Eight systems for admissions, fees, results, exams, staff and child safety. Parents use WhatsApp, or USSD if they have no data. Fees arrive on MoMo.
The opportunity
each one a decade-long customer relationship for the school, and for MTN
schools running admissions, fees, marks and staff on paper ledgers
internet users, with WhatsApp the most used app in the country
a learner stays enrolled, and the school bills the family every term of it
Learner count grounded in World Bank and UNESCO enrolment data: 5.3M primary pupils in 2024, plus secondary. School count is directional, to be confirmed in MINEDUB and MINESEC yearbooks.
How the office runs today
One number per school
Families only ever see a chat. Behind it sit eight complete systems sharing one database, one console and one MoMo rail. Buy them alone or run the whole operating system.
How a school goes live
Our team imports the registers: learners, parents, classes, fee structures, staff files and opening balances.
Registrar, bursar, director of studies and teachers certified on their own phones. The console replaces the ledger shelf.
A QR at the gate links every parent to their children. No app to download, nothing to learn.
Fees, registers, marks, payroll and safeguarding flow. Support lives in the same chat as the school.
Eight systems, one operating system
Enrol a learner on WhatsApp and keep the file for ten years.
WHAT IT DOES
Replaces paper registers and the admission cabinet.
Used by the registrar.
Bill every family, collect on MoMo, and see who still owes.
WHAT IT DOES
Replaces receipt books, the cash box and the store notebook.
Used by the bursar.
Take the register, enter the marks, and the report cards write themselves.
WHAT IT DOES
Replaces the attendance register, mark books and handwritten report cards.
Used by the director of studies.
Register every candidate for GCE, BEPC, Probatoire and Baccalauréat without the scramble.
WHAT IT DOES
Replaces the registration scramble and the exam fee cash box.
Used by the registrar.
Keep every staff file, and pay salaries straight to MoMo.
WHAT IT DOES
Replaces the staff cabinet and cash pay day.
Used by the vice principal.
Know where every child is, from the bus to the gate.
WHAT IT DOES
Replaces the gate book and the paper bus list.
Used by the discipline master.
A parent with no data still gets the marks and the fee balance.
WHAT IT DOES
Replaces the assumption that every parent has a smartphone.
Reaches the parents no app can reach.
See every campus on one screen, and file the ministry return in a click.
WHAT IT DOES
Replaces the Sunday phone round and the consolidation Excel.
Used by the proprietor.
Per school, per month
What schools compare us to
What this is worth to MTN
Illustrative economics for sizing. 2,500 schools is roughly one in ten nationwide; fee levels vary widely by school type.
How the money splits
Indicative split, to be fixed in the pilot agreement.
Who pays, in what order
Douala and Yaoundé first: 300 to 1,500 learners, real fees, paid admin staff, and arrears they can name. The OS replaces money they already spend.
Catholic, Protestant and Islamic networks and multi campus proprietors. One head office decision signs ten schools at once.
Communications and attendance at programme pricing, funded with the ministries and development partners, once the private schools have proved it works.
Pilot to repeatable launch
MTN nominates 25 pilot schools. MoMo collection rails connect, registers and staff files migrate, every office trains on its own phones.
Fees, registers, marks, payroll and safeguarding flow school by school. Parents join at the gate. MTN receives a weekly scorecard.
Collections, arrears recovered, attendance and staff adoption reviewed against the gates. Pricing locks from pilot data. Wave 2 of 250 schools is planned.
The ask
A school signs once and stays for a decade. The engine is already live with MTN Cameroon's business customers, so the build is behind us and the pilot can start this term.