A lot of the population in Africa still do not have bank accounts but still rely on the cooperative for their savings.
In Uganda, only about 20% of people have bank accounts. But more than 65% of their population belongs to one cooperative or the other While some other African countries are having over 16milion belong cooperatives this goes to speak of a large number of still unbanked populations in Africa.
Most cooperatives run their day to activities manually making managing its members tedious and tiring, considering the importance of the cooperative society.
asusu is helping to digitize farmer cooperative in Nigeria enabling them to benefit from economies of scale to lower their costs of acquiring inputs or hiring services such as storage and transport providing them with the much need information to be able to make informed decisions.
Benefits of digitizing your cooperatives
Digitalization presents five major operational benefits for cooperatives:

• Ease of operation
• Reduced work-day
• Improved accuracy/fewer errors
• Increased revenues/collection
• Reduced cost of delivering services
• Improved documentation and reporting

Digitizing your cooperative will free up operators of the cooperatives and give them the opportunity to focus their efforts on important matters, such as marketing, and to improve productivity for members. They also offer user’s better prospects of securing bank loans and contracts from big aggregators since cooperatives using digital systems can easily show that they are reliable and profitable.

Asusu will help you transfer existing data from other electronic forms or paper-based formats. And also set up and test the system. Most importantly we will train you’re your cooperative staff on how to manage the system.
Many cooperatives continue to walk in darkness as to digitizing their process and continue to use paper-based data management systems for a number of reasons. These include a lack of awareness of existing digital solutions, incapacity to use technology, digital illiteracy, weak enabling environments, lack of capital, and social and cultural opposition to new technologies.
But the testimonials from cooperatives who have embraced this system will clearly let you know that this is the right decision for every cooperative to take.
Asusu also helps you grow your cooperation by helping you get more members to your cooperative and also help your members get access to loans.
Don’t wait any longer to get on the asusu platform for cooperation and allow the technology to do all the cumbersome work of managing a cooperative.