SellCardNow buys gift cards from sellers across 10 African markets and pays in the local currency. Before you sell, it helps to know two separate things: the face value of your card in local money (a public exchange-rate fact) and the payout you actually receive (the live calculator price for a valid card). This page covers both, honestly.
The 10 markets and their 5 currencies
Ten markets, five currencies. Two of them — NGN, KES, GHS — float daily against the dollar. The other three markets share the CFA franc (XOF in West Africa, XAF in Central Africa), which is pegged to the euro at a fixed rate, so euro conversions are exact and never go stale.
| Market | Currency | Exchange behaviour | Local page |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇰🇪 Kenya | KES | Market rate (floats daily) | /kenya |
| 🇳🇬 Nigeria | NGN | Market rate (floats daily) | /nigeria |
| 🇬🇭 Ghana | GHS | Market rate (floats daily) | /ghana |
| 🇨🇲 Cameroon | XAF | Pegged to the euro (fixed) | /cameroon |
| 🇧🇯 Benin | XOF | Pegged to the euro (fixed) | /benin-fr |
| 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire | XOF | Pegged to the euro (fixed) | /cote-divoire-fr |
| 🇸🇳 Senegal | XOF | Pegged to the euro (fixed) | /senegal-fr |
| 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | XOF | Pegged to the euro (fixed) | /burkina-faso-fr |
| 🇲🇱 Mali | XOF | Pegged to the euro (fixed) | /mali-fr |
| 🇳🇪 Niger | XOF | Pegged to the euro (fixed) | /niger-fr |
Euro vouchers in FCFA — the exact conversion
Because the CFA franc is fixed to the euro at 1 EUR = 655.957 FCFA, the face value of a euro voucher in FCFA is exact and identical in XOF and XAF. This is the number people search for as « 50 € en FCFA » or « 100 euros en francs CFA » — it applies to euro prepaid vouchers such as Paysafecard, TransCash and PCS.
| Voucher face value | Face value in FCFA (XOF / XAF) |
|---|---|
| €20 | 13,119 FCFA |
| €50 | 32,798 FCFA |
| €100 | 65,596 FCFA |
| €150 | 98,394 FCFA |
| €250 | 163,989 FCFA |
This is the face value, not your payout. Your payout is a portion of it — the exact figure for a valid card is the calculator price. There is no fixed percentage: it moves with demand and the specific card.
US-dollar gift cards (Apple, Amazon, Steam, Razer, Xbox, Google Play)
Dollar-denominated cards are the most common globally, but their value in naira, cedis or shillings is not a fixed number: it depends on the day's USD exchange rate and on the card itself — a US Apple card and a UK Apple card of the same face value are not worth the same. That is why we never publish a fixed rate table for them.
Instead of a stale « $100 = X naira » figure, the honest answer is a live one. Open the rate calculator, pick the card, its region and amount, and your payout country — the number it returns is the final price we pay when the card is valid and matches your selection.
Which cards we recycle, and in which market
The core cards — Apple / iTunes, Amazon, Steam, Razer Gold, Xbox and Google Play — are supported across the markets. The Francophone markets also cover the euro prepaid vouchers Paysafecard, TransCash and PCS, which arrive from the diaspora and can't be spent locally. Exact coverage per country, with a dedicated page for each card, is here:
- All payout countries — pick your market and see its currency, rails and card pages.
- Anglophone: Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon.
- Francophone (XOF/XAF, euro vouchers included): Bénin, Côte d'Ivoire, Sénégal, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Cameroun (FR).
What actually decides your payout
Four things move the number the calculator shows — none of them is a fixed percentage:
- Card region. US, UK, EU, CA, AU are priced differently; the region must match the store country. A US Amazon card is not a UK one.
- Denomination. Face value and, for some cards, the denomination band change the per-unit value.
- Validity. The code must be valid, unused and not already redeemed. An already-redeemed or account-bound code has no resale value.
- Payout country. The same card pays a different local amount in each market because the currency and local demand differ.
Put those into the calculator and you get the final payout price. If it works, continue only through the official WhatsApp button on the site — SellCardNow rotates several official lines for security, so never trust a number from a screenshot, ad or forward.