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Case study · City Revenue Authority

Paying council rates without a queue.

A municipal revenue authority launched a citizen portal for billing, payments and queries, integrated with mobile money.

Sector
Government
Services
Digital Strategy, Software
Duration
10 months
Year
2023
Fig. 01 —Resident testing session, civic centre, 2023

01The challenge

Residents queued for hours to query bills and pay rates, and collection rates were falling.

02Our approach

We designed with residents, launched a minimal portal in twelve weeks and added services monthly.

03What we built

A citizen portal, mobile-money integration and a back-office case system.

  • Citizen portal
  • Mobile-money payments
  • Case management

04The results

What changed.

Of payments made online
70%
Collection rate
+23%
To first launch
12 wks

05Client view

The queues outside our offices have gone.

Nyasha T. · Director of Revenue, City Revenue Authority

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