondary School Leaving Certificate or a PCN-accredited Pharmacy Technician CertificatePremises registered under a superintendent pharmacist who is fully registered, has done NYSC or holds an exemption and is current on mandatory CPD
What it may sellOnly patent and proprietary medicines on PCN's approved list, in original sealed containers; no repackingPrescription and over-the-counter medicines, dispensed under a pharmacist
Name on the signMust say "Patent Medicine Shop"; may not use "Drug Store" or "Medicine Store"Registered pharmacy name
RenewalLicence expires 31 December; renew by 31 JanuaryRenewal due from 1 January each year, online

The PPMV conditions above come from PCN's Reviewed Guidelines for the Issuance of Patent and Proprietary Medicines Vendors Licence, published in the Federal Government Gazette in August 2019. The pharmacy conditions come from PCN's Guidelines for Registration of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Premises, effective 11 November 2024.

Licence and set-up costs

PPMV

PCN's 2019 PPMV schedule lists an application fee of ₦500, a pre-approval inspection fee of ₦5,000, a registration licence fee (the scanned schedule appears to read ₦8,000), a renewal inspection fee of ₦5,000, a renewal fee of ₦5,000 and administrative charges of ₦20,000. If all of the first-year items apply, they add up to about ₦33,500. These are 2019 figures; confirm the current amounts with your PCN state office before you budget. You also need two referees, one of them a licensed pharmacist, a current tax clearance certificate and a pre-approval inspection of the shop, and new licence holders must attend an orientation course.

Pharmacy

PCN's 2024 premises guidelines require "prescribed" inspection and registration fees but do not print the amounts, so ask the PCN state office for the current figure. The guidelines say inspection follows within one month of a complete application and a licence is issued within 21 working days if everything is in order. The larger costs are outside PCN: a pharmacist's salary or partnership share, a premises that meets PCN's separate location and structure guidelines, and a wider stock range.

Stock capital: a labelled comparison

ItemExample PPMVExample community pharmacy
Licences, inspection and registration₦35,000₦300,000
Rent (one year, small shop)₦800,000₦1,500,000
Shelving, counter, signboard₦400,000₦1,200,000
Fridge, inverter or solar for cold items₦250,000₦900,000
Opening stock₦1,500,000₦6,000,000
Staff for the first three months₦300,000₦1,800,000
Total example budget₦3,285,000₦11,700,000

The pharmacy budget is about 3.6 times the PPMV budget in this example, and most of the difference is stock and the pharmacist. A pharmacy can stock antibiotics, chronic-condition medicines and other prescription lines that a PPMV may not sell, and those lines bring repeat customers.

Margins and earning ceiling

PCN does not set retail margins. Both shop types earn the gap between what they pay distributors and what they charge, and both compete with nearby shops on price. A PPMV's list is limited to over-the-counter products, which are widely available, so prices are compared closely and margins tend to be thin. A pharmacy can add consultation, prescription dispensing, refill services and chronic-care customers who return every month (see how to price medicines fairly). The trade-off is a much larger and slower-moving stock, and a pharmacist's cost every month whether sales are good or not.

What to check first

  1. Decide whether you or a partner is a registered pharmacist. If not, the PPMV route is the one open to you as owner, unless you employ a superintendent pharmacist.
  2. Ask the PCN state office for current fees and the location and structure guidelines for your area.
  3. Get the approved list of PPMV medicines and price your opening stock from it, not from a pharmacy's shelf.
  4. Confirm any shop you are buying or taking over on PCN's Verify Premises search (see how to verify a pharmacy).
  5. Plan for renewal each January and for continuing education every two years.

Where Pryme fits

Pharmacies are one of the sectors in Spaces, Pryme's merchant ecosystem in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, and a business in a supported sector with a Pryme Business Account can apply to join Spaces. Customers with Loans on Spaces, lent by Solid Allianze MFB, can spend only at merchants in Spaces. Whether a given shop qualifies is confirmed when it applies.

Questions people ask

Is a chemist the same as a pharmacy in Nigeria?

No. A chemist in everyday speech is usually a patent medicine shop (PPMV), licensed by PCN to sell only approved over-the-counter medicines. A pharmacy operates under a registered superintendent pharmacist and can dispense prescription medicines.

How much is a PPMV licence in Nigeria?

PCN's 2019 schedule lists ₦500 application, ₦5,000 pre-approval inspection, a licence fee that appears to read ₦8,000, and ₦20,000 administrative charges, about ₦33,500 if all apply. Confirm current fees with your PCN state office.

Can I open a pharmacy if I am not a pharmacist?

PCN requires a pharmacy's premises to be under a superintendent pharmacist, and a company owning one must have at least one pharmacist on its board. A non-pharmacist can invest but cannot run it without one.

Can a patent medicine store sell antibiotics?

A PPMV may sell only medicines on PCN's approved list for patent and proprietary medicine vendors, in their original containers. Check the current list with PCN before stocking any product.

Sources

  1. Pharmacists Council of Nigeria: Reviewed Guidelines for the Issuance of Patent and Proprietary Medicines Vendors Licence (S.I. No. 136 of 2019) · accessed Oct 2026
  2. Pharmacy Council of Nigeria: Guidelines for Registration of Pharmacists and Pharmaceutical Premises (effective 11 Nov 2024) · accessed Oct 2026
  3. Pharmacy Council of Nigeria (home page, Verify Pharmacist and Verify Premises) · accessed Oct 2026

This article is general information, not financial, legal or tax advice. Products described are provided under the terms on this site and are subject to regulation and eligibility.

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