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Tizon Request API

Access Global eSIMs & Topup API.

Pay with stablecoins, Lightning, and local bank transfers.

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eSIM data in 199 countries

Three calls to a working eSIM

Find a plan, pay for it, collect the eSIM. Everything else in the walkthrough builds on these three requests.

See each step in Node.js
api.tizon.mobile tz_test_…
  1. 1 GET /v1/offers?category=esim&country=JP find a plan 200
  2. 2 POST /v1/quotes pay with Lightning or USDT 200
  3. 3 GET /v1/orders/ord_01JAB4C8… get the eSIM 200

deliverable

{
  "type": "esim_profile",
  "iccid": "8981100022334455667",
  "lpa": "LPA:1$smdp.example.com$K2-1XYZ7-ABC123"
}

Use cases

Anywhere your users already hold money, connectivity is one more thing they can buy. Here’s what teams build with the API.

  • Crypto exchanges and wallets

    Let users spend their USDT on travel eSIMs and airtime without leaving your app.

    payment_source: 'usdt'

  • Lightning apps

    Sell data plans for sats: each purchase is paid over Lightning the moment it’s made.

    payment_source: 'lightning'

  • Neobanks and fintech apps

    Offer data for trips abroad and top-ups at home as an in-app purchase, next to cards and transfers.

    GET /v1/offers?category=esim

  • Remittance apps

    Send airtime or a data bundle home alongside a transfer. The recipient needs no app.

    destination: '+2348012345678'

  • Travel platforms and airlines

    Sell a destination eSIM with every booking, ready to install before the flight.

    GET /v1/offers?country=JP

  • Super apps and marketplaces

    Add eSIMs and top-ups to your catalog as a new product line, priced with your own margin.

    offer.price + your margin

  • Rewards and loyalty

    Let customers redeem points for data and airtime that your backend buys on demand.

    POST /v1/quotes

  • Field teams and workforce apps

    Keep drivers, agents and field staff online across borders, and top up their data from your ops tools.

    iccid: '8981100022334455667'

  • Chat and messaging bots

    Sell eSIMs inside a conversation: quote, get paid, and send the install QR code in the chat.

    deliverable.lpa → QR code

New to eSIM? Start here.

An eSIM is a SIM card that’s downloaded instead of inserted. Your code never touches the phone’s hardware: you give your user a string, and their phone does the rest.

  1. 01

    Your backend buys a plan

    POST /v1/quotes

  2. 02

    Tizon returns an eSIM profile

    iccid + lpa

  3. 03

    Your app shows it

    QR code or install link

  4. 04

    The phone downloads it

    from the operator’s server

  5. 05

    Your user is online

    on a local network

Five terms you’ll see

eSIM
A SIM profile stored on a chip built into the phone (the eUICC), installed over the internet instead of as a plastic card. Most travel eSIMs are data-only: no phone number.
ICCID
The eSIM’s unique number, 18 to 22 digits. Store it against your user: top-ups target it.
LPA string
LPA:1$<SM-DP+ address>$<activation code>. Everything the phone needs to install the profile. Render it as a QR code.
SM-DP+
The operator’s server the phone downloads the profile from.
Activation code
The last part of the LPA string, for users who type the details in by hand.

Before you ship

  • The phone must support eSIM and be carrier-unlocked. Most flagship phones from 2018 onwards do.
  • Installing needs an internet connection, so let users install before they travel.
  • A profile usually installs once. Show the LPA only to the user who bought it.

Request API Access

Tizon is in early access. Tell us what you’re building and we’ll send you tz_test_ keys, then help you through your first integration.

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Tizon is a prepayment technology API, not a telco. It’s built to make it easy for mobile and web app builders to offer eSIMs and top-ups to their customers. No prefunded account or minimum balance is needed: you settle in stablecoins, Lightning or local bank transfers. We support global, regional and local eSIMs.