A spaza shop, a wholesaler, a driver and a municipality are four different businesses with four different systems — usually none of them talking to each other. Tengar builds the layer that connects them.
The intelligent operating system for the township economy.
THENGA is an offline-first B2B platform. Wholesalers publish live catalogues; retailers order against them; the order desk handles fulfilment; settlement closes the loop. Every interaction is written locally first and synchronised second, because a shop that cannot trade when the network drops has a business problem, not a software problem.
It runs as a progressive web app and ships as an Android application, so it works on the hardware a retailer or driver can actually afford.
In practice: a retailer in Sebokeng with one bar of signal can still complete a sale, and it will reach the wholesaler when signal returns.
Trade is not only ordering. Shoppers need power and signal, orders need to arrive, and money needs to move without a correspondent bank in the middle.
Managed community WiFi built for the shop next door — spaza businesses, hair salons, repair shops — rather than cafés or offices. Sold as a connectivity service.
Connectivity service only. KasieConnect is not a lending or banking product.
Last-mile delivery generated by real trade orders, plus standalone courier work. Costed per corridor rather than estimated nationally.
Transport is ~59% of SA logistics cost at R300–R350 per township collection trip — delivery economics decide whether a corridor works.
A rand-pegged digital token on the Stellar network, used for B2B settlement between wholesalers and retailers where conventional reconciliation is too slow.
A payment rail, not a bank deposit product. Not offered as savings or investment.
You order from wholesalers you already buy from, at prices you can see before you commit. Your margin is yours: set a target profit on each line and see what you actually make. Orders survive a dead network. Cash on delivery, card, EFT and mobile wallet are all supported because no single method wins in this market.
Publish once, sell everywhere. Import supplier price lists by CSV with AI-assisted parsing that understands pack sizes and variants. Track sell-through, reorder on forecast, and settle through B2B banking or ZArka. Your retailer's compliance status is visible to you, so you know who will pass a funding assessment.
Gig-linked work with clear task notification and route instruction. QR verification settles the delivery without a signature dispute. Earnings are visible in real time, because an opaque payout is the single biggest reason drivers leave platforms.
A verified view of registered, licensed and funded businesses in a corridor, plus the compliance status that funding programmes actually assess. Built to support economic development reporting rather than to replace municipal systems.
The platform is one thing; what it does for your side of the trade is another.