Skip to main content
Nyota Imara is a B2B API platform built specifically for Kenyan businesses. This page introduces what Nyota Imara does, the key capabilities available to your business, and how to get started with the platform.

What Nyota Imara does

Nyota Imara gives your business a single REST API to handle the infrastructure that every Kenyan B2B company needs: verifying the identities of users and businesses, managing your team’s access, collecting payments through card and M-Pesa, running a commerce storefront, and dispatching orders for last-mile delivery — all without stitching together separate vendors. Every API resource lives under https://api.nyotaimara.com/v1. You authenticate with a JWT issued after sign-in at accounts.nyotaimara.com, and you identify your organization context on scoped endpoints with the X-Organization-Id header.

Key capabilities

Organizations & teams

Create an organization, invite team members, and assign roles with granular permissions. Owner, admin, billing, and member roles map directly onto what each person can do in your workspace.

Identity verification (KYC/KYB)

Verify individual users with government-issued ID documents (KYC) and verify your business entity with registration certificates and director IDs (KYB). Verification status is reflected in real time across your organization.

Billing & payments

Accept Paystack card payments and M-Pesa STK pushes. Save reusable payment methods, track transaction history, and manage subscription plans — all in KES.

Commerce & orders

Create a branded storefront, manage product inventory across multiple warehouse locations, and process orders through a full lifecycle from draft to delivered. Multi-vendor marketplaces with commission splits are supported out of the box.

Last-mile logistics

Get live delivery fee estimates and dispatch orders to couriers through Uber Direct. Track each delivery from pickup to doorstep, with live tracking URLs you can share directly with your customers.

Notifications & SMS

Send in-app notifications and transactional SMS messages to your customers. Manage custom alphanumeric sender IDs and monitor delivery status through a full audit log.

Who Nyota Imara is for

Nyota Imara is built for Kenyan B2B businesses that need production-ready infrastructure without building it from scratch. It is a good fit if you are:
  • A SaaS company that needs to verify user and business identities before granting access
  • An e-commerce or marketplace business that needs payments, inventory management, and delivery in one place
  • A business adding a self-serve portal where customers manage their own profiles, subscriptions, and orders
  • A platform that resells to sub-tenants and needs per-organization billing and access control

Get started

Quickstart

Create your account, sign in, and make your first authenticated API call in under five minutes.

Authentication

Learn how to pass your Bearer token and handle common authorization errors.