Pursuing authorisation · launching Q3 2026 · #12,438 in line
For the diaspora

Save together. Build credit. Send money home.

SOHANA brings your savings circle online — with the NCS credit score that opens doors banks can't.

Wire transfers

Send money home. Not fees.

Transfer to Yaoundé, Lagos, Accra, or Kigali at 0.7% — not the 8–12% you're used to paying. Your family gets more. You keep more.

Savings goals

Save up for that dream vacation.

Set a savings goal inside your circle. Contribute every week. Watch the pot grow. Your group keeps you accountable — so you actually get there.

Fundraising

Give for the right cause. The right people.

Every campaign on Sohana is verified by our team before it goes live. You know exactly who you're giving to and exactly where the money lands.

Njangi · Tontine · Susu

Your circle. Your payout. Your turn.

The savings tradition your community has practised for generations — now online, multi-currency, and secured by the credit score that makes the rest of your financial life possible.

NCS Credit Score

Build credit banks can finally see.

No loan history? No problem. The NCS reads whether you keep your word inside your community. That's a record banks across Africa will soon recognise.

Parents & students

Pay your child's tuition in Paris from Douala.

Send directly to their Hanatag. Money arrives in seconds, in euros, with a receipt. No SWIFT code. No bank visit. No "is it there yet?" phone call.

Community pools

Build something together.

Your alumni association, church, or work team already pools money. Give it a proper digital treasury — with multi-admin approval and a permanent audit trail.

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12,438+ already in line
from 14 countries · France, UK, Canada, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda
AwardSOHANA wins TEF 2026 — Selected among winning projects at the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Award, Cohort 2026.
BetaQ3 2026 launch — Waitlist members get priority Hanatag handles and free outbound transfers for the first 12 months.
ResearchGold standard exchange live — Sohana Labs launches the first intra-African currency model anchored to gold, not the dollar.
Pilot+13.2% completion rate — Our closed pilot across France and Cameroon shows SOHANA circles outperform informal groups significantly.
Platform8 currencies now live — EUR, GBP, USD, CAD, XAF, GHC, NGN, ZAR — send money across corridors in seconds via Hanatag.
Sanu yelo,
Aïcha M.
Total balance · EUR
€ 4,820.50
+€ 240 this week · @aicha.han
My circles3 active
Maman's Tontine
12 members · monthly · €200
YOU R.5
5 of 12 paid out€2,400 next
Yaoundé Sisters
8 members · weekly · 50,000 XAF
R.2
2 of 8 paid out€610 next
Working towards authorisation with
ACPR · FRANCE FCA · UK FINTRAC · CA BEAC · CEMAC Mastercard VISA DIRECT
01 · Everything your savings circle needs

The tontine your aunties run, with the rails of a modern bank.

Run weekly, biweekly or monthly circles in any of eight currencies. Transparent contributions, automated payouts, and full organiser controls — without a WhatsApp ledger in sight.

A · ORGANISER

Organiser controls, not group-chat chaos

Invite members by Hanatag, set the contribution rules, freeze a defaulter, rotate the payout slot — Sohana enforces what your circle agreed at the start.

B · TRANSPARENT FUNDS

Funds will be held in segregated escrow

At launch, every contribution will sit in a segregated, ringfenced account at a licensed partner institution. Members see balances live; payouts auto-release on schedule with full audit trail. Currently in beta — no real funds are held.

C · FLEXIBLE

Weekly, biweekly, monthly

Run circles however your community runs them. 3 to 50 members. €20 to €5,000 contributions.

D · RECOVERY

Missed-contribution buffer

Optional shared buffer pool covers a missed round so payouts never stall. Repaid from the member's next contribution, automatically.

E · MULTI-CIRCLE

Run as many as you want

Family savings, work chama, holiday fund, baby fund. Each circle has its own rules, members and currency.

02 · Njangi Credit Score

A credit score built from how you save, not whether a bank let you borrow.

NCS is a 300–850 behavioural score derived from your real contribution history across Sohana circles. Drag the factors to see how each one moves the dial — and where you'd start.

Built from on-time contributions
Every round you complete is a positive datapoint, weighted by tenure and circle size.
Portable across borders
Use your NCS to access partner credit products in France, UK, Canada and partner African markets.
You see the math
No black box. Every factor and weight is visible — drag the sliders, watch the score.
300 850
721 / 850
● Reliable
03 · Try the math

See what your savings circle could do.

Pick the size, the contribution and the cadence. Sohana shows you the payout in any of our eight supported currencies — and where you'd land in the rotation.

Currency
Circle members12
Contribution per round€200
Frequency
Payout schedule
Round 1 ● Your payout · Round 5 Round 12
Your payout
2,400
on round 5 of 12, monthly.
€28,800
Total cycle pool
12 months
Cycle length
0%
Interest paid
Start a circle or join an existing one in your community
04 · Stories

What your community is actually saving for.

Photo: Etty Fidele · Unsplash
"My njangi paid for my mother's surgery in Bamenda. I want my daughter to grow up knowing this is how we take care of each other."
Aïcha M.Brussels → YaoundéBE · CM
Photo: Christina @ wocintechchat · Unsplash
"We're 14 women, all nurses. Every Friday we contribute, every fortnight someone collects. With Sohana the ledger finally stopped causing fights."
Adwoa B.London → AccraUK · GH
Photo: Christina @ wocintechchat · Unsplash
"I run six tandas at once for friends back home. Sohana let me organise without spreadsheets and without sending money through three banks."
Fatou D.Montréal → AbidjanCA · CI
Pilot data · 2,400 circles, Q1 2026

13.2% completion-rate uplift across all Sohana circles vs. informal baseline.

From our closed pilot across France and Cameroon. Numbers we'll keep publishing as we scale.

+13.2%
Completion rate uplift
96.4%
On-time contributions
€1.8M
Saved by pilot members
0
Defaults absorbed by buffer
05 · Get started

Up and saving in three steps.

01

Claim your Hanatag

Pick a handle like @aicha.han. It travels with you across all eight currencies — your account number, simplified.

02

Spin up a circle (or join one)

Invite by Hanatag, phone or email. Set members, contribution, frequency, payout order. Or accept an invite from your aunty.

03

Save, payout, build NCS

Funds release on schedule. Every on-time round builds your Njangi Credit Score and unlocks credit products.

06 · Sohana on iOS & Android

Built for the phone in your pocket.

Send to a Hanatag in seconds. Run the family tontine on the bus. Track your NCS climb. We start invite-only on iOS and Android in Q3 2026.

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Good morning,
Kwame A.
NCS Score
721
Reliable · +8 this week
Recent activity
London Chama
PAID ✓
8 of 12 rounds£1,600 next

Be first when we launch.

Early users get priority Hanatag handles, founder-circle status, and free outbound transfers for the first 12 months.

● 12,438 in line ● 14 countries ● Q3 2026 launch