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Kikoba – The Smarter Way to Save Together  

Transform the way your financial group saves, invests, and grows with Kikoba. This modern digital savings platform is designed for groups like families, friends, VICOBA, VSLA, and SACCOs. Kikoba enables your group to contribute funds, save securely, purchase end of your financial cycle. All of this is done through one seamless and transparent platform.

Eliminate manual record-keeping with real-time tracking of contributions, loans, and automated dividend sharing. Join the growing number of groups already succeeding with Kikoba and take your group’s financial management to the next level.

Friends/ Family

This is a special account for small groups, it could be family or friends who intend to contribute money and later share it over time.

VICOBA / VSLA

This is a special account for groups with a wide range of members and with a system for selling and buying shares, savings, Social Contributions and Loans. These groups include VICOBA / Village Saving and Loans Associations (VSLA) / Community Banks (CB) / Savings and Investment Community (SILC)

How to use Kikoba via USSD Menu

How To Register
a group

  • Dial *150*01#
  • Select 7 Financial services
  • Select 8: Savings
  • Select 3: Kikoba
  • Select 1: Register a group 
  • Choose 1: Friends/Family or VICOBA/VSLA
  • Indicate preferred name of the group
  • Indicate starting amount
  • Insert Mixx PIN
  • Then follow instructions

How to Make Contribution / Buy Shares

  • Dial *150*01#
  • Select 7 Financial services
  • Select 8: Savings
  • Select 3: Kikoba
  • Select Respective Group
  • On Friend/Family Select 1- Contribute
  • On VICOBA/VLSA Select 1- Buy Shares
  • Select your own account
  • Insert amount
  • Insert Mixx PIN
  • Then follow instructions

How To Request a
Loan

  • Dial *150*01#
  • Select 7 Financial services
  • Select 8: Savings
  • Select 3: Kikoba
  • Select specific VICOBA/VSLA group 
  • Select 2 : Loans
  • Select 1: Request a loan
  • Insert Mixx PIN
  • Then follow instructions

How to pay for a
Loan

  • Dial *150*01#
  • Select 7 Financial services
  • Select 8: Savings
  • Select 3: Kikoba
  • Select specific VICOBA/VSLA group 
  • Select 2 : Loans
  • Select 2 : Repay loan
  • Then follow instructions

How to pay
Penalties

  • Dial *150*01#
  • Select 7 Financial services
  • Select 8: Savings
  • Select 3: Kikoba
  • Select specific VICOBA/VSLA group 
  • Select 4 : Penalty
  • Select 1 : Repay penalty
  • Then follow instructions

How to access Kikoba service for other MNO’s

  • Dial *150*21#
  • Select 3: Mixx Kikoba
  • Select the respective group that you want to access
  • Then follow instructions
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Frequently Asked Questions

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What is Kikoba?

Kikoba is a financial service run by Mixx in partnership with TCB Bank that allows you to run savings accounts for groups of friends / family or VICOBA. This product will focus on providing enabling environment for small micro-based groups to operate in real-time to ensure cost effective, security and transparency among members and a group in general. This service will be available through Mixx USSD menu. Customers will dial *150*01# then click Financial Services then select Savings then select KIKOBA

KIKOBA consists of two Accounts which are;

i. Friends/ Family:

This is a special account for small groups, it could be family or friends who intend to contribute money and later share it over time.

FRIENDS/FAMILY MENU: Group 1> 1. Contribute> 2. Balance > 3. Requests > 4. Members> 5. Transfer> 6. Verify> 7. Approve funds> 8. Regulation

ii. VICOBA / VSLA:

This is a special account for groups with a wide range of members and with a system for selling and buying shares, savings, Social Contributions and Loans. These groups include VICOBA / Village Saving and Loans Associations (VSLA) / Community Banks (CB) / Savings and Investment Community (SILC)

VICOBA MENU: Group 1> 1. Buy Shares> 2. Return Loan> 3. Community> 4. Penalty> 5. Balance> 6. Transfer / Verify / Approve Money> 7. Membership/Regulation > 8. Request

This service can be access by Yas customers via Mixx USSD menu *150*01# and other MNO’s can access it via *150*21#

No fee will be charged for withdrawing money from their Mixx account to a group account or withdrawing money from a group account to a group member.

There are no any fees incurred by the customer sending money from his/her Mixx wallet to KIKOBA group saving account or from group account to group members wallet.

Each group in KIKOBA must have three leaders who are:

  1. CHAIRMAN: He is the founder and moderator of the group. He has the power to add any member and to elect other leaders, he is the one who sets the level of buying shares, interest, penalties. He is also the last person to approve the transfer of payment to any member through the Approval funds option from the Kikoba menu.
  2. SECRETARY: Added by the group chairman and initiates all payments and Loans to other members by selecting Transfer money from the Kikoba menu. He/she can also add members to the group.
  3. TREASURER: Added by the group chairman, he has the authority to verify Payments and Loans offered to members through the Verification of money options on the Kikoba menu. He/she can also add members to the group.

Yes, group members from other network can Join Kikoba as well and conduct their basic activities of the group like share purchase, Loan repayment, Punishment payment among others via *150*21#. However, for them to access leadership functionalist they should join with a Yas number. Since all leaders must be Yas customers.

In the event of a dispute with the group members due to a disagreement over the group’s finances the group members will be required to report to the police where they will be given a special permit from the police and submit to Mixx to prevent the group’s funds from flowing. Upon receipt of Police clearance Mixx funds and group members will be required to reconsider their police differences and obtain another permit to allow Mixx to open their group funds.

In the group account there will be no limit to receiving transactions, but in the case of a group member he will be allowed to receive or make transactions according to his or her (Tier) Mixx transaction limits.

The KIKOBA group must have at least five members. To create an KIKOBA account Each group should have three leaders i.e Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. Group Leaders or signatories must be Yas network customers and Mixx Registered.

When the Customer opens or joins the KIKOBA Account Customer information will be sent from Mixx to TCB bank. This information is Client Name, Telephone Number, Gender and Age of Client and all others that will support to open and process the request, Thus before opening or joining an KIKOBA Account the customer will be required to accept the Terms and Conditions.

Funds will be transferred through three phases in the Kikoba menu.

a. The secretary shall initiate the process of payment from the group account to the member

b. The treasurer shall review the payment, and the chairman of the group shall approve the payment then the funds will be transferred from the group account to the intended member

c. In addition to these three leaders, group members can change the approval system to involve members to participate to allow this payment can be changed through the group menu > group rules by selecting >a type of approval > leaders and members will then vote by choosing 2/8.request to accept this new approval system.

Customers will be able to contact Yas Customer care for any complaints, this include calling 100 or channel their query through our social media pages.

Terms & Conditions

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