Lusaka Transit Group
Putting a 140-vehicle fleet online in three weeks
One of Zambia's largest intercity operators moved from cash-and-ticket-book to a fully digital sales and operations stack, under its own brand.
Industry solution
Transport & Logistics
Bus operators, freight carriers and logistics groups digitising ticketing, fleet operations and settlement across African corridors.
Digital infrastructure for operators who move people and goods
The problem
What we hear consistently
- Ticket revenue collected in cash across dozens of unmonitored depots
- No reliable view of where vehicles are or how full they are
- Paper manifests that make load factor and yield analysis impossible
- Connectivity that cannot be assumed anywhere along the route
Typical outcomes
- increase in captured ticket revenue
- 31%increase in captured ticket revenue
- from contract to first digital ticket
- 3 weeksfrom contract to first digital ticket
- products live per operator
- 5products live per operator
Figures are drawn from delivered engagements. Yours will differ — we will tell you what is realistic before you commit.
Our approach
How we actually go about it
Close the cash gap first
Agent POS with per-agent float, shift reconciliation and same-day variance reporting turns depot leakage from an accepted cost of business into a managed number.
Build for the network you have
Every field product works offline and reconciles later. That is an architectural commitment, not a feature flag — it shapes the seat inventory model, the payment flow and the sync protocol.
Instrument the corridor
Load factor, yield per route and agent performance become live numbers on a command center screen rather than a monthly reconstruction from ticket books.
Products
What we build on
Delivery draws on our own platforms where they fit, and on whatever else is right for the job where they do not.
- Mainza.ioDigital Infrastructure for African TransportA white-label transport SaaS platform for intercity bus operators in Zambia and Sub-Saharan Africa — five products per tenant, live in weeks.Explore Mainza.io
- StrataERPEnterprise Resource Planning, SimplifiedA modern cloud-native ERP for mid-size and growing businesses — finance, HR, inventory, procurement and operations in one unified system.Explore StrataERP
Evidence
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Talk to someone who has done this before
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