01Built for how Ugandans pay online
Card payments alone leave a large share of Ugandan buyers without a way to check out. We connect WordPress and WooCommerce to gateways that collect Ugandan shillings through MTN Mobile Money and Airtel Money, with cards alongside. Flutterwave sends a prompt to the customer's handset to approve, and Pesapal offers an official WooCommerce plugin covering both networks plus Visa and Mastercard. We set up the order statuses, confirmation emails and receipts so your team can reconcile payments without chasing screenshots on WhatsApp.
02School websites and learning platforms
Searches for school websites in Uganda are common, and for good reason: parents want admissions information, term dates and fee guidance in one place they can open on a phone. Our team built the virtual learning environment for Alvina Schools in Nigeria, giving pupils and teachers lessons, assignments and resources behind a login. For Ugandan primary and secondary schools, colleges and training providers we can take the same approach: a clear public site for families, and where it is needed, a learning area with courses, quizzes, certificates and fee payment.
03Data protection that stands up to the PDPO
Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019 applies to anyone collecting personal data through a website, from a contact form to a pupil application. Organisations are expected to register with the Personal Data Protection Office, which sits under NITA-U, and to report breaches to it immediately. We cannot register on your behalf, but we build sites that make compliance practical: consent wording on forms, a clear privacy notice, limited data collection, secure storage, and a record of where submissions go.
04Pages that respect the cost of data
Since 2021 Uganda has charged a 12% excise duty on internet data and airtime, and most people browse on prepaid bundles. A heavy homepage with autoplay video costs your visitors real money before they have read a word. We design mobile-first, compress images properly, avoid page builders that load scripts nobody needs, and test on mid-range Android phones over slower connections. The result is a site that opens quickly in Gulu as well as in Kampala.
05Working with a team two hours behind you
Uganda runs on East Africa Time, UTC+3, which puts Kampala two hours ahead of our team in Lagos. In practice that gives a long shared working day, so we can hold morning calls at a comfortable hour for both sides and reply to requests the same day. Projects run through a shared board, written updates and recorded walkthroughs, so nobody needs to travel for a site to move forward.
06What a project with us looks like
Every engagement starts with a short discovery call and a written scope covering pages, features, integrations and responsibilities. Strategy and design work starts from $1,500 per project and custom development from $5,000. We quote in US dollars, then agree milestones so you are never paying for work you have not seen. After launch you can keep us on for hosting, maintenance and security, or take the site in-house with documentation and training.
