The story
Somewhere right now, a shopper buys electronics from one diaspora store, and never learns the beauty salon and the grill two doors down even exist.
Each of those businesses runs alone: a separate site, a separate login, a separate checkout, separate marketing, all paid for and run solo. The customer juggles three of everything, and three small businesses that could lift each other up stay invisible to one another.
AkongNe changes that. A business signs up and is running the same day: its own branded storefront, a full back office for its trade, its own AI assistant named after the owner, a printable QR poster, and branded receipts. Then the part no one else does, it joins a marketplace. A shopper who comes for one store discovers the others, learns one checkout, and trusts the whole market. The businesses grow because they grow together, not at each other's expense.
The marketplace
Ready-made templates for almost any trade, one rail.
AkongNe is a Diaspora Commerce OS, not a single store builder. It is a shared marketplace where independent diaspora businesses keep their own storefront and a full back office, and still complement each other, so a customer discovers the whole market in one visit. Each trade starts from a ready-made template you tailor, nothing is hardcoded.
| Template | What it is | What it gives the business and the shopper |
|---|---|---|
| Retail goods | Branded retail storefronts | Order online, track status, pay before or on arrival, collect with a pickup PIN |
| Wholesale / reseller | Bulk and reseller storefronts | Buy in volume from a branded store, on the same checkout |
| Food | Order-ahead pickup storefronts | Order ahead, pay before or on arrival, collect with a pickup PIN |
| Restaurants and bars | Full-service hospitality | Menu, dine-in tables, kitchen display, reservations verified by PIN, open bar tabs |
| Beauty and salon | Bookings storefronts | Browse services, book a slot, pay before or on arrival |
| Fashion and tailoring | Custom commissions | Request a custom piece, agree the brief, track the commission to delivery |
| Auto care | Work orders and inspections | Open a work order, follow the inspection, approve and pay |
| Freight and cargo | Three-party shipments | Book door-to-door, track containers and sailings, follow status end to end |
| Real estate | Full property manager plus public stays | Units, leases, rent invoices, maintenance, owner reports, plus book a public stay |
| Training | Courses and enrollments | Enroll in a course, mark attendance, follow progress |
| Photography | Proofing galleries and packages | Pick a package, review a proofing gallery, approve favourites |
| Wuna Market | Community marketplace | List anything, best-offer, buy-now, or bid in live auctions, with escrow held until delivery |
Branded storefronts
A real store, never a template.
Your name, your look
Every business runs as its own branded storefront with its own name, colours, and products. It feels like the store built it, not a row on someone else's grid.
Order, pickup, and pay your way
Customers order online, watch the status, pay before or on arrival by CashApp, Zelle, or cash, and collect with a pickup PIN. No guessing whether an order landed or is ready.
A QR poster and branded receipts
Each store gets a printable QR poster for the counter and the window, and every receipt carries the store's name, so walk-ins and online buyers meet the same brand.
In-app chat
Buyers and stores talk inside the app, so a question about an order, a price, or a pickup never gets lost in a separate inbox.
Wuna Market
The community marketplace, done right.
List anything
Anyone lists an item with photos and a price, and the whole community can search and watchlist it. The market is the people, not just the stores.
Best-offer, buy-now, or auction
Sell at a fixed price, take best offers, or run a live auction with proxy max-bids that bid on a buyer's behalf up to their limit.
Anti-snipe and proxy bids
Last-second bids extend the auction so it stays fair, and proxy max-bids mean a buyer sets their ceiling once and the system bids for them.
Escrow until delivery
Payment is held in escrow and released only when the item is delivered, so both sides trade with confidence.
Real estate
A full property manager, plus public stays.
AkongNe brings real estate onto the same rail with a complete property manager: units, leases, rent invoices, maintenance requests, and owner reports, all in one place. A landlord can run a whole portfolio from a phone, and the same listing can also be opened as a public stay for short-term guests to book directly.
Multi-branch and business intelligence
Run each branch, see them as one, know your cash cow.
Manage every branch separately and still see them consolidated in one view. The business intelligence names the cash cow for you, explains why one branch outperforms another, and tells you what to fix, so the numbers turn into decisions instead of spreadsheets.
Fair pay
Real hours in, fair pay out.
Time and attendance is built in. Staff clock in inside a geofence, the app counts the real hours worked, and those verified hours roll straight into payroll. No padded timesheets, no guesswork, fair pay for the work actually done.
The trust ladder
Listed, then verified, then trusted.
Every business climbs the same ladder: first listed, then verified, then trusted. Shoppers can see how far a store has come, so confidence is earned in the open and the whole market gets safer to buy from.
The AI
Two tiers of advanced AI, each in their lane.
The marketplace assistant
A marketplace-wide assistant knows the whole app and every business in it, so a shopper can ask for anything and be pointed to the right store across the entire market.
A per-store assistant
Each store has its own assistant named after the owner, trained on that store's products and voice, so it answers like the shop itself.
Helps shoppers and owners alike
Shoppers get pointed to the right product, and owners get a helper that already knows their catalogue, so day to day work gets lighter.
Grounded in the real business
Each assistant answers from its own store and the live marketplace, not guesswork, so shoppers get answers they can act on.
The automation engine
Every event can fire a message or a workflow.
An events bus sits under the whole marketplace, and owners write their own rules on top of it. A bid, an outbid, a new inquiry, an order ready for pickup, any event can fire an owner-configurable SMS or in-app message, or kick off a workflow. The messaging is A2P-10DLC compliant, so stores reach customers the right way, automatically, instead of typing the same update by hand all day.
Built right
Yours, everywhere, and trusted.
- Four languages, English, French, Pidgin, and Spanish, so the marketplace meets the diaspora in its own tongue.
- Works on any phone, installs like an app, so stores and shoppers do not need a laptop to take part.
- Multi-tenant white-label, each store keeps its own branding, products, AI assistant, QR poster, and branded receipts.
- Nothing hardcoded, every price, policy, cadence, and piece of copy is owner-editable in the app.
- Pay your way, CashApp, Zelle, cash, and a pay-on-arrival PIN, with pay-before or pay-on-arrival and distance-based delivery or pickup.
- Trust built in, a listed to verified to trusted ladder, escrow held until delivery on the community marketplace, plus in-app chat between buyer and store.
- Fair pay and clear numbers, geofenced time and attendance that feeds payroll, and multi-branch business intelligence that names your cash cow.
- A2P-10DLC compliant automation, an events bus and owner-configurable rules that send the right message at the right moment.
- Built by TaTech, on a shared platform with database-enforced row-level security, so each store sees only what it should.
Get started.
Open a branded storefront, join the marketplace, and grow with the stores around you.