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Vabu OSThe infrastructure for live experiences in Africa

One API for events, fans, commerce, streaming, messaging and payments. Use one product or all of them. Bring your own login and payments, or use ours.

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API reference

Events and ticketing

Create events, sell tickets, run the door and see who came.

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Fanbases and loyalty

Give each audience a home, with members, points and tiers that reward showing up.

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Commerce and shops

Sell merchandise and digital goods next to your events and streams.

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Streams

Put live video and replays in your own app, with paid access and viewer limits.

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Promoters

Let people sell for you and get paid for it.

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Messaging

Reach your audience on WhatsApp, SMS and email.

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Payments

Take M-Pesa and card payments and settle them to your organizers.

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Identity (Vabu ID)

Sign people in with a phone code, an email link, Google, Apple, Facebook or Payd.

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Insights

See sales, audience and conversion numbers for what you run.

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Who it is for ​

Vabu OS is for the people who build and run live experiences: a nightlife app that streams its DJs, a church that streams its services, a sports league that sells match passes, an events company that sells tickets and sends reminders. If your product has a crowd, a ticket, a stream or a fan, there is a piece here for it.

Bring your own login and payments, or use ours ​

You choose how much of the platform to take.

  • Keep your own login. Your server tells Vabu who is signed in, with a short token. Or use Vabu ID, with phone codes on WhatsApp and SMS, email links and Google.
  • Keep your own payments. For streams, you take payment your way and make one call to give the customer access. For tickets and shop orders, Vabu's checkout takes M-Pesa and cards.
  • Use it all. Login, payments and every product on one set of keys, with one customer across them.

Read ways to use Vabu OS and sign-in options.

The products work together ​

A ticket sale earns fan points. A check-in earns more. A message brings people back. A stream reaches the people who could not come. Every interaction is an event your server can hear about, so one product feeds the next. See how the products work together.

Start building ​

  1. Get a test key. Test keys come with every tenant from the first minute.
  2. Make your first request. Copy a snippet in curl, TypeScript, PHP, Python or Go.
  3. Pick a product. Read what it does and which calls exist today.
  4. Streaming? Try the Streams quickstart. Create a live stream, give a customer access and play it in about twenty minutes.
  5. Switch to live keys when your test run works. The API reference lists every endpoint.

Features that are not in the API yet are listed on What's coming.

Vabu OS documentation

Vabu Group