The open-source payment processing platform powering West African businesses.
Helping West African ventures sell online
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## About lomi.
lomi. is a **hosted** payment platform that integrates multiple payment service providers and provides a seamless experience for merchants and their customers across West Africa and beyond. We publish integrator tooling (API, SDKs, CLI, plugins) as open source; **production payment processing is not self-hostable today** — merchants use lomi.africa.
Our platform simplifies product, services, usage, and subscription billing while ensuring the highest levels of security, reliability, and compliance.
## Roadmap
We are progressively open-sourcing the monorepo toward **eventual self-hosting** for operators with their own provider and compliance setup. That is not available in production today. See
docs.lomi.africa for the current public tree.
- **Currently open-source**:
- Documentation website: **apps/docs**
- CLI: **apps/cli**
- API service: **apps/api**
- SDKs: **apps/sdks**
- E-commerce plugins: **apps/plugins**
- MCP server: **apps/mcp**
- Events boilerplate (separate repo): **lomiafrica/events**
- **Opening soon**:
- Merchant dashboard: **apps/dashboard**
- Shopify extension: **apps/plugins/shopify**
- **Proprietary**:
- Admin dashboard: **apps/admin**
All open-source repositories will be merged into the monorepo in the coming months.
## Payment infrastructure
lomi. integrates with the **SPI**, the official Central Bank-backed payment interoperability platform. With lomi., you can accept payments across 8 UEMOA countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo). Our platform enables Bank-to-Bank, Bank-to-Wallet, Wallet-to-Bank, and Wallet-to-Wallet transactions through our suite of APIs.
The platform provides instant payment confirmation and settlement, allowing you to send payments using SHID, MCOD, or MBNO aliases without ever shar …