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STS prepaid and postpaid water — vended in seconds via M-Pesa, audited per drop.
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Now serving 14,000+ units across Kenya
Collect rent and bill water — automatically, on M-Pesa.
Mali Smart is the operating system for Kenyan rentals — prepaid smart water, rent collection, WiFi billing, and maintenance in one platform. Built in Nairobi for landlords, estates, and agencies.
4.9 / 5 from 240+ Kenyan property teams
Built for Kenyan landlords, estates, and agencies · M-Pesa native · STS prepaid water · LONGi integration
The reality of running property in Kenya
Your portfolio is growing. Your tooling hasn't.
Most agencies and landlords still operate on a stack glued together with M-Pesa SMS, paper meters, and goodwill. It costs you money every month — and it doesn't scale.
Manual billing wastes hours
Caretakers chase readings, agents reconcile M-Pesa screenshots, and tenants dispute every invoice.
Endless utility disputes
Without trusted meter data, every water bill becomes an argument that drags into next month.
Maintenance falls through cracks
Tickets live in WhatsApp groups, callouts go missing, and small leaks become expensive repairs.
Disconnected tools
Property logs in Excel, payments on a phone, WiFi on a separate router — nothing talks to anything.
How it works
From onboarding to payout — live in a week.
No migration project and no IT team. Bring your buildings on, switch on automation, and let rent and water settle to M-Pesa on their own.
1
Onboard your portfolio
Add buildings, units, tenants, and leases in minutes — or import a spreadsheet. Assign STS water meters and set rent in one pass.
2
Automate rent, water & WiFi
Tenants pay rent and buy prepaid water on M-Pesa from the app. Invoices, receipts, reminders, and leak alerts run on their own.
3
Get paid and stay in control
Every shilling reconciles to a live ledger and scheduled payouts hit landlords' M-Pesa. Watch cash flow, arrears, and occupancy at a glance.
What you get out of it
Get paid faster
Automated M-Pesa collection and reminders end the monthly chase — rent lands days sooner.
Stop revenue leaks
Prepaid STS metering replaces estimated bills and quietly lost water with billing you can audit per litre.
One source of truth
Buildings, tenants, leases, payments, and maintenance live in one place — no spreadsheets, no WhatsApp reconciliations.
Trusted by property teams across Kenya
Karen Properties
Tatu Estates
Riverside Mews
Westpark Holdings
Ngong Heights
Lavington Co.
One platform · seven workflows
Every operation your property runs on.
From the moment a tenant moves in to the day a landlord cashes out, Mali Smart replaces every spreadsheet, group chat, and walk-in collection.
Property Management
Buildings, units, tenants, and leases unified in one operational source of truth.
Tenant App
An installable PWA where residents pay rent, buy water, and report issues.
Maintenance
Tickets, dispatches, SLAs, and vendor invoices — without leaving the platform.
Payments & Payouts
M-Pesa Daraja, Paystack, and scheduled landlord payouts with full audit trail.
WiFi Billing
Sell internet packages per unit, captive-portal ready, reconciles automatically.
Analytics
Live cash flow, vending volumes, occupancy, and per-building P&L.
Smart water metering
Bill by the litre. Trust the data.
Every meter on Mali Smart is connected. Tenants buy water via M-Pesa and credits land instantly. Landlords get a single statement at the end of the month — and no more disputes.
Prepaid & postpaid
Run one block prepaid and another postpaid — switch a tenant in one click without losing history.
LONGi & STS native
Onboard STS-compliant LONGi meters directly. Tokens are vended through certified channels.
Automated vending
M-Pesa pays. The platform vends. The tenant’s meter unlocks. All under 4 seconds.
Real-time monitoring
Leak detection, abnormal usage alerts, and tamper events stream straight to operators.
STS DLMS-compliantTamper-event loggingPer-unit reconciliation
Live · Karen Springs, House 14B
Tenant experience
The app residents actually want to use.
Mali Smart ships an installable progressive web app. No Play Store hurdles, no 80 MB downloads. Tenants get rent, water, WiFi, and maintenance in one place — branded for your estate.
- Pay rent on M-PesaTap once. Get a digital receipt. Co-tenants split rent without screenshots.
- Buy water in secondsSTK push, token vended, meter unlocks. No more dry taps at midnight.
- Top up WiFiBuy a daily, weekly, or monthly plan — bandwidth provisions automatically.
- Report maintenancePhoto, location, category. Watch the ticket move from open to resolved.
Works offline · installs in 3 seconds
For agencies, estates & landlords
Run a portfolio. Not a fire department.
Property managers running 10 to 10,000 units use Mali Smart to collect rent, vend water, dispatch maintenance, and pay landlords — without growing the back-office.
Multi-building portfolios
Manage Karen, Kilimani, and Kileleshwa from a single dashboard. Every building is its own ledger, every tenant tagged to a unit.
- Unlimited buildings & units
- Role-based staff access
- Owner vs. agency views
Automated landlord payouts
Configure payout day, fees, and split rules once. The platform settles to landlord M-Pesa or bank — every cycle, every time.
- Scheduled M-Pesa B2C
- Per-landlord statements
- Reconciled to the shilling
Tenant lifecycle
Onboard, lease, bill, renew, and offboard with full audit trail. No more lost deposit ledgers or missing handover sheets.
- Digital lease handoff
- Deposits & arrears tracked
- Move-out reconciliations
Operational reporting
Board-ready PDF reports on demand. P&L per building, vending volumes, ticket SLAs, and arrears aging — at month-end or anytime.
- Per-building P&L
- Arrears aging exports
- Vendor performance
On Mali Smart today
Real buildings. Real tenants. Live data.
From single landlords with one block to estates managing hundreds of units, Mali Smart runs the day-to-day of modern Kenyan housing.
Buildings live
320+ & counting
LiveKaren Springs
96 units · Karen, Nairobi
LiveRiverside Mews
72 units · Westlands, Nairobi
LiveTatu Heights
120 units · Ruiru
LiveLavington Court
48 units · Lavington, Nairobi
Infrastructure-grade by design
Trusted with the rent. And the water.
Built on Supabase and the M-Pesa Daraja stack, audited monthly, and hardened for African network conditions.
Platform uptime
0.00%
Rolling 90-day SLA
Buildings live
0+
Nairobi, Kiambu, Mombasa, Kisumu
Smart meters
0+
STS prepaid · LONGi certified
Payments cleared
KSh 0M
Year-to-date, M-Pesa + bank
SOC-2 ready architectureEnd-to-end RLSM-Pesa Daraja certified flowsSTS DLMS compliant
Loved by Kenyan property teams
The operators, landlords, and residents who switched — aren't going back.
“We retired four spreadsheets in the first week. Rent settles to our M-Pesa by 10am every payout day — without anyone calling tenants.”
Wanjiru Mwaura
Operations Lead · Karen Properties
“Water disputes basically disappeared. Tenants buy tokens on their phone in seconds, and we get one clean statement at month-end. Worth every shilling.”
Brian Otieno
Landlord · Lavington
“I pay rent and buy water from one app while I commute. When my kitchen tap leaked, a plumber arrived in 90 minutes. This is how a house should run.”
Mukami Wairimu
Resident · Karen Springs
Ready when you are
Move your portfolio off spreadsheets.
Onto infrastructure.
Talk to our team about your buildings, meters, and tenants. We'll show you a tailored Mali Smart workspace in 30 minutes — and have your first property live within a week.
- 30-minute onboarding call
- First building live in under 7 days
- No setup fees · pay per active unit
What you'll see
- 1Your portfolio modeled in the platform
- 2Live meter vending on a sample unit
- 3M-Pesa rent flow end-to-end
- 4Pricing for your unit count