The Mobile App Revolutionising African Churches

I first came across Asoriba - a web and mobile app for church leaders - a couple years back when I visited the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), an institute in Accra, Ghana, that’s helping to build and invest in Africa’s next generation of software entrepreneurs.

Since then, Asoriba has been voted Best Startup in Ghana twice by Seedstars and Ringier/Pulse, Best Startup in Africa by Seedstars, and were participants in Techstars’ first cohort in Africa.

Its four co-founders, Saviour Dzage, Jesse Johnson, Patrick Ohemeng Tutu and Nana Agyemang Prempeh first met at MEST, and came up with the idea whilst there: ‘We realised that we were all closely-affiliated with our respective churches,’ says Nana. ‘Diving deep into that, we found that churches in Africa face four major challenges: managing membership data; communicating with members beyond church services; managing finances; and reaching their members easily with real-time information about events, retreats and upcoming meetings.’

The Asoriba app helps church leaders to seamlessly collect and organise data through members’ mobile phones. They can use their phones to update information about the church and its activities, and everything is organised in a database or CRM.

In addition, Asoriba supports efficient financial management and allows church leaders to manage multiple branches of their church wherever they are in the world. ‘Think about it this way, the Asoriba mobile app is a Facebook for church members and leaders,’ Nana explains. ‘And the Asoriba web app is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool for church leaders to manage the church easily and effectively.’

Asoriba currently operates in Ghana and Nigeria and is about to open up to South Africa - with plans to later expand in to Kenya, the UK and US.

Read full interview on my A2020 platform (http://africabusiness2020.com/2017/04/03/asoriba-mobile-app-revolutionising-african-churches/) and visit Asoriba.com