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Cooperatives and producer groups

HR, payroll and records support for farmer cooperatives, producer groups and agro-processing societies.

Common HR challenges in this sector

Sound familiar?

  • A small paid team serving a large membership
  • Board, management and staff roles that need to be clear
  • Seasonal workers at collection and processing peaks
  • Funds, member payments and staff costs that must stay separate and auditable
  • Policies and records ready for audits and members meetings

How Nexalia Technologies supports this

Nexalia HCM keeps staff records and payroll with an audit trail, and Nexalia Expense records spending and casual payments with approvals.

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Nexalia HCM plans

A small monthly base plus a fee per employee. Payroll with Kenya statutory deductions starts in the Business plan. Start with a free 30-day pilot for your first 20 employees.

Starter

Small teams

KES 1,000 a month

plus KES 100 per employee

  • Employee records, leave and attendance
  • Performance goals and reviews
  • Self-service and basic reports
  • No payroll
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Business

Growing businesses

KES 1,500 a month

plus KES 200 per employee

  • Includes all Starter features, plus:
  • Payroll with Kenyan statutory deductions (PAYE, NSSF, SHIF, Housing Levy and HELB)
  • Payslips
  • Detailed payroll reports and exports
  • Shifts, overtime and advanced attendance
  • Configurable allowances and deductions
  • Expanded permissions and approval workflows

Enterprise

Larger and complex teams

From KES 5,000 a month

plus KES 450 per employee

  • Includes all Business features, plus:
  • Recruitment (ATS) and onboarding
  • Learning and training records
  • Advanced reporting and analytics
  • Multi-branch and multi-company management
  • Priority support and implementation assistance

Enterprise Plus

Custom

Quoted

custom annual contract

  • Everything in Enterprise, extended to fit your organisation:
  • AI assistant and API access
  • Custom workflows, compensation and succession planning
  • Custom modules, integrations and reports
  • Other agreed requirements, quoted according to scope

Upgrading keeps all your data. Moving to a higher plan switches on additional features on the same records, with no data migration.

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Starting prices in Kenya Shillings, excluding taxes, not a quotation. Setup, data migration and training are charged separately, from KES 5,000.

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Member, produce and inputs management system

Member records, produce intake and input sales for cooperatives, with an audit trail on every change. This is another way we serve cooperatives and producer groups, alongside Nexalia HR and payroll. It is built to order and scoped in writing, so we confirm exactly what you get before you commit.

Typical parts of the system

  • Member and shareholder records
  • Produce intake, grading and payments
  • Input shop and stock
  • Member credit and statements
  • Meetings, approvals and reports

Nexalia POS features that fit this sector

  • Input shop till with member credit accounts
  • Customer credit limits and statements
  • Batch and expiry tracking for inputs
  • Roles and access for clerks, stores and accountants
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Selling at the till

  • Fast sales screen with product search and barcode, QR or SKU scanning
  • Weighed and barcoded item pricing
  • Held (suspended) sales and split payments
  • Discounts with limits by role, and price override at the till
  • Returns, refunds and exchanges with numbered credit notes, and layaway
  • Open and close each till with a cash count, and an end-of-day Z-report
  • Branded receipts, with prices VAT-inclusive or VAT added at checkout

Products and inventory

  • Departments, categories and products, with size and colour variants
  • Bulk and tiered pricing, and seasonal promotions and markdowns
  • Barcodes and labels
  • Batch and expiry tracking, and serial numbers
  • Stock adjustments, transfers, stock counts and variance
  • Stock ledger, valuation, reorder levels and low-stock alerts
  • Dead, slow and fast-moving, overstock and understock reports
  • Multiple warehouses and branches

Purchasing and suppliers

  • Optional purchase requisitions
  • Purchase orders from draft to approval to receipt
  • Goods received posts to stock and payables
  • Purchase returns
  • Supplier invoices, payments, statements and aging
  • Supplier scorecard, spend and lead-time analytics

Customers

  • Customer records and walk-in customers
  • Loyalty points and store credit
  • Customer credit limits, invoices and statements
  • Corporate and contractor credit accounts
  • Customer segmentation and reports

Reports, people and control

  • Executive and inventory dashboards
  • Sales, profitability, stock and payables reports
  • Export to CSV or PDF
  • Staff roles: company admin, cashier, stock keeper, procurement officer and accountant
  • Multi-branch and multi-company support
  • Audit log of every change: who, what, when and why
  • Company branding, tax identity (PIN, VAT), printers and hardware

Ready-made business set-ups in the demo

  • Retail: supermarket, hardware, and fashion and boutique
  • Restaurant and cafe: open tables, take orders, kitchen tickets (KOT), recipes, tips and service charge
  • Pharmacy: dispense prescription medicines, controlled-drugs register, mandatory batch and expiry
  • Wholesale and distribution: delivery notes and dispatch, contractor credit accounts

Add-ons, quoted separately: M-Pesa STK Push payments, KRA eTIMS receipts and integration, and offline selling. Not yet available: the built-in accounting ledger. We confirm what is included in your written quotation.

Nexalia POS is in early access, so it has no published price yet. A working demo is available on request, and features may change before release.

Frequently asked questions

Can you help with policies and governance for the board and management?

Yes. Our consultancy and advisory teams help write staff policies, role descriptions and reporting lines that boards and members can follow.

Can you help us prepare for an audit?

Yes. Our Assurance and Risk team reviews records and controls so gaps are fixed before the auditor arrives.

Where do I start?

Take the free Business and People Systems Health Check or send us an enquiry. We reply within one working day and the first conversation is free.

Talk to us about Cooperatives and producer groups

We reply within one working day, and the first conversation is free.