Case Study . FinTech Trade & Financing Platform

FinTech Trade & Financing Platform: 40% Faster Approvals

How ZAPTA helped a fintech client connect corporates, suppliers, and banks in one secure ecosystem, streamlining procurement, automating invoicing, and unlocking faster financing for SMEs, with 100+ suppliers onboarded.

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Industry

Fintech

Project type

Custom Web Application

Engagement model

End-to-End MVP Development

Platform

Web · Cloud

Region

Africa

User roles

Corporate · Supplier · Bank · Super Admin

Project snapshot

Engagement at a Glance

The client envisioned a fintech platform to transform how small and medium-sized enterprises manage trade, procurement, and financing. The goal was to connect three parties who rarely share a system, corporates, suppliers, and banks, in a single digital ecosystem that reduces friction across procurement, payment, and loan approvals.

Before the platform, SMEs were held back by fragmented procurement with little transparency, manual invoice and payment handling prone to errors and delays, limited access to financing, and slow approval workflows spread across the three parties. Without centralized oversight, compliance and governance were difficult to maintain

ZAPTA designed and delivered a secure, role-based procurement finance platform where corporates manage RFPs, POs, and invoices, suppliers request financing, banks approve requests, and Super Admins oversee compliance and audit readiness.

40% faster

Faster procurement approvals

100+ fewer

Suppliers onboarded to the platform

$1M processed

In SME financing requests facilitated

The challenge

What the client came to us with

Connecting corporates, suppliers, and banks on one platform surfaced four structural problems, each rooted in fragmented, manual processes rather than a lack of effort.

Fragmented procurement
Procurement

Corporates send RFPs and POs to suppliers, with every response reviewed through an initiator/approver workflow before moving forward.

Manual invoicing & payments
Invoicing

Invoice and payment handling was manual, leading to avoidable errors and delays at exactly the points where accuracy matters most.

Limited access to liquidity
Financing

Suppliers had few financing options, leaving them with liquidity challenges even when they held approved invoices and contracts.

The solution

A secure, role-based trade & financing platform

Four design decisions turned slow, multi-party processes into one governed, auditable workflow.

RFPs, POs & structured approvals
Procurements & trades

Corporates send RFPs and POs to suppliers, with every response reviewed through an initiator/approver workflow before moving forward.

Automatic invoice generation
Automation

Once a purchase order is approved, the platform generates the invoice automatically, reducing manual errors and saving time across every transaction.

Invoice-backed SME financing
Financing

Suppliers request financing against approved invoices or contracts, and banks review, decide terms, and release funds through a structured, step-by-step workflow.

Super admin oversight & RBAC
Governance

A Super Admin layer monitors all parties, manages users, sub-users, and permissions, and enforces the security and governance needed for regulatory alignment.

Client voices

What Terry Said

Key features build

What we redesigned

A complete, role-based trade and financing platform, each capability mapped to one of the three parties or the governance layer that connects them.

1
Procurement & trade workflow
Corporates issue RFPs and purchase orders; suppliers respond; corporates review, approve, or reject, all tracked in one place with clear status at each stage.
2
Initiator & approver sub-roles
Sub-user roles separate request creation from validation, so initiators raise requests and approvers check them, building accountability into every action.
3
Automatic invoicing
Invoices generate automatically once purchase orders are approved, cutting manual effort and the errors that come with re-keying data.
4
SME financing requests
Suppliers needing liquidity request financing using approved invoices or contracts, opening access to capital that was previously hard to reach.
5
Bank loan workflow
Business unit heads, initiators, and approvers handle loan requests step by step, banks review, decide terms, and release funds directly through the platform.
6
Super admin governance
Centralized oversight of corporates, suppliers, and banks, with role and permission management and compliance controls to keep the system audit-ready.

Results delivered

The outcomes that mattered

Value delivered across adoption, quality, and personalization, anchored by the platform’s real usage figures.

40% faster faster

Structured initiator–approver workflows shortened procurement approval cycles.

100+ suppliers down

Suppliers onboarded to transact and access financing on one platform.

$1M requested live

In SME financing requests facilitated through invoice-backed flows.

Paperless onboarded

Invoicing and financing became automated and error-resistant.

Tracked by default

Corporates, suppliers, and banks share clear approval trails and real-time status.

Audit-ready month

Super Admin oversight improved compliance and reduced operational risk.

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Stack

The technology stack

A secure, cloud-ready web stack selected for real-time reporting, AI-powered legislative monitoring, and audit traceability. (Representative stack.)

AWS
AWS
GCP
GCP
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Azure
Vercel
Netlify
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Docker

How we worked

Our Three-Phase Delivery Process

The same process ZAPTA applies to every engagement — adapted to DrBroker’s six-month, fixed-scope timeline.

Phase 1

Consult and Align

Discovery, strategy, planning, requirement gathering, roadmap alignment.

Phase 2

Design and Engineer

UI/UX, architecture, development, testing, iteration.

Phase 3

Deploy and Maintain

Launch, monitoring, support, optimization, scaling.

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