New — Daraja now disburses to Equity Bank and NMB same-day. Read the release notes
Live in 15+ Tanzanian companies Built in Dar es Salaam

Finance built for the way African SMEs actually run.

Fedha za kampuni — kiganjani mwako.

Expenses, approvals, payroll, mobile-money and bank disbursements — in one platform. Live in days, not months.

No setup fees Month-to-month 13 payment rails
Daraja mobile app — Office Wallet, Quick Actions, Salary Advance
Approval · just now
AH Amina HassanFuel · TZS 250,000

Trusted by growing Tanzanian companies.

Swahilies Medikea Tembo Malipo Pay Kibo Capital Zantel Logistics Pwani Foods +15 more across Dar & Arusha

The mobile app is just the start.

Everything you need to move company money with control — cards, cash, approvals, payroll and reconciliation, in one platform.

Company wallet

A shared float that every department spends from. Top up from CRDB, NMB, NBC or M-Pesa. See balance change live as approvals clear.

Expense requests

Staff submit with a receipt photo. Managers approve from their phone.

AH
Fuel · Amina H.M-Pesa
250,000
Paid
JM
Lunch · Juma M.Tigo Pesa
80,000
Pending
NS
Travel · Neema S.CRDB
420,000
Paid

Payroll

Monthly salaries, bonuses and advances. PAYE and NSSF calculated.

Payroll · November
TZS 12.4M
42 employees · Approved
Review Run now

Multi-step approvals

Route requests by amount, department or project. Clear from a push.

Request submittedAmina H. · 09:24
Manager approvedPeter M. · 09:31
Finance reviewAwaiting Sarah K.

Bills & utilities

LUKU, DAWASA, GePG and vendor invoices from one balance.

LUKU
LUKU
Tanesco
GePG
GePG
Gov bills
Selcom
Selcom
Merchants
Vodacom
Airtime
All networks
Built for how African finance teams work

Every shilling has a name on it.

From the request form a junior accountant opens, to the CFO's month-end ledger — four things Daraja does better than spreadsheets, WhatsApp and petty cash.

01Control
02Approve
03Pay out
04Audit
01 · Controls

Control spend before it happens.

Set per-role, per-category and per-department limits. Nightly spend caps. Project budgets that auto-enforce. Employees request within the rails you've drawn — you spend less time saying no.

Explore spend controls

Field Ops · November

62% used
TZS 1,860,000of 3,000,000
Per-request limit TZS 500,000
02 · Approvals

Approvals that route themselves.

Two-step for amounts over 500k, three-step for project spend, auto-approve under 50k. Approvers act from a push — they don't need the laptop. Every step is logged.

See approval flows
01
AH
Submitted · Amina H.Fuel reimbursement · TZS 250,000
02
PM
Manager · Peter M.Approved from mobile · 7 min later
03
SK
Finance · Sarah K.Reviewing now
04
M-Pesa
PayoutM-Pesa · same day
03 · Payouts

Thirteen payment rails, one balance.

Mobile money to M-Pesa, Tigo, Airtel and Halotel. Bank transfers to CRDB, NMB, NBC, Equity and Stanbic. Bill-pay to LUKU, DAWASA and GePG. Same balance, same ledger, no juggling portals.

See all rails
M-Pesa
Tigo Pesa
Airtel Money
HaloPesa
CRDB
NMB
NBC
Equity
04 · Audit

The ledger closes itself.

Every request, every approval, every payout — logged with timestamp, user, device and category. Export to QuickBooks, Xero or CSV. Auditors stop asking for screenshots.

Explore audit & reconciliation
audit-log · period_2024_11.json LIVE
PAYOUTCleared to M-Pesa
255744…123 · TZS 250,000 · auto-matched to req #4821
09:42:17
APPROVESarah K. signed off
Finance · iOS 17 · Dar es Salaam · device-trusted
09:38:04
APPROVEPeter M. approved
Manager · Android 14 · Arusha · push notification
09:31:11
UPLOADReceipt attached
Amina H. · receipt-photo.jpg · 1.2 MB
09:24:55
CREATERequest opened
Amina H. · Fuel · TZS 250,000 · category #fleet
09:24:40
Period closed. 1,284 events reconciled · 0 exceptions.
sha256:9a4f…2c1e
Export → QuickBooks Xero CSV

Numbers from real Daraja customers.

What finance teams running their spend on Daraja see after 90 days.

Time saved
38hrs
Average finance-team hours reclaimed per month — no more WhatsApp reconciliation.
From the Swahilies finance team
Approval speed
12×
Faster than routing requests over email. Most clear in under 10 minutes.
Across Tembo Logistics' 220 drivers
Reconciliation
100%
Of transactions matched to a request, an approver and a ledger code. Month-end in an afternoon.
Malipo Pay — zero exceptions in 6 months
Swahilies
"We were chasing receipts on WhatsApp for two years. Now every expense lands with a photo, a category and an approver on it. Month-end is a Tuesday afternoon, not a week."
Mohamed Ngarama
Mohamed Ngarama
Founder · Swahilies
Read the Swahilies case study
"
5d → 1d
Month-end close time — before and after switching to Daraja.
Swahilies Medikea Tembo Malipo Pay

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Notes from finance teams across East Africa.

All resources
01
Guide8 min read

How mid-sized Tanzanian SMEs close their books in 24 hours.

A practical playbook covering approval chains, mobile-money reconciliation, and the three reports your auditor actually wants.

02
Case studyMedikea

Cutting fuel-expense fraud to zero with photo-receipt workflows.

Medikea's ops team was losing TZS 1.8M/month to ghost receipts. What changed when every submission needed a timestamped photo.

03
BenchmarkIndustry

SME spend trends in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda — 2025.

Category mix, payment-rail preferences and approval cadence, pulled from anonymised data across 200+ East African companies.