CloudGrid Africa

Solutions / Custom business systems

A system built around how your business works, and secured from the start

When packaged software does not fit and spreadsheets have stopped coping, we design, build and run the system the business needs: bookings, payments, stock, members or compliance records, with the reporting management asks for.

What goes wrong

Growing businesses end up running on spreadsheets, paper and message groups. Each works alone, none of them agree, and the figures management needs take days to assemble.

Packaged software then forces the business to change how it works, or leaves the parts that matter most, such as M-Pesa reconciliation or a regulator's report, to be done by hand.

What it costs the business

Staff enter the same information in several places, errors reach customers, and nobody can say with confidence what was sold, collected or owed this week.

Systems built quickly and cheaply carry their own cost: customer and payment data sitting in an application nobody has tested for security.

What we do

  • Discovery and design

    We work through how the business runs today and agree what the system must do before anything is built.

  • Build

    Web and mobile systems delivered in stages, so staff use working parts early and correct the course.

  • Payments and integrations

    M-Pesa, bank and accounting integrations, with reconciliation built in.

  • Security from the start

    Access by role, audit trails, and security testing before launch. We test what we build the way an attacker would.

  • Reporting

    Dashboards drawn from the live data, so management sees the same figures the system runs on.

  • Hosting and support

    We host, monitor, back up and maintain the system after launch.

Systems we have built and run

Client names are left off this page. On a review call we can walk you through any of these.

  • Compliance consultancy, Western Australia

    Audit and compliance management

    A platform a disability-sector compliance firm uses to run client audits: onboarding, policy management, audit preparation, corrective actions and reporting against Australian NDIS standards.

  • Passenger transport SACCO, Kenya

    Operations and owner payouts

    Route and trip management, fleet maintenance, fuel tracking and parcels, with revenue distribution to vehicle owners and an audit log behind every payout.

  • Travel agency, Nairobi

    Reservations, ticketing and finance

    Bookings, ticketing and invoicing in several currencies with the exchange rate fixed at the time of each transaction, bank and M-Pesa reconciliation, and a client portal.

  • Supply chain and procurement business, Kenya

    Purchasing and shipment tracking

    Purchase orders, inventory and payments in one system, with shipments followed by live vessel position and every change recorded in an audit trail.

  • Church, Kenya

    Membership, giving and accounts

    A public site, a member portal and online giving, backed by HR, payroll and double-entry accounts with bank reconciliation and budgets for the leadership.

Prefer to talk it through?

A 30-minute call with Denis to describe the problem and hear how we would approach it. If we are not the right fit, we will say so.

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