Belgium software company Odoo has picked Nairobi as its African headquarters.
“It was very important for us to open this new office and 2022 was the year to do it,”
“We wanted to be closer to our customers and address them locally, with local talents, which is something we cannot achieve from afar,” Odoo South Africa CEO & Founder Fabien Pinckaers said.
The firm has employed 30 people locally, yet to add 50 more in a year’s time at their offices at Chiromo Lane, Westlands.
Odoo offers business solutions such as ecommerce, point of sale, accounting, and inventory for businesses.
“Digitization cannot be ignored anymore. Today an SME in Nairobi or Abidjan faces the same challenges as one in Sydney, Madrid, or Mexico in terms of efficiency gains. We want to equip these SMEs with a modern, fully integrated suite of business applications that can address their needs at a reasonable cost and boost their competitiveness,” Odoo KE LTD director Patrick Lukusa said.
Odoo, addressing the Kenyan and African market in general, has introduced such features as new eCommerce acquirer accepting payments methods such as credit cards, debit cards, mobile money (Mpesa, Airtel, MTN, etc) throughout Africa, the Kenyan Payroll, and the KRA TIMS integration (yet to come).
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