DeryCode Technologies · Uganda
We build and operate practical digital systems that help schools, shops, SACCOs and businesses simplify operations, manage information and grow with confidence.
The product line
Every product below is built, owned and operated by DeryCode. Some are running in our own businesses today, some sit with design partners, and two are still in the workshop. The label on each card tells you which.
POS and business management
Sell, hold and reprint with the network switched off.The whole shop lives on the phone: favourites, inline discount, held sales, historical receipts, multi-branch and every shilling accounted for at close.
School assessment and reporting
Term-end report cards in one night, not a week.Teachers type marks on a phone, the console computes A2 20% and A3 80%, ranks with ties, handles fees and prints cards that match your own paper.
Digital marketplace
One listing, three kinds of buyer.Retail, wholesale and service trade on the same engine, with a double-entry ledger underneath so the month closes itself and a lender can trust the numbers.
Search engine
Answers from African sources, in the language you asked in.Twenty-two sources, ten modes and six languages including Luganda, Runyankole and Ateso. Free, no account, and it opens on a 2G phone.
Artificial intelligence
AI that already earns its place.African-source answers in the search engine, a WhatsApp assistant that takes orders and files work, and a model on the phone that reads a photographed marksheet with no network.
Developer tools
An editor for an 8GB laptop and a midnight hotspot.Built for slow, intermittent networks first: it does not stall when the line drops. Places go out in small batches to people who will use it and say where it breaks.
Fintech for cooperatives
A loan book you can see and defend.Savings, shares and loan cycles in one place, GPS-verified acreage on the farm side, NASA POWER climate data, and a branch that keeps working with no signal.
Hospitality ERP
Beds, tabs, stock and payroll in one ledger.Each worker sees only their station, and payment notifications leave on WhatsApp so the front desk stops phoning the accountant at night. Live with two design partners.
Music
Local artists paid without a middleman abroad.Previews that load on a cheap phone, playlists that remember where you stopped, and a checkout that pays the artist directly.
Analytics
Which page brought the money, in kilobytes.Records the page, the form and the WhatsApp click into our own database, and survives the 2G connection where other pixels quietly fail.
Solutions by audience
A school does not need what a SACCO needs. We start from the paperwork a team already uses, then remove the parts that cost them nights.
Marks arrive from teachers by phone or file, the console weights A2 and A3, ranks with ties and prints cards on your own paper. Fees, attendance and libraries sit alongside.
How schools use it →Held sales, favourites, inline discounts and reprinted receipts, with multi-branch stock and a close-of-day that adds up. No connection required, ever.
How shops use it →Savings, shares, loan cycles and GPS-verified acreage, with a branch that reconciles when the line returns. Training comes with the install, not after it.
How SACCOs use it →Beds, tabs, stock, payroll and the day cash in one ledger, with role-based access so each worker sees only their station, and WhatsApp notifications built in.
See the work →Why DeryCode
We are a small studio, so we rely on evidence instead of scale. Each point below can be verified on this site, in a public repository, or by visiting a business that runs the software.
The till, the hotel ledger and the foundation are operated by us and by family businesses every day. Software that fails here gets fixed before a client ever sees it.
The till, the school console and the teacher app are built to work with the network switched off, because that is the normal condition, not the exception.
DeryAccount and School Report Maker keep the school and shop data locally. Cloud accounts are optional, used for backups and marks bundles only.
Licences and project prices are on the pricing page in UGX, with what each tier includes. You should not have to book a call to learn a price.
Screenshots, crash logs and questions go to one WhatsApp number, answered by the engineer who built the thing rather than a call centre.
The releases are dated and versioned, and the POS is developed in public on GitHub. Nothing is announced before it exists, including the IDE.
Proof of work
Real systems with real operators behind them. Read the build, or go and ask them.
Kyenjojo · Hospitality
Rooms, restaurant, events and the finance ledger in one system, with WhatsApp payment notifications and role-based access for each worker.
Read the case study →Farmer cooperatives · Fintech
Savings, shares and loan cycles with GPS-verified acreage and climate data, built for branches where the connection is unreliable.
Read the case study →Shops and counters · Retail
An offline-first Android till handling held sales, favourites and reprinted receipts across branches, developed in public on GitHub.
See how it works →On testimonials: we publish quotes only with the named client's written permission, so this space fills as permissions come in rather than with invented praise. The case studies above are the verifiable version.
The organisation
Talent is everywhere in western Uganda. Opportunity is not, and neither is a machine to learn on. The foundation puts young people in front of one for free: coding, cyber-safety, and how to earn and save online without being robbed by a stranger on a phone. The best of them leave with paid work, not a certificate.
Coding, computer basics and online earning, taught in Kyenjojo and the surrounding districts. Cohorts stay small because the machines are shared.
How to spot online scams, and how to save and send money safely on a phone, because most learners meet the internet on a borrowed handset.
The strongest graduates go on to paid work with the studio or with the businesses we serve. That is the whole point of the foundation.
Intake and donations are handled on WhatsApp: +256 762 306 675.
Pricing
Product licences are annual and per school or branch. Project work is quoted per scope, with the entry prices below. Nothing here is a placeholder: these are the numbers we invoice.
Search
Free for ever
The search engine, for anyone with a phone.
School Report Maker
UGX 100,000 /year, from
Five tiers by student count, up to UGX 600,000 for multi-branch.
Custom systems
UGX 8M and up
For a system that does not exist yet, built to your paper.
Every licence includes support on WhatsApp from the engineer who built the product. Prices are in Ugandan shillings and exclude bank charges.
Straight answers
If your question is not here, the answers library has 59 more, or ask us on WhatsApp.
No. DeryAccount, School Report Maker and DeryCode Search are self-serve: licence, install, work. The hotel ERP and the SACCO wallet are installed with training because they touch money.
The till, the school console and the teacher app are offline-first by design, and keep working with no connection at all. DeryCode Search and DeryMarket need a connection and say so plainly.
On your own machine for DeryAccount and School Report Maker. Cloud accounts are optional, used only for backups and marks bundles. No learner or customer data is sold, and none of it is used to train models.
DeryCode owns and operates all of them. Support comes from the engineer who built the product, on one WhatsApp number, and we also run the systems inside our own businesses.
Yes, in development. DeryCode Studio is a coding environment built for our own work first, because the editors we use assume fast networks. No public beta and no release date yet.
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