One POS System, Built for How Business Actually Happens Across Africa
Whether your customers pay by M-Pesa in Nairobi, OPay in Lagos, MTN MoMo in Kampala or Accra, or Airtel Money in Dar es Salaam, the same phone-based POS handles the sale, tracks the stock, and keeps working when the signal doesn't.
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Most POS software sold internationally is built for one payment habit — a card tapped on a terminal — and Africa is treated as an afterthought market to patch on later. That ordering is backwards for a continent where mobile money, not cards, is how most people actually pay, and where a business in Lagos, Nairobi, Kampala, Dar es Salaam or Accra all need the same basic thing: a system that takes the payment method their customers actually use, runs on a phone that's already in their pocket, and doesn't fall over the moment the network gets patchy. AskBiz is built for that reality directly, not as a regional add-on. The specific mobile money rail changes by country — M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN Mobile Money, OPay and others — but the underlying system is the same everywhere: mobile-money-first, phone-first, and built to keep working offline.
'Built for Africa' usually means 'built elsewhere, translated'
A lot of POS software marketed to African businesses is a system designed for the US or Europe with a currency dropdown added on. That shows up in the details that matter most day to day: mobile money is either missing entirely or handled as a manual add-on step, the app assumes a steady connection that doesn't reflect daily reality in large parts of Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania or Ghana, and a business operating across more than one of these countries has no clean way to run all of it from one account without juggling separate currencies and separate logins. The result is software that technically works but never quite fits — you're adapting your business to the tool instead of the other way round.
Mobile money and offline-first, wherever the business operates
AskBiz starts from the payment methods people actually use in each market — M-Pesa and Airtel Money in Kenya and Tanzania, MTN Mobile Money in Uganda and Ghana, and the equivalent local rails elsewhere — and takes them natively, alongside cash and card. It runs on any Android phone or iPhone with no terminal to import or maintain, and it keeps working with no connection at all, saving sales locally and syncing automatically the moment signal returns — a patchy network is a daily reality across the continent, not a one-country problem. With 150+ currencies auto-detected from a phone number at signup, a business operating across borders — say, buying from Nigeria and selling in Ghana, or running branches in two countries — can manage all of it in one account instead of stitching together separate tools per market.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Built for business owners, not data scientists.
M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN Mobile Money and more — the rail that matches your customers, taken natively.
Runs on any Android phone or iPhone through the browser or app. No terminal to source, ship, or maintain.
Sales save locally and sync automatically when the network returns — wherever on the continent you are trading.
Your currency is set from your phone number at signup, so cross-border and multi-country operators are covered from day one.
Per-branch currency and tax settings, stock transfers, and one dashboard — even if branches sit in different countries.
Ask what is selling, what looks off, or what to reorder, and get answers grounded in your own data, not a generic report.
How it works
Your country and currency are detected automatically, so the right mobile money options appear from the start.
Camera-scan barcodes or snap photos to build your catalogue — no separate scanner needed.
M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN MoMo, cash or card — whichever fits the sale, recorded automatically either way.
See daily performance per branch or roll it all up, even across currencies, in one dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
One POS system, built for how Africa actually trades
Mobile money native, works on any phone, keeps going offline. Set it up from your phone number in minutes.
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