Case Study: Nomanini achieves high availability and faster deployments with Google Cloud Platform

Nomanini Modernizing informal markets

Nomanini, a Cape Town–based payments platform, equips informal, cash‑based retailers across Africa with handheld prepaid vending terminals and a cloud transactional backbone to sell airtime, electricity and insurance. Serving over 1,000 terminals in countries like Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa and processing about one million transactions per month, the company faced the challenge of delivering highly reliable, scalable services and fast, continuous software updates for thin‑margin vendors in remote areas.

By running its platform on Google Cloud Platform (App Engine, Cloud Datastore, BigQuery, Prediction API and Cloud Monitoring), Nomanini eliminated infrastructure management, gained high availability for remote points‑of‑sale, and automated one‑click deployments that support 6–10 daily updates. The result: a 15–20% developer productivity boost (equivalent to one full‑time role), proactive monitoring, improved sales forecasting and stock management via BigQuery, and a dependable, scalable foundation for rapid expansion.

Nomanini

Vahid Monadjem

CEO, Nomanini