TruTrade

TruTrade provides the following services to our franchisees: TTS software platform for transparent and secure trading and payment operations and deal analytics. Trading finance - Cash-on-the-Bag and operational capital which releases cash payments to farmers as they hand over their raw produce at the collection points. Find buyers and management of... buyer relationship Mentored peer exchange learning for innovation, R&D, financial management Enable access to assets for value addition. Opportunities for cleaning, pressing, milling or packaging produce or to provide transport services. What is TSS - Transaction Security Services (TSS), is a transparent and secure brokering and payment service for managing aggregation and organizing value addition. Franchisees use IT applications for price setting, payments and transaction tracking from product collection through value addition processes to delivery to the buyer. TruTrade centralizes buyer contracting to food and feed manufacturers or BOP urban vendors as well as financing and payments. It provides aggregators with trade financing to facilitate payments to farmers, and payments for value addition 'toll' processing. Mentored peer exchange - TruTrade uses an online learning platform to facilitate exchange of experiences on specific deals, value chains and our services, enabling shared learning across the business. My Linking Local Learners (myLLL) is hosted by RAVI/Webgate and supported by RAVI's online Community of Practice for business mentors. This platform and community of users drives the continuous innovation in TSS operations and R&D on new business opportunities. Our story so far - TSS evolved with over ten years of action research and learning by farmers and traders, mentored by RAVI, on what it really means to broker on behalf of smallholders and how to overcome the challenges faced when trying to gain access to scaled buyers or BOP outlets. The evolution of TSS explains how the business model was developed - a real story of 'learning through doing'.Read More