Business Passport
Get verified. Get customers. Get suppliers. Get paid.
The Business Passport is a verified identity and profile for a merchant, an SME or a cooperative. It opens a digital storefront built on Africa.Inc’s Collective Markets Intelligence and the ODIN head agent, so that a business is verified once and is then discoverable, invoiceable and payable.
The passport and the storefront are in build. Collections are performed by a licensed partner in each market, and open market by market as a partner is named.
What the passport carries
- A verified business identity: the legal name, the registration and the person authorised to act, checked against the register that issued them.
- A public profile the business controls: what it sells, where it delivers, the terms it trades on.
- Selective disclosure: a counterpart is shown the claim it needs, not the file behind it.
- A consent record the business can revoke, and an audit trail of every disclosure made.
What the storefront does
Generate invoices
Issue an invoice against the verified identity, so the buyer can see who is billing and check it independently.
Make payment links
Turn an invoice into a link a customer can pay, with the total and the fee shown before confirmation.
Receive payments
Collections are performed by a licensed partner in the market — a bank, a payment service provider or a mobile money operator. Africa.Inc routes and reconciles; it never holds customer money.
Discover customers
Collective Markets Intelligence matches the profile against demand it can see, and states what the match is based on.
Discover suppliers
The same matching in reverse, over verified counterparts rather than open listings.
Work with ODIN
The head agent prepares quotes, chases receivables and assembles onboarding files, holding every external action for the merchant’s approval.
How a merchant opens one
Register
Give the business name, the market and a contact. The register is open now.
Verify
Confirm the business against the registry that issued its number, and the person authorised to act for it.
Publish the storefront
Set what the business sells, where it delivers and the terms it trades on.
Invoice and collect
Issue invoices and payment links; collections open in a market once a licensed partner is named there.
The Business Passport is an identity and commerce product. It is not a bank account, an e-money account or a credit facility, and Africa.Inc does not hold customer money at any point.