👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Each day – Orda is up at Moniepoint

Nigerian fintech unicorn Moniepoint has acquired Orda, a restaurant administration platform. Working throughout Kenya and Nigeria, Orda powers restaurant operations for main Nigerian chains similar to these beneath the Eat’N’Go group and processes about 5.2 million transactions yearly, as of 2024, signalling the platform’s scale. The acquisition will see Orda’s Nigerian operations folded into Moniepoint’s enterprise point-of-sale (PoS) platform, Moniebook, to change into Moniebook for Eating places.

Beneath the brand new setup, a cashier information a sale contained in the restaurant administration software program, the client pays by way of a Moniepoint terminal, and the system immediately confirms and closes the transaction whereas producing a receipt that displays each the sale and fee. 

State of play: Orda is an working system for eating places and meals companies that connects how they take orders, course of funds, handle stock, run kitchens, and see analytics in a single place, each for dine‑in and all their on-line channels. It bundles PoS, stock, microsites/on-line ordering, fundamental credit score, and reporting so a bukka, fast‑service joint, or franchise can see, in actual time, what bought, by way of which channel, at what price and margin. 

Moniepoint’s casual‑market play has been to transcend “simply POS” into full enterprise tooling for small retailers: first with Grocel (rebadged as Moniebook) to digitise on a regular basis shopkeeping, then by tightly integrating bookkeeping, funds, and stock for its agent and SME base. 

Buying Orda plugs a mature, meals‑vertical working system into that Moniebook backbone, giving Moniepoint immediate depth in a big, fragmented restaurant and meals‑vendor market, and letting it layer its strengths (funds, banking, credit score, analytics) straight on high of every day operational workflows, which is the quickest option to scale utilization and lock‑in throughout casual meals companies.

That is larger than one acquisition. It’s consolidating the size and escape velocity alternative in Nigeria’s casual market: from high-value transactions processed by restaurant chains to constant mid-sized tickets in smaller bukkas. Like its friends all turning 10, it’s an thrilling happenstance that Moniepoint, Flutterwave, and Paystack have all made acquisitions this yr. 

Does Chowdeck pose a menace? Chowdeck’s 2025 acquisition of Mira, a restaurant PoS and administration system, signalled a transfer to personal the identical in‑retailer working rails that Orda and now Moniepoint are betting on, that means that if Chowdeck can deeply combine supply demand with restaurant operations and (embedded) funds at scale, it turns into a critical aggressive counterweight for meals companies deciding whose ecosystem to dwell in.

Why eating places are the prize: Giant restaurant operations could be messy if not correctly managed. A single order can contain a number of menu objects, components in stock, and combos. Now scale that throughout a number of branches with their very own stock, workers, and demand patterns. It’s one thing Orda was constructed for, and Moniepoint needs in as a result of in the event that they personal that system the place transactions occur consistently, they get to sit down on the centre of how the enterprise runs.