The platform

Everything a construction company needs to run site payments.

mjengoPay is one system for the money side of a Kenyan construction site: who showed up, what they earned, paying them, and paying the suppliers who delivered — with an audit trail behind every shilling.

Payroll: pay the whole site in minutes

Construction workers in Kenya are rarely on a monthly salary. mjengoPay computes wages the way sites actually pay: daily rates, piecework, or visit-based pay, accrued automatically from verified attendance. When payday comes, finance reviews the run and pays every worker at once — hundreds of workers in minutes, straight to the phone they already have. Workers do not need a smartphone, an app, or a bank account.

• Bulk payouts to workers, suppliers, and contractors on the payment platforms they already use.
• Duplicate-payment protection built in — nobody can be paid twice for the same run.
• Approval before money moves: the site proposes, the office confirms.
• Full payment history per worker, per site, per payroll run.
• Statutory deductions supported where you need them.

Attendance: know who was on site before you pay

Wages start at the gate. Foremen and supervisors clock workers in and out on a phone, and mjengoPay can make sure attendance only counts when the right worker was genuinely on site — identity confirmed, presence confirmed. Ghost workers and buddy punching — the classic ways construction payrolls leak money — get caught before payroll, not after.

• Clock-in and clock-out run by the foreman or supervisor — workers need nothing.
• Verification that the worker recorded is the worker who actually showed up.
• Verification that attendance was recorded at the site, not from across town.
• Unusual attendance patterns surface to the office before they reach payroll.
• Live visibility from the office: headcount and accrued wages per site, in real time.

Read more in the guide: construction site attendance tracking in Kenya.

Materials: pay suppliers against deliveries, not promises

Materials are the other half of site spending. mjengoPay tracks purchase needs through to confirmed deliveries, and payments are tied to what actually arrived on site. Suppliers and contractors are paid the way they prefer, and releasing a payment always requires approval — nobody moves materials money alone.

• Materials tracking from request to order to confirmed delivery, per site.
• Suppliers paid on their platform of choice, from one controlled flow.
• Payment release requires explicit approval, separate from whoever proposed it.
• Supplier statements for clean reconciliation.

Read more: paying construction materials suppliers without leakage.

Financial controls: built for people who answer for the budget

• Project wallets — funds isolated per site, so one project can't quietly drain another.
• Permanent audit trail — every payment request, approval, and change is recorded for good.
• Role-based access — admins, finance, managers, supervisors, and foremen each see and do only what their role allows.
• Multi-level approvals — configurable sign-off for large transfers.
• Validated recipients — payee identities are checked before money moves.

Who uses mjengoPay

General contractors, subcontractors, and property developers in Kenya — from a single residential mjengo to multi-site portfolios. The office works from a desktop dashboard; site teams work from the phones they already carry.

Pricing

Pay per use. No subscriptions, no tiers, no per-seat licences — you only pay for what you use. Request a demo for current rates.