Built for the merchant who's ready to look the part
Opening a store online shouldn't mean choosing between cheap and generic or expensive and slow. So we built the storefront we wished we had when we were selling out of a WhatsApp catalog.
A market stall, a broken checkout and a better idea
Most independent merchants across Africa start selling long before they have a website: a phone number, a social media page, a bit of word of mouth. That works until it doesn't. Orders get lost in DMs, there's no real catalog to send people to, and every serious customer eventually asks "do you have a website?"
The tools that answered that question were built for someone else: generic templates, awkward checkout, no real support for how people actually pay and ship here. Kiosc started as a weekend build to solve one seller's problem. It didn't stay small for long.
One focus: keep it simple
The themes are genuinely premium. The checkout is yours: your own payment account, with money settling straight to you. Going live takes minutes, not weeks.
We still measure success the way we did on day one: can a merchant go from nothing to open for business without calling anyone for help?
The principles behind every decision
Look like you hired a designer
Every theme gets the same care, top to bottom. None of them is the cheap one.
Your money is your money
You connect your own payment account. Customer payments settle straight to you.
Software should get out of the way
Pick a theme, add products, connect a domain. A working store, not a project.
“I built Kiosc after watching too many good sellers lose sales to broken checkout links and websites they couldn't afford to build. Every decision here starts from that.”
Ugochukwu Raymond
Founder