Techna-X To Digitalise Ticketing For Kenya Wildlife Parks And Reserves

Techna-X Berhad has landed a 5-year exclusive technology agreement with Pesapass Limited, to license its Revenue Management System for Kenya Wildlife Service and all of its 65 national parks and reserves.   

This will be significant milestone in the African continent for Techna-X, the RMS developed for KWS will be known as the Safaripay Platform and will be implemented across all of its managed parks which receive over 2 million visitors per year. The combined ticketing revenue for all the parks managed by KWS are valued up to RM500 million annually in a regular pre-Covid19 pandemic year.   

Under the agreement, its subsidiary TPI will own all Intellectual Property Rights in respect of the Safaripay and in consideration of the licence for use by Pesapass, it will be entitled to a 1percentage of the total net revenue transacted over the platform. “TPI has been working together with Pesapass to secure the RMS project from KWS for the past 2 years. This is touted as the largest RMS and one of the largest IT system development in the history of Kenya. The RMS will help KWS to digitalise its entire revenue collection and management system including online and onsite ticketing, facility and amenities reservations as well as consolidating and support for relevant existing third-party focused operations. At the same time, the RMS will reduce any potential revenue leakages, which means greater returns back to the Kenya wildlife and its community.”, said Datuk Jared Lim, Executive Director of Techna-X.

Job scope for the contract includes support for Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud hosted high specification secure digital wallet and revenue management payment solutions. Safaripay will enable Pesapass to provide digital payments, revenue collection, connectivity devices, and loyalty propositions to KWS’s merchandise retail clients across its participating affiliates.

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This project is expected to be deployed in the 4th quarter of this year and holds a wide potential upside to implement other capabilities on Safaripay. TPI will potentially be able to introduce additional technology elements into Safaripay, such as data analytics and IoT capabilities to further enhance the usefulness and efficiency in its system.

This will be the second project secured by TPI in the African continent. The first being a 5-year partnership with South Africa’s Snappistore to provide a superapp platform which supports e-commerce businesses across the continent. Both projects are implemented through a revenue sharing system which will generate new and sustainable income streams for Techna-X Group.

    

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