Built for African communities

One platform.
Communicate, trade & grow.

Olbongo digitises the whole office — books that post themselves, payroll with the statutory deductions worked out, staff records, stock and fleet — and keeps it in the same app your team talks in and your customers buy from. Bandwidth-aware, offline-tolerant, private by default.

No download — Olbongo runs in your browser and installs to your device in a tap. Open it at web.olbongo.com

End-to-end encrypted Works on 2G Offline-ready
web.olbongo.com
Accounting Search
Journal · POS sale Balanced
AccountDebitCredit
Cash on Hand10,000
Sales Revenue8,475
Output VAT1,525
Posted from Point of Sale10,000 = 10,000
Finance team
Zawadi’s invoice — did it clear?
Yes, receipt posted this morning

This month

Revenue12.4M
Expenses4.1M
Payroll3.2M

The office, digitised

The paperwork does itself.

The cash book, the attendance register, the delivery note — the work you do twice. Do it once in Olbongo and it lands everywhere it needs to, while your team stays in the same conversation.

On the desk today

Cash bookhandwritten totals
Attendance registersigned each morning
Delivery notecarbon copy, filed
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Olbongo one team

Done once, everywhere

Journal postedDr Cash · Cr Revenue, VAT split out
Payslip issuedPAYE, NSSF and NHIF worked out
Stock updatedand live in the storefront

An office is people, not just process. The same app your books run on is the one your team talks in, and the one your customers find you through — so a question about an invoice is a message, not another system to log into.

See the services

The ecosystem

One platform. Three pillars.

Everything in Olbongo is connected — your chats, your shop, your community. Nothing lives in a separate app.

Messaging · Voice · Video

Communicate

End-to-end encrypted chats, crystal-clear voice and video calls, and groups that bring people together — private by default and light on data, so conversations flow even on a weak signal.

Woza feed · Live Soko

Trade

The Woza feed turns the community into a marketplace: discover sellers, watch Live Soko broadcasts, and buy from local storefronts — all without ever leaving the conversation.

Storefronts · POS · Apps

Grow

Businesses get digital storefronts, point-of-sale, payroll and mini-apps — a full operating system that starts on a phone, not a server room, and scales with the hustle.

Everything your business runs on

One platform. Every service.

From reaching customers to selling to them and running the books — each service is powerful on its own, and unstoppable together.

And a growing marketplace

Payroll, reminders, help desk, mini-apps and more — installable inside the same Olbongo your team already uses.

See all features

Automation, not integration theatre

Do the work once. It lands everywhere.

Most “integrated” suites just share a login. These are the handovers that already happen inside Olbongo — each one is a thing you stop doing by hand.

A cashier completes a sale

A balanced journal is posted — cash, bank or credit on one side, revenue and VAT on the other, with cost of sales and stock moved too.

A customer pays down their credit

The receipt clears their outstanding invoices oldest-first and the receivable comes down. Nobody reconciles anything.

You hire someone in HR

They are payable immediately — payroll reads HR for employees and for the TIN, NSSF and NHIF numbers every deduction depends on.

You approve a payroll run

Wages and employer contributions hit the P&L, while PAYE, NSSF, NHIF, WCF and net pay become liabilities on the balance sheet until they are actually paid.

You add a product to stock

It appears in your Woza storefront. One catalogue, so the shelf and the feed can never disagree.

Every one of these is live today. Where something is still on the roadmap, we say so on the service’s own page rather than here.

How it works

One app for the whole day

From the morning check-in to the evening live sale, here's how communities actually use Olbongo.

Communicate

Talk freely — and privately

Every message and call is end-to-end encrypted with the Signal Protocol, so conversations belong only to the people having them. Voice notes, photos, reactions and HD video calls all work smoothly, even when the network doesn't.

  • 1:1 and group chats, encrypted by default
  • Voice notes and HD voice / video calls
  • Screen sharing and in-call chat
  • Delivery you can trust on 2G and dead-zones
9:41
MN

Mama Neema

online · encrypted

Habari! Umepata ile order ya kitenge?
Ndiyo 🙌 nimeituma leo asubuhi
0:12
Asante sana! Bei ni TZS 45,000 sawa?
Payment received · TZS 45,000
Message…
Trade

Sell live to a real audience

Go live with Live Soko and turn viewers into buyers. Pin products to the stream, take questions in the comments, and let customers check out in a tap — the shop, the show and the chat all in one place.

  • Broadcast to your community in real time
  • Tap-to-buy product cards over the stream
  • Live comments, reactions and offers
  • The Woza feed surfaces sellers to discover
9:41
ZB

Zawadi Boutique

Live Soko

LIVE
👁 1.2k watching

Amina Nataka hiyo blue moja 💙

Juma Bei ya XL?

Neema Nunua sasa!

Kitenge Wrap Dress

TZS 45,000

Buy
Add a comment…
Grow

Your whole shop, online in minutes

Any seller gets a digital storefront and point-of-sale with zero infrastructure and no fees to start. List products, track stock, take orders and get paid — a business that lives in the same app your customers already use.

  • Storefront + catalog with local pricing (TZS)
  • Point-of-sale and order management
  • Payments, receipts and stock tracking
  • Grows into payroll, fleet and mini-apps
9:41
ZB

Zawadi Boutique

4.9

Fashion · Dar es Salaam · 340 sales

Search this shop

Kitenge Set

TZS 45,000

Leather Sandals

TZS 28,000

Beaded Bag

TZS 32,500

Maasai Shuka

TZS 18,000

2 items · TZS 73,000
Checkout

Payments, storefronts and chat stay inside one encrypted account — no juggling five apps to run a business.

New · Olbongo Mail

Professional email, built into your platform

Olbongo Mail gives your business its own branded email on your own domain — with a beautiful real-time inbox, unlimited mailboxes, and deliverability handled for you. It lives right next to your chats, calls and storefront. One login for everything.

  • Branded email on your own domain — you@yourcompany.com
  • SPF, DKIM & DMARC set up for you — mail that lands in the inbox
  • Real-time inbox with instant new-mail notifications
Explore Olbongo Mail
yourcompany.comVerified

info@yourcompany.com

Mailbox

● active

sales@yourcompany.com

Mailbox

● active

support@yourcompany.com

Shared inbox

● active

hello@ → info@

Alias

● active
SPF ✓DKIM ✓DMARC ✓Unlimited mailboxes & aliases

A business operating system

Add the tools your hustle needs

Beyond chat and commerce, Olbongo is a marketplace of business apps — install what you need, when you need it. No new logins, no new devices.

Njiwa SMS

Bulk & transactional messaging to reach customers.

Payroll

Run salaries, payslips and statutory deductions.

Fleet Manager

Track vehicles, trips and drivers in real time.

VFD Scanner

TRA-compliant e-receipts and tax fiscalisation.

Analytics

Sales, traffic and customer insights at a glance.

Reminders

Automated follow-ups, appointments and dues.

Remote Support

Screen-share and assist customers or staff.

Marketplace

Install more mini-apps as the business grows.

Why it matters

Technology that meets people where they are

Olbongo isn't a Western app translated for Africa. It's built around African realities — the networks, the hustles and the communities that power the continent's economy.

Built for our networks

Bandwidth-aware from day one: media that loads on 2G days, and sync that survives dead zones and power cuts. Olbongo is designed for how connectivity really works here — not a Silicon Valley fibre line.

A shop for every hustle

Any seller gets a digital storefront and a live-selling audience with zero infrastructure and no fees to start. The corner shop and the online boutique run on the same footing.

Money stays in the community

Local buyers meet local sellers, and trade circulates where people live. Olbongo builds neighbourhoods and livelihoods, not just another platform taking a cut.

Private by default

End-to-end encryption means your conversations, your customers and your books belong to you. Privacy isn't a paid upgrade — it's the foundation.

3

apps in one — chat, commerce, business

2G

the network it's tuned to run on

E2EE

Signal-protocol encryption, everywhere

1

account for your whole community & shop

Built to last

End-to-end encryption (Signal Protocol)
MFA, SSO & SAML for organisations
Low-bandwidth first, 2G-friendly
Offline-tolerant sync
Microservices, scalable by design
Role-based access & full audit trails

The engineering choices behind a platform communities — and enterprises — can rely on.

Bring your community onto Olbongo

Open Olbongo in your browser today, or get the Android app. One platform to communicate, trade and grow — karibu!