Africa's technology layer for waste management. Map your opportunity, collect payments, keep the books and monitor every collection—from your first pickup to your millionth.
Trusted by waste operators building the future of African cities
One platform.
Everything your waste business needs to run.
Waste management doesn't need another disconnected tool. It needs infrastructure that connects the entire operation — from the customer record to the truck to the money.
Run the whole operation from one platform
Customers, subscriptions, collections, field teams, service areas and performance — managed in a single system instead of five that never agree with each other.
- Customer & subscription records
- Collection scheduling
- Field team dispatch
- Service area coverage
Move money through your waste ecosystem
Collect from customers, reconcile every transaction against the right account, manage payouts to crews and partners, and connect the business to modern payment rails.
- Mobile money, card & bank
- Automatic reconciliation
- Payouts & settlements
- Arrears and aging
Payments in the hands of the people doing the work
Kutola POS puts collection and payment on the same device, so field workers can accept and record money exactly where service happens — at the gate, on the street, off the network.
- Accept payment on-site
- Digital receipts
- Works offline, syncs later
- Tied to the service record
Know where your vehicles are, and where they've been
Track fleets in real time and turn raw movement into operational intelligence — which routes run long, where trucks idle, and whether the round on paper matches the round on the ground.
- Live vehicle tracking
- Route history & playback
- Idle and fuel insight
- Proof of service by GPS
Every collection becomes data you can act on
Collections, payments, customer interactions, vehicle movement and field activity all land in one reporting layer — so the numbers you report are the numbers that actually happened.
- Operational dashboards
- Revenue & cost per route
- Council-ready reporting
- Exports and open API
Draw an area.
See the business inside it.
Understand the people, customers, demand and operational opportunity within any area. Trace a boundary on the map and Kutola tells you what's inside it — and what it means for where you focus, expand and optimise.
- Estimated households
- ≈ 4,800
- Registered customers
- 1,260
- Active customers
- 1,080
- Overdue accounts
- 96
- Collection zones
- 8
- Recommended routes
- 12
Illustrative example. Estimates come from building footprints and your own customer records.
Estimated households
How many homes are likely inside the boundary, counted from the roofs.
Customer coverage
Existing customers against households you don't serve yet.
Revenue opportunity
What the area would earn each month if eligible households subscribed.
Waste demand
Expected collections and waste volume from the people who live there.
Service coverage
Which streets are served, and which are being missed.
Customer density
Where customers cluster, so routes follow the demand.
Operational needs
Routes, collection points, vehicles and crew the area will take.
Area performance
Payments, missed collections, active and overdue accounts by area.
The digital infrastructure behind every collection
One bin emptied touches six systems. Kutola makes them the same system.
- 01Customer
Signs up, subscribes
- 02Payment
Pays on any rail
- 03Field worker
Records on POS
- 04Vehicle
Tracked by GPS
- 05Collection
Verified on site
- 06Data
Feeds every report
Kutola connects every layer of the waste management journey.
Instead of running separate systems for customers, payments, field teams, vehicles and reporting, operators get one connected infrastructure layer — where each step writes to the same record, and nothing has to be typed twice.
From the gate to the ledger.
Without retyping a thing.
Kutola collects the money, receipts the customer and keeps the books — one record from the moment a household pays to the moment your accountant signs off the month.
Collect
Mobile money, card, bank transfer and cash on the POS — every payment lands against the right customer and invoice.
Receipt
A digital receipt goes out the moment a payment is recorded, by WhatsApp or SMS. No paper books, no disputes.
Post
Double-entry journals post themselves to your chart of accounts, so the books are current without anyone re-keying them.
Report
Close the month with a trial balance, P&L and balance sheet ready — and hand your accountant a clean export.
Built for the realities
of Africa
Africa's waste sector is growing fast — but much of the infrastructure underneath it is still fragmented. The work gets done; it just doesn't get recorded, reconciled or measured.
We build technology that works where waste actually happens — on the street, in the field, at the customer's gate, and inside the operator's office. Offline when the network drops. On the phone the crew already carries.
- Paper recordsDigital service records
- Cash paymentsMobile money, card and cash — reconciled
- WhatsApp coordinationDispatch built into the platform
- Disconnected GPS systemsFleet data tied to the collection
- Manual reconciliationPayments matched automatically
- Limited operational visibilityLive operational intelligence
More than software.
We build the infrastructure.
Five layers, built to work as one. Take the whole stack, or start with the layer that hurts most.
Software
The operating system for waste management.
Payments
The rails that move money through the waste ecosystem.
Hardware
POS devices that bring digital payments to the field.
Tracking
GPS infrastructure connecting vehicles to operations.
Intelligence
The data layer that turns operations into decisions.
One platform, seven vantage points
Every organization in the waste chain sees the view that matters to them — on shared, connected data.
Run a tighter collection operation
Swap route guesswork and paper logs for planned runs, GPS-verified pickups, and billing that reconciles itself.
- Dynamic route optimization
- Driver app with proof of service
- Real-time fleet performance
- Automated customer invoicing
Live in a week, not a quarter
No hardware to install and no six-month rollout. Most teams run their first optimized route the day after signing up.
01Import your customers
Upload a spreadsheet or add service points on the map. Kutola geocodes each address and builds your customer base in minutes.
02Plan and dispatch runs
Generate optimized routes from real stop density, assign them to crews, and push the day's work to the driver app.
03Bill, track, and report
Pickups log themselves with GPS proof, invoices go out automatically, and your monthly reports are already written.
Operators who stopped guessing
What changes when the whole collection cycle runs on one set of numbers.
“We were losing a third of our collections to missed stops nobody logged. Within a month of moving onto Kutola we could see every route in real time — and the arguments about who picked up what just stopped.”
“Invoicing used to take two people the better part of a week. It now runs itself and our collection rate is the highest it's ever been.”
“For the first time we have a single view of every licensed collector operating in the district, and residents can report dumping directly.”
One infrastructure layer.
Endless possibilities.
As waste management evolves, Kutola is building the foundation for what comes next — so the systems a city needs in five years can be built on what operators are already running today.
Waste collection
Digitise and optimise everyday collections — the round, the record, and the revenue behind it.
Recycling
Connect collection networks to the circular economy, with material tracked from kerb to buyer.
Municipal services
Give cities real visibility into how waste service is actually delivered across every ward.
Environmental intelligence
The data infrastructure for measuring waste volumes, diversion and environmental impact — with numbers that trace back to a real collection, not an estimate.
Financial infrastructure
Seamless payments between customers, operators, workers and partners — and the transaction history that makes waste businesses financeable.
Questions, answered
Still unsure whether Kutola fits your operation? Talk to someone who has onboarded a round like yours.
Most teams are running their first optimized route within 24 hours. You import customers from a spreadsheet or add them on the map, we geocode the addresses, and your crews download the field app. There is no hardware to install.
Put your operation on real infrastructure
See how operations, payments, POS, fleet tracking and intelligence work as one system. Book a demo, or start with the layer that hurts most.
No card required · Cancel anytime · Data export always included