PesewaPay Investment

Put money into real ventures, on terms fixed the day you buy.

Invest in ventures PesewaPay runs or backs — farms, transport, equipment, property — by buying units of a product. Each product is one venture, for one season, on one set of terms.

Your terms cannot be changed after you buy One product's money cannot be spent on another A fixed-rate promise is backed before it is made
What it is

Invest in ventures PesewaPay runs or backs — farms, transport, equipment, property — by buying units of a product. Each product is one venture, for one season, on one set of terms.

There are two kinds and the difference is what happens to your capital. On a lower-risk product your money is returned at the end at a fixed rate agreed up front. On a higher-risk product you take a share of what the venture actually earns, and your capital is not guaranteed — if the venture does badly, you can get back less than you put in, or nothing.

Can I lose money?

On a higher-risk product, yes. You are taking a share of what a real venture earns, and a venture can do badly or fail. Your capital is not guaranteed and you can get back less than you put in. Lower-risk products return your capital at a fixed rate, which is why their return is lower.

How it works

From start to finish

1

Verify who you are

Investing requires completed identity verification and an application to join the programme.

2

Choose a product, not just a venture

The same venture and the same season can offer a lower-risk and a higher-risk product side by side. You pick the deal you want rather than the venture deciding for you.

3

Buy units

The terms — the rate, the length, whether you can leave early — are written onto your holding at that moment.

4

Watch it happen

Progress is reported against the venture as it goes, which matters most on a long product where nothing has come back yet.

5

Get paid

A higher-risk product shares out income as the venture earns it. A lower-risk one pays your capital and the agreed return at the end of its term.

Where your money is

At every point, you can say where it sits

  1. 1 Your wallet investments are paid from your PesewaPay wallet
  2. 2 That product's own balance it cannot be spent on anything else
  3. 3 The venture operated, and reported on
  4. 4 Back to your wallet as income is shared, or at the end of the term
What we guarantee

Not promises. Mechanisms.

Each of these is enforced in the software rather than stated as a policy. A policy can be broken; these cannot.

Your terms cannot be changed after you buy

The rate, the length, the maturity date and whether you may leave early are copied onto your holding at the moment you buy it. Editing the product afterwards cannot reach back and change the deal you agreed to.

One product's money cannot be spent on another

Every product holds its money separately and cannot go below zero — that is enforced by the database, not by convention. Money put into one venture cannot fund another, cover another's losses, or pay another's investors.

A fixed-rate promise is backed before it is made

Where a product promises to return your capital at a fixed rate, that promise is a liability we hold reserves against. If the reserve cannot cover what is being promised, the investment is refused rather than sold. An unbacked promise is not made.

Questions

What people actually ask

On a higher-risk product, yes. You are taking a share of what a real venture earns, and a venture can do badly or fail. Your capital is not guaranteed and you can get back less than you put in. Lower-risk products return your capital at a fixed rate, which is why their return is lower.

Only where a product allows it, and only on lower-risk products — on a higher-risk one there is no capital set aside to give back. Whether a product allows it, and from when, is stated on that product before you buy.

It depends entirely on the product, and it is shown on the product itself in the app rather than advertised here. We do not publish a headline rate, because a rate without its product and its risk attached is a misleading number.

Someone who has completed identity verification and applied to join the programme. The application asks about your work, your financial situation and where you are.

It is cancelled and every investor is refunded in full. Putting a tenth of the money into a venture sized for ten times that builds a venture that fails.

Any charge is shown to you before you confirm, on the same screen you confirm on — never afterwards and never buried. Charges differ by service and some are currently nothing at all. A refund is never charged for.
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