Case study · 01 / 062025 · Accra

Somavi.

Running a whole Ghanaian school in one place — fees, attendance, grades and parents, without the paper.

Client
Somavi Ltd, Accra
Scope
Product design, web app, Paystack & SMS integration
Stack
Next.js, Postgres, Paystack, Hubtel SMS
Year
2025 → ongoing
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Somavi homepage
The problem

Paper registers, exercise-book ledgers and WhatsApp chasing. Class 1 to JHS 3, on a headteacher's phone.

Most Ghanaian private schools run on notebooks and a treasurer's memory. Fees leak, attendance is guessed, and parents hear about it late. Somavi asked us for something a teacher could learn in an afternoon and a school could afford per student.

Students on the record
Fees view

Fees invoice per term, Paystack or cash, part-payments allowed. Outstanding balances stay visible until they're not.

What we did

Design and engineering sat together for four weeks in Osu. We modelled the school first — terms, classes, guardians, receipts — then drew screens on top of it. Every list is one tap from the record it describes.

Cedi-first pricing, SMS to guardians (not email — nobody reads it), and a demo school that anyone can log into without signing up.

"We stopped printing registers in week two."
Headteacher, Greenfield Academy
0

pilot schools in the first term

−0%

outstanding fees after one term of SMS reminders

0 wk

from first sketch to first school live

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