Damansah (Visit website)
Location:Côte d’Ivoire
Sector: Fintech

Running a business comes with lots of challenges and the joy of every business owner is to see their business booming. You definitely want your business to thrive and you would seek every possible means to achieve that. As an entrepreneur, you wear many caps. You are the CEO, marketing and sales manager, inventory manager, stock recorder, the list is endless. To run your business successfully, you need to delegate/outsource roles and focus on the aspect you’re good at. Or else, you won’t see progress in your business. With Damansah all-in-one platform that takes care of everything concerning your business, be rest assured of its success.
Damansah is a fintech company that provides entrepreneurs with services to manage their businesses for optimal growth. And for someone like me who needs a side hustle, the company has made income-earning easy without fretting. Their products; Smartshop and Waribon take care of each of these respectively.
The company was founded in 2018 by Claver Nambégué Coulibaly and Michael Prince Danho as a financial solution to entrepreneurs’ challenges in optimizing their businesses for growth.
Smartshop for Smart Entrepreneurs
Smartshop is a mobile app that allows you to get your product or service right in front of your audience. Damansah realized that the rate at which people shop online has really increased post Covid19. Hence, they came up with this solution. Not limited to that, with the app, you’re able to record cash transactions without the risk of forgetting. You can claim what your customers owe you.
After all sales, you can transfer your money collected on the application to a bank or mobile money account. Obviously, life is easier with Smartshop! Finally, the app allows you to monitor business performance. You’re able to evaluate the performance of your activity using the data recorded in the app. With this, you can have a clearer view of the growth or decline of your business. Damansah accurately gathers your information to provide you with the best result.
Create your Account
- Easy, peasy steps to create your account
- Download the application for free on your store (play store / AppStore)
- Enter your phone number, your information and generate your Damansah account to start working more efficiently.
- You can receive payment from abroad by sharing the payment link with your customers by SMS, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp or any other social network you use. You can also copy the payment link and select the medium by which to send it to your customer.
- Get to know how to run your business efficiently on Smartshop with this tutorial.
You can download the Damansah Smartshop app for free from the Google Play Store CI and iOS
Waribon, your profitable side hustle
For a person that needs additional income, Waribon is specially created for you. As a Waribon agent, all you need to do to keep earning is to carry out banking and mobile money transactions for your customers. It’s as simple as that.
Your journey to become a Waribon agent is easier with these steps:
- Inscription/Registration: Complete your registration from the website.
- Identification/Identification: You submit all your necessary legal documents.
- Traitement/Processing: A verification followed by an account creation is carried out.
- Start-up: Your equipment is made available to you to start. Now you can get back to business

How to Register
I’m actually lost, I thought I understood French but this is beyond me! Oh! Do you want to step out? This isn’t time to leave, we’re in this together. I got you! To use the platform, Waribon provides a form to get the details of your needs. After which, a representative gets back to you upon receiving your form.
Here are some of the questions you need to answer:
- Quel est votre nom complet/what is your full name
- Quel est votre numéro de téléphone?
- Avez-vous une activité commerciale principale?/do you have a main business?
- Etes-vous propriétaire de cette activité ?/Are you the owner of the business?
- To cut the long story short, kindly check the rest of the questions, fill and submit here
- For Frequently Asked Questions about Waribon,visit the website.
As a bank or fintech, you can partner with Waribon. By doing this you are able to:
Adopt community finance
Say YES to proximity by getting closer to your customer’s thanks to Waribon Agents.
Reduce your expansion costs
No more need for acquisition campaigns at exorbitant costs for a network of agents.
Get a wide distribution channel
Get a large network of agents ready to distribute your financial services offline or online.
Rounding Up
Damansah’s vision is to become a powerful tool for economic development and financial inclusion in Africa. This can be achieved by making use of the solution as stakeholders. We implore investors to look into this market.
Damansah Smartshop is available in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, however, you can make payment from anywhere in the world. Your products or service can get to your customers anywhere they are. While, Waribon currently operates in Côte d’ivoire.
Apart from being able to receive payments abroad, is it possible for entrepreneurs across Africa to subscribe to Damansah products? We hope Damansah Smartshop still serves stakeholders till the present as the latest review on the app was dated January 2021. For Damansah to have added the smart shop tutorial video on the website, does the app seem complicated to use? We look forward to your providing us with relevant information regarding the questions above.