Built in Kenya.
Built for builders.
Palpluss exists because African developers deserve the same frictionless payment infrastructure that engineers in New York and Berlin take for granted. We are fixing that — from Nairobi.
Our Mission
To make M-Pesa programmable — removing the complexity of Daraja so developers across Africa can build payment-powered products in minutes, not months.
Our Vision
A continent where every developer — from a solo hacker in Westlands to a 500-person fintech in Lagos — can collect and disburse money as easily as sending a text message.
Our Story
Palpluss was born out of frustration. Our founders spent weeks trying to integrate M-Pesa Daraja into a product — navigating outdated documentation, sandbox bugs, and approval queues that stretched into months.
The potential of M-Pesa is staggering — over 51 million active users, billions of shillings flowing daily, a mobile money system the rest of the world studies. Yet the developer experience to tap into it had not kept pace.
We built Palpluss so that what once took a sprint now takes an afternoon. We handle Daraja, the credentials, the retries, the callbacks — you write business logic.
Values
What we stand for
Developer First
Every decision starts with one question: does this make the developer's life better? Features, docs, error messages — all of it.
Radical Transparency
Fees, uptime, incidents — you see everything. No surprises, no fine print, no buried clauses.
African Context
We build for Kenyan networks, regulations, and users. Not as an afterthought — as the default assumption.
Reliability over Features
A payment that fails is worse than a missing feature. We obsess over uptime, retries, and consistency.
Where We Are
Nairobi — the Silicon Savannah.
We operate out of Nairobi, Kenya — one of Africa's most vibrant tech ecosystems. From here we serve developers and businesses building on M-Pesa across Kenya and the region. The problems we solve are real because we live them.