We're building the school wallet Africa deserves
SEndiPay started with a simple frustration: cash sent to school with children rarely ends up where it was intended. We built the fix.
Cash at school is a broken system
Every school day across East Africa, parents send thousands of shillings with their children — in their pockets, in their bags, in their socks. Some gets lost. Some gets spent on the wrong things. Almost none is trackable.
Schools struggle with cash reconciliation, canteen theft, and the administrative burden of managing petty cash for dozens of payment types. Parents have zero visibility once their child walks through the school gate.
SEndiPay replaces all of that with a fingerprint-secured digital wallet — designed from the ground up for African schools, mobile money infrastructure, and parents who want to stay connected.
Request a Demo →Cash at school fails everyone
Parents can't see how money is spent
Cash sent with children disappears into a black box. No way to know if lunch was actually bought.
Children lose cash or get robbed
Physical money is a target. Students lose coins, older students take from younger ones.
Schools drown in cash reconciliation
Canteen staff count coins, bursars reconcile registers, and discrepancies take hours to trace.
SEndiPay: Parents top up digitally
Via MTN MoMo or Airtel Money — no cash ever changes hands. Set limits, track spending, get instant notifications.
Students pay with a fingerprint
Nothing to lose, nothing to share, nothing to steal. A fingerprint is always with the child — always.
Schools get automatic reconciliation
Every transaction is logged digitally. Daily settlement reports generate themselves. Zero cash at the canteen.
Our values
We're a fintech company, but our mission is fundamentally about children. That shapes every product decision we make.
Security is non-negotiable
Biometric data never leaves the school device. Every transaction is encrypted end-to-end.
Parents come first
Real-time notifications, spending controls, and balance visibility — built for parents who care.
Built for Africa
MTN MoMo and Airtel Money from day one. Offline-capable hardware. Designed for African school realities.
Simple enough for anyone
A canteen cashier, a 9-year-old student, a 60-year-old parent — everyone can use SEndiPay without training.
From idea to 10,000 wallets
We started with a single pilot school in Kampala. Today SEndiPay processes millions of shillings every term.
The Problem Identified
Founders with fintech and mobile money backgrounds saw how schools struggled with cash and parents had zero visibility.
First School Pilot
Launched at a primary school in Kampala with 200 students. Fingerprint scanners installed, parent app rolled out, zero cash from day one.
MTN & Airtel Integration
Integrated MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money, making SEndiPay accessible to every Ugandan parent.
50+ Schools, 10,000+ Wallets
Expanded across Kampala, Entebbe, Jinja, and Mbarara. Launched trip and uniform payment modules.
Regional Expansion
Targeting Kenya, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Building the API layer for school management system integrations.