Tusonde by Vihlix
About Tusonde

The collection that already happens, with a record this time.

People come together for weddings, family celebrations, funerals and community causes. Tusonde keeps what people value about that, the committee, the meetings and the list, and replaces the parts that go wrong: paper that gets lost, pledges nobody chases, and money nobody can trace.

Tusonde
tu·SON·de · Luganda · verb
"Let's collect." The thing you say when the function is set and the money has to be found. Now also the place where it is collected.
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link, one pot

Share it on WhatsApp, by SMS, or as a QR on the meeting table. MTN MoMo and Airtel Money contributions reach the same collection.

You
and the team you choose

Start as an organizer. Invite committee members and assign signatories when you need shared payout approval.

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PINs we ever ask for

Givers approve the prompt on their own phone. Tusonde never sees a mobile money PIN.

Why we built it

The Chairman's Bag works, until it doesn't.

Thursday evening, a hotel garden, a committee at the front, a bag going round. Contribution cards. Pledges chased by phone call. A total read out at the end that nobody can check. It runs on trust, and most of the time trust holds.

When it doesn't, there is nothing to go back to. No record of who gave what, no record of what was spent, no way for the uncle in London to know his money arrived. Tusonde was built so there is always something to go back to.

"Givers do not have to ask. They can look."The rule every Tusonde collection is built on
The meeting is the product

Collections happen at meetings. So that is where Tusonde works.

A wedding meeting, a kwanjula meeting or a funeral committee produces the same three pieces of paper every time: the roll call, the pledge sheet and the cash list. Somebody reconciles them at midnight and reads the result at the next meeting. Tusonde does that work at the table.

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Open the meeting.Tonight's roll call, pledges and money are kept together, with the running total since the first meeting.
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Photograph the sheets.Plain paper is fine. Names, numbers and amounts are read in seconds, matched to people already on the list, and confirmed by the secretary before anything is saved. The photo stays with the meeting.
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Record the cash.Cash given at the meeting is recorded against the giver so the list is complete. It is tracked, not collected: it never counts as money in the pot, and the committee may deposit it by mobile money if they want everything in one place.
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Send the summary and the minutes.Tonight's total, the running total, pledges taken, who still owes, next meeting. The secretary adds the decisions and the minutes go to the group the same night.

There is no setup fee or monthly subscription. Processing charges are shown before confirming a contribution or payout.

How it is built

Four things we will not bend on

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The organizer cannot change.Givers contribute knowing exactly whose wallet the money goes to. That stays true for the life of the collection.
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Every payout needs approval.Organizers approve with an email code when running a collection alone. With assigned signatories, any two approve each payout.
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The record is public.Every contribution, pledge and withdrawal, with its purpose, charges and approvers, visible to anyone with the link, and still there after the function.
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One number, nothing hidden.Depositors see one processing fee added on top, so the full contribution reaches the pot. Withdrawals have one tiered processing fee, shown before the required approvals. Refund policy
Who builds it

Built in Kampala by Vihlix Limited

Vihlix is a Ugandan software company that builds enterprise systems for telecommunications and financial services clients. Tusonde is our own product: the same engineering, put to a problem every one of us has sat in a meeting for. Collected funds are held with a licensed payments partner in a dedicated account. Tusonde is not a bank and pays no interest.

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