DuesFam
Smart dues and contribution management for groups, families and associations — every cedi accounted for, transparent by default.
What DuesFam does today.
Group money disappears into opacity.
Across Ghana and the diaspora, family unions, churches, susu circles and community associations collect dues every month — and track them in exercise books, WhatsApp threads and one overworked treasurer's memory. Nobody can say, at any moment, exactly who has paid and who hasn't.
The result is quiet friction: disputes over months already paid, embarrassment when arrears are read out, and treasurers burning out. Existing tools assume card payments and corporate structures — not cash, mobile money and trust-based community groups.
What we learned talking to treasurers.
- The single most-wanted thing was a year view: every member, every month, paid or not, on one screen.
- Records lived in the treasurer's head or an exercise book — when they travelled, collections stalled.
- Members wanted proof of their own record — and groups wanted transparency without public shaming.
- Anything that ignored WhatsApp or demanded card-only payments was dead on arrival.
From exercise book to ledger.
Field interviews
Sitting with treasurers of family unions and church groups to map how dues really move — cash at meetings, momo transfers, promises.
Scope & priority
Scheduling and payment tracking prioritized as the wedge — the two workflows causing daily pain, before anything else.
Low-bandwidth first
Every screen designed to load fast on 3G and work offline-first for attendance marking.
React + Node
A responsive web app with a PostgreSQL backend, built to run comfortably on a mid-range Android phone.
In the field
Real tutors using the beta with their actual students — bugs and workflow gaps surfaced from real use, not test data.
One ledger the whole group can trust.
DuesFam replaces the exercise-book-and-memory stack with a single ledger built around four core workflows.
Where it stands today.
DuesFam is live, with real groups using it to track dues and contributions month by month. Full production metrics will be published here as usage data accumulates.
Usage and retention figures are being collected in production and will be added once we have a full quarter of data.
What's next.
- Now: Live in production — refining the tracker and payment logging from real group feedback.
- Next: Member self-service view — every member checks their own record and receipts.
- Later: Direct mobile-money collection — dues paid inside DuesFam, reconciled automatically.
Build log.
Teams & exports
Role-based team access, Excel/CSV exports and WhatsApp-ready summaries.
Members & payments
Member profiles, payment logging and running totals per month and per member.
The yearly tracker
First working version — the 12-month paid/unpaid grid that replaced the exercise book.
Building something similar?
We take on a limited number of product builds each quarter.