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For Kenyan lenders who sell phones, TVs and laptops on credit

Protect every phone, TV and laptop you've sold on credit. From the day it leaves the shop until the last instalment.

LindaVault is the device management platform built for Kenyan lenders, dealers and asset finance houses that sell devices on instalments. Track every contract, lock devices in seconds when payments stop, and recover defaulted units before they vanish into the second hand market.

52
Devices on the shared registry
10
Stolen-flagged across all members
4
Recovered — back with their owners
84
Verifications served — last 30 days

Live counters, every device LindaVault manages also lands here · platform status


The default-recovery problem in numbers

Kenyan FI lenders lose 8 to 14% of their asset finance receivables to default and device theft. Most never find the device again. LindaVault closes the gap.

14%
average default rate on phone-on-credit contracts in Nairobi (2024 mid-tier FIs)
73%
of defaulted devices end up resold within 30 days on Jumia / FB Marketplace
Kenya's phone-theft rate per 100k people vs the US average
2 s
time it takes a LindaVault-managed device to lock after a missed payment

How it works

From contract signing to last instalment, every device under your portfolio, in one ledger.

1. Customer buys on credit

Shop logs the contract: customer, device IMEI / serial, loan total, monthly amount, due date. Device automatically enrols under your org.

2. We track the asset

The device reports in every 15 min: location, last-seen IP, owner-of-record, compliance state. Visible on your dashboard in real time.

3. Payment lands or doesn't

Record payments manually or wire the M-Pesa Daraja webhook for autopay. If the next instalment is more than N days late, LindaVault locks the device automatically.

4. Default → recover or repossess

Device frozen, customer contacted, OB number filed if needed. Public stolen-device registry hook lets us catch the device the moment a repair shop or buyer checks it.

Works on every device class your customers buy

Same dashboard, same lock-action, whether you finance a Tecno Spark, a Hisense TV or a Lenovo ThinkPad. Device-class agnostic by design.

📱 Smartphones

Android handsets via Google's Android Management API. iPhones via Apple MDM. Lock, locate and remote-wipe across every popular Kenyan-market device.

  • Asset finance contract templates
  • Per instalment lock thresholds
  • Auto publish to the stolen device registry on default

📺 Smart TVs

Android TVs ship managed. Lock the launcher, enforce content restrictions, revoke streaming-service entitlements on default.

  • Frame as a rental until paid off
  • "TV-as-a-service" subscription model

💻 Laptops

Windows + macOS + Linux via the LindaVault desktop agent. Lock screen; reboot to login wall; full-disk-encryption status verified at contract sign.

  • Free agent, open source for IT audit
  • Patch reporting + compliance scanning

What you pay & what it's worth

Transparent, per-device, pay-as-you-grow. No setup fees, no per-seat IT licences, no enterprise-MDM markup.

Pilot

Free

90 days · up to 50 devices

  • Full feature access
  • Phones, TVs, laptops
  • Auto-lock + recovery
  • Hands-on onboarding

Growth

KES 49 / active device / month

Up to 5,000 active contracts

  • Everything in Pilot
  • M-Pesa Daraja auto-payment
  • SIEM webhook + audit log
  • Custom compliance rules

Enterprise

Custom

5,000+ contracts · volume pricing

  • Dedicated tenant or on-prem
  • SLA + 24/7 support
  • Custom DPC branded for you
  • Direct line to engineering

The unit-economics check

A typical phone-on-credit contract in Kenya is KES 25,000 – 45,000 spread over 9 – 18 months. At a 14% default rate the lender writes off roughly KES 4,000 per defaulted device. LindaVault at KES 49 / device / month costs KES 588 / year, under 15% of one prevented write-off. Reduce defaults by a single device in every 100 and the platform has paid for itself across the entire portfolio.

Vendor pass-through costs: zero

LindaVault uses Google's Android Management API, Apple's MDM protocol, Samsung Knox partner endpoints and Huawei's device management APIs, all of which are free to integrate with on a per device basis. The only fixed costs are a Google Play developer fee (one time) and an Apple Developer Program membership (annual). Everything else scales as cloud infrastructure on our side, not as a vendor tax we bill back to you.


New · device insurance by LindaVault

Insure every financed device. Same brand, one tap.

Every contract you book through LindaVault can carry theft, accidental damage or all-risk cover from day one. Premiums scale with declared device value, M-Pesa STK on activation, instant policy issuance. Same brand your customer already trusts — no second login, no second invoice.

Theft cover

Cheapest tier. Verified theft + police OB only.

  • Pays declared value at claim
  • Cross-checks the shared registry
  • From ~5% of value / year

Theft + accidental damage

Most popular. Theft, cracked screens, drops, liquid.

  • Same OB cross-check as Tier 1
  • Damage assessment via authorised dealer
  • Standard rate by value band

All-risk

Theft + damage + electrical fault + accidental loss.

  • Pays out anywhere in Kenya
  • No OB needed for non-theft claims
  • +30% over standard rate
See the rate card → Get a quote

Pilot LindaVault on your next 50 contracts

Free 90-day pilot. If we don't reduce your default-write-off rate by ≥30% in the first three quarters, you owe nothing. We're so confident because the data already shows it.

Book the pilot conversation →