Payouts and expenditure

Pay volunteers and agents by M-PESA with two-person approval, and track spending against budget.

Payouts to volunteers and agents#

Open Finance › Payouts to pay people by M-PESA without seeing their numbers.

1. Create a batch: pick people from your contacts and set each amount.
2. Submit it for approval. A different person must approve the batch (above any threshold your organisation sets).
3. The approver chooses Approve and send or Reject with a reason.
4. Sauti sends each payment and records the M-PESA receipt.

The batch shows a reconciliation: paid, failed and outstanding amounts. Failed lines show the attempts made. Numbers stay sealed; you see only masked references and receipts.

Election-day allowances can be paid automatically after a verified check-in and submitted results. See Incidents, turnout and allowances.

Budget and expenditure#

Open Finance › Expenditure to plan and track spending.

1. Add budget lines with a name, category and budget amount.
2. Record an expense: what it was for, who was paid, the amount, the date and the budget line.
3. A second person approves each expense.

The Budget vs spend view shows each line's use and highlights lines that are over budget, plus spending not tied to any line. Confirmed M-PESA payouts post here automatically.

Keep supporting documents for every expense. Campaign finance law may require you to account for them.