Towards automated
fare collection.
Passengers pay their fare and see it counted. Crews see who has paid at a glance, with a record of every trip. It works on the phones and the M-Pesa payments matatus already use — no new hardware.
Today it helps the crew. Over time, it does the collecting.
Right now a passenger pays and shows their phone; the crew checks it by eye. Botride replaces the squinting with a clear, shared view of who has paid — and builds, step by step, towards fare collection that runs on its own.
See who has paid
A live, ordered list of paid fares for the trip — by name and amount. No more reading messages off a passenger's phone.
The right fare, every leg
Fares follow the route. Each fare is counted once and can't be quietly reused on the next leg.
A record you can trust
Every trip leaves a clean record of what was collected — for the crew, the owner, and the SACCO.
No new hardware
It runs on the crew's own phone and the vehicle's own connection. Nothing to fit in the vehicle.
Works with M-Pesa
Passengers keep paying the way they already do. Botride organises the payments around that — it doesn't replace them.
Built for the road
Designed to keep working through patchy signal and busy stages — the everyday reality of a matatu route.
Everyone on the trip.
Pay your fare and see it counted — no haggling, no showing your phone.
See who has paid at a glance, and spend the trip moving, not checking.
A trustworthy, per-trip record of fares collected across the fleet.
Run a matatu, a fleet, or a SACCO?
We're building this with operators on real routes. Tell us about your vehicles and we'll show you where it's headed.