Nairobi-based. Kenya-focused.

Custom software for businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets.

We build POS systems, ERP platforms, and payment integrations for Kenyan retailers, distributors, and service businesses. No templates. No copy-paste. We sit with your team, learn how you actually work, then build around it.

Fixed quotes, no surprises
M-Pesa & card payments
Hardware available on lease
Built for Retail & Mini-Marts Pharmacies Logistics Hospitality Distribution Manufacturing Hardware & Electronics Service Businesses
What We Build

Systems we get asked for the most

Every project starts the same way: we ask what's slowing you down. Then we build the thing that fixes it. Here's what that usually looks like.

01

POS Systems

A POS that works the way your shop actually runs. Ring up sales faster, track every item, take M-Pesa and card at the counter, and know what sold today without waiting for the end-of-day count.

  • Live stock levels across branches
  • M-Pesa, card, cash, and credit sales
  • KRA-friendly receipts & tax reports
  • Works offline, syncs when back online
02

ERP Solutions

When finance, stock, and HR live in different spreadsheets, someone is always chasing numbers. We put them in one system so you can see what's actually happening across the business.

  • Accounting, purchasing & inventory in one place
  • Supplier and procurement tracking
  • Payroll and HR records
  • Owner dashboards on mobile
03

Payment Integrations

We wire M-Pesa, card, and bank payments directly into your website, app, or POS. Customers pay how they want. You reconcile in one place instead of three.

  • M-Pesa STK Push & C2B
  • Card gateways (local & international)
  • Automatic reconciliation reports
  • Failed-payment retry & alerts
04

Custom Software

Off-the-shelf tools force you to change how you work. We build the other way around: your workflow first, then the software. Used by teams that have a process nobody else sells.

  • Web and mobile applications
  • Internal tools & staff portals
  • Booking, ordering, and client portals
  • API integrations with your current tools
05

Business Intelligence

You already have the data. The problem is it's scattered across systems nobody can agree on. We pull it into one dashboard so decisions stop being guesswork.

  • Custom dashboards for owners & managers
  • Daily, weekly, and monthly reports by email
  • Product, branch, and staff performance
  • Data from POS, ERP, and spreadsheets combined
See BI work
How We Work

From first call to live system

No mystery. Here's what happens after you get in touch.

1

Discovery call

Free, 30 minutes. We ask about your business, not our portfolio.

2

Scoping & quote

You get a written scope and a fixed quote. No hourly surprises.

3

Build in sprints

You see progress every two weeks. Feedback goes in immediately.

4

Launch & train

We install, train your team, and stay on call for the first month.

5

Support & evolve

Monthly retainer if you want it. Your system grows as you grow.

50+
Systems in production
8+
Industries served
99%
Uptime across hosted systems
24/7
Support line for retainer clients

POS Systems

Built for how Kenyan shops actually run.

What you get

Most off-the-shelf POS systems assume one branch, one currency, one way of selling. Real shops don't work like that. Here's what we build into ours:

  • Real-time stock across every branch, updated as sales happen
  • M-Pesa, card, cash, and customer credit on one screen
  • Automatic reorder alerts before you run out
  • Receipts and reports formatted for KRA
  • Staff accounts with permissions (who voided what, and when)
  • Works when the internet drops; syncs when it's back
  • Owner dashboard on your phone, not just the counter PC

We've deployed this for pharmacies, mini-marts, restaurants, and boutiques. Different businesses, same problem: too much guesswork, too many stock leaks.

ERP Solutions

One system. Fewer arguments about whose number is right.

What's included

Our ERP work usually starts with finance and stock, then expands. You don't have to buy the whole thing on day one.

  • Finance & accounting with proper audit trails
  • Purchase orders, GRNs, and supplier balances
  • Multi-warehouse and multi-branch inventory
  • Sales pipeline and customer records
  • Payroll, leave, and staff records
  • Role-based access — the accountant sees finance, not HR
  • Dashboards for owners who want the summary, not the detail

We've built ERPs for logistics firms, distributors, and manufacturers. Typical result: monthly reporting that used to take three days now takes an hour, and the numbers match.

Business Intelligence

Your data, finally in one place.

What we deliver

Most businesses have the data. What they don't have is a single place where it agrees with itself. That's the problem we solve.

  • Dashboards for owners, managers, and department heads
  • Automatic daily or weekly email reports
  • Product-level and branch-level profitability
  • Customer buying patterns & repeat-purchase rates
  • Slow-moving stock and dead inventory alerts
  • Data pulled from POS, ERP, Excel, and Google Sheets

No new staff needed. We connect to the systems you already use and hand you the answers, not another login.

Hardware & Rentals

Buy it, lease it, or rent it month by month.

What we supply

Software only works if the hardware it runs on actually works. We supply, configure, and support the full kit around the systems we build — and you can buy it outright or spread the cost.

  • POS terminals, touchscreens & all-in-ones
  • Thermal receipt printers & label printers
  • Barcode scanners (1D & 2D), cash drawers
  • Tablets for waiters, drivers, and field staff
  • Routers, switches, and network setup
  • Backup power (UPS) for till points

Rental & lease options

  • Monthly rental — low upfront cost, cancel anytime after 6 months
  • Lease-to-own — 12 or 24 months, hardware becomes yours
  • Swap-out warranty — if a unit fails during rental, we replace it, you don't wait
  • Bulk rentals for events, pop-ups, and seasonal branches

Perfect for shops that want to try the system before committing capital, or growing chains that need hardware rolled out fast across multiple sites.

Recent Work

Systems we've shipped

A few projects currently running in production. Names withheld where clients asked.

Retail POS system
Retail

Mini-mart POS chain

Three branches, one stock file. Shrinkage dropped from 6% to under 1% in the first quarter.

Enterprise ERP
Logistics

Fleet & finance ERP

Replaced seven spreadsheets. Month-end close went from four days to half a day.

Booking platform
Hospitality

Booking & payment portal

Handles 500+ bookings a month. M-Pesa deposits reconcile on their own.

BI dashboard
Distribution

Sales BI dashboard

Daily sales by route, rep, and product. Owner reviews it on his phone at 7am.

Merut Tech Solutions team

Since 2018

Building for Kenya

Why Merut Tech

We stick around after launch

Plenty of developers can deliver a system. Fewer will pick up the phone at 8pm when the till isn't printing and customers are waiting. We built this company around the second part.

We know Kenya

M-Pesa timing, KRA receipts, load-shedding, unreliable internet. We build assuming all of it will happen.

Software and hardware, one team

No finger-pointing between your software vendor and your hardware guy. We handle both, so fixes happen faster.

Support that answers

Retainer clients get a WhatsApp line to a real developer, not a ticket queue. Average first response under two hours.

Built to grow

From one shop to ten, or one van to a fleet. We've scaled the same codebase more than once. Yours is next.

More about us
Client Feedback

What clients say when we're not in the room

★★★★★

"Stock take used to eat two full days every month. Now I open the dashboard on a Sunday morning and it's already done. The M-Pesa reconciliation alone paid for the system."

JM
James Mwangi
Pharmacy Owner · Nairobi
★★★★★

"We'd been quoted six months by two other firms. Merut scoped it, delivered in eleven weeks, and it worked on day one. The monthly report that used to take my accountant three days now lands in my inbox at 6am."

AW
Alice Wanjiru
Operations Director · Distribution
★★★★★

"What sold me was the first call. They asked about our cancellations, not about our budget. Three months in, cancellations are down by half because the booking system actually holds the slot."

DK
David Kiprop
Founder · Hospitality
★★★★★

"Two shops, one stock file, no more phone calls asking 'do we have this at the other branch?' My manager used to walk between the two shops three times a day. Now she just checks the phone."

GN
Grace Njeri
Retail Manager · Thika
★★★★★

"Our invoices used to go out a week late because they were done manually. Now they go out the same day the load leaves the yard. Cash flow picked up within a month."

PO
Peter Otieno
Logistics Director · Mombasa
★★★★★

"I was nervous about the cost. Merut broke it into phases so I paid for the POS first, added the loyalty module three months later when it made sense. No pressure to buy everything at once."

SK
Sarah Kimani
Boutique Owner · Westlands
★★★★★

"We rented four POS terminals from them for a pop-up shop over December. They set everything up the day before we opened and took it all back in January. Zero hassle, and the sales data fed straight into our main system."

RK
Ruth Kamau
Retail Operations · Nairobi
Straight Answers

Questions we get on almost every call

It depends on scope, and anyone who gives you a number before understanding your workflow is guessing. As a rough guide: a single-branch POS typically lands between KES 180,000 and KES 350,000. A multi-module ERP usually starts around KES 800,000. We'll give you a fixed written quote after the discovery call — no hourly billing, no scope creep surprises.
A POS system is usually 4 to 8 weeks. A custom portal or internal tool is 8 to 16 weeks. A full ERP is 4 to 6 months, and we build it in phases so you can go live with finance first and add modules later. We give you a written timeline with the quote and update you every two weeks.
Both. We supply POS terminals, receipt printers, barcode scanners, cash drawers, tablets, and networking gear — configured and installed by the same team that builds your software. You can buy outright, or rent month by month if you'd rather not spend capital upfront. During a rental, if a unit fails we swap it out; you don't wait on a repair.
No. We've deployed systems in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, and Eldoret. Discovery and training happen over video, and for larger deployments we travel. The only thing we can't do remotely is walk into your shop and count stock, but we'll tell you upfront if we need to.
Every project includes 30 days of free support after launch, so we're on hand while your team gets used to the system. After that, most clients move to a monthly retainer that covers hosting, backups, bug fixes, small changes, and a support line. You're never locked in — if you'd rather take it in-house, we'll hand over the source code and documentation.
Usually yes. We've integrated with QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, Google Sheets, various SMS gateways, M-Pesa (obviously), and a handful of industry-specific systems. If a tool has an API we can generally connect to it. If it doesn't, we'll tell you what the alternative looks like before you commit.
You do. Once the project is paid in full, the code, database, and documentation are yours. We'll help you host it, or you can host it yourself. We don't hold clients hostage with proprietary code.

Let's talk about what's slowing you down

Book a 30-minute call. We'll ask how your business runs, where the bottlenecks are, and whether software is actually the answer. Sometimes it isn't — and we'll tell you that too. No sales pitch, no jargon.

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