Bujeti's New Mobile App Brings Finance Control to Africa

Finance teams across Nigeria and Kenya just got the tool they've been asking for: a way to manage company money without the reconciliation headaches.

Bujeti, a financial operations platform serving over 5,000 finance professionals, launched its mobile app to solve a problem familiar to any business with field teams. Sales reps, logistics managers, and operations leaders needed to pay vendors on the spot, but doing so meant using separate banking apps that created hours of reconciliation work back at headquarters.

"We use Bujeti for everything on the web, but when our sales reps are on the ground, they have to use a different app to make payments," one client explained. "Then we spend hours reconciling everything back into Bujeti."

The new mobile app changes that equation. When a field representative pays a vendor at 2:47 PM, the finance manager's web dashboard updates instantly with the receipt attached, budget adjusted, and transaction categorized automatically.

The app handles five core functions optimized for mobile use: fund requests, payment approvals, money transfers, receipt capture, and real-time transaction tracking. All actions sync immediately with Bujeti's web platform, giving everyone in the organization the same view of company finances.

Bujeti made a smart choice about what not to include. Complex tasks like building budgets, configuring approval workflows, and generating detailed reports remain web-only features. "When you're setting up budgets or building approval workflows, you need time and space to think," said Titilayo Akinjogunla, Head of Product Marketing at Bujeti. "When you're on the ground and a vendor needs payment now, you need speed."

The timing aligns perfectly with Africa's digital economy trajectory. Mobile services contributed $220 billion to Africa's GDP in 2024, and that number is projected to reach $270 billion by 2030, according to GSMA's Mobile Economy Africa 2025 report.

Selar's Chief Operating Officer, Seyi William Ogunbiyi, captured the value simply: "I'm an operator and I'm always on the go—this helps me."

The Ripple Effect

The mobile launch opens Bujeti's tools to people who rarely sit at desks: procurement officers negotiating with suppliers at warehouses, project managers tracking expenses at construction sites, regional directors approving payments while traveling between cities.

This matters especially for industries where most business happens in the field, including logistics, healthcare, agriculture, and construction. These sectors drive significant economic activity across Africa, and giving their teams financial tools designed for mobile-first work could unlock new efficiency gains.

Bujeti recently partnered with Nigeria's Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency to digitize thousands of Nigerian SMEs. The mobile app makes that goal more achievable by meeting business owners where they already are: on their phones, running their operations from wherever the work happens.

African businesses are building the future on mobile, and now their financial control can keep pace.