Built in Nairobi, for Kenyan landlords.
Rent in Kenya moves on M-Pesa — but reconciling it doesn't. It happens in WhatsApp screenshots, forwarded receipts and a notebook of who-paid-what. Jengo started from one stubborn idea: the money already arrives digitally, so the ledger should reconcile itself.
The payment is digital. The reconciliation shouldn't be manual.
A landlord with even a handful of units spends the first week of every month matching M-Pesa messages to tenants by hand. Jengo closes that gap — not by adding another paybill to copy, but by connecting the payment straight to the invoice it settles.
From screenshots to a settled ledger.
The old way loses money in the cracks — a receipt never forwarded, a unit credited twice, a balance nobody can agree on. Jengo makes every shilling traceable to a unit, a lease and an invoice, so the books close themselves.
- Rent invoices issue automatically from active leases.
- An M-Pesa STK push lands on the tenant's phone — no paybill to copy.
- The payment posts against the invoice the moment it clears.
- Double-entry underneath, so the ledger is always balanced.
Four things we won't trade away.
Not slogans — each one is a real constraint on how the product is built.
Built for how Kenya actually pays.
Not a global tool with M-Pesa bolted on. The STK push, the receipt, the reconciliation — the payment rail your tenants already use is the centre of the product, not an afterthought.
We only claim what we ship.
No fake logos, no borrowed testimonials, no “compliant out of the box.” KRA integration is eTIMS-ready and clearly labelled as such. If it's not built yet, we say so.
Your books are yours alone.
Every landlord's data lives in its own isolated schema — one tenant can never see another's ledgers, residents or receipts. Isolation is enforced in the database, not just the UI.
The caretaker matters as much as the owner.
The people collecting rent on the ground get a tool that fits the real job — property-scoped access, a phone-first tenant flow, and a ledger that reflects what actually happened.
A small Nairobi team, close to the problem.
Jengo is built by people who've chased rent themselves — matched M-Pesa messages to tenants by hand, and got tired of it.
“I built Jengo after watching landlords I know lose the first week of every month to a notebook and a WhatsApp thread of forwarded receipts. The money already arrives on M-Pesa — the ledger should just reconcile itself. That's the whole product.”
See the ledger reconcile itself.
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