Orda vs Jollozi: which suits your restaurant after the Moniepoint deal?

It is 19:30 on a Saturday. Table 6 has five friends, one bill and five opinions about who ate what. The waiter stands with a pen and a calculator while the kitchen is shouting about another order. If you run a restaurant that used Orda, you may also be wondering what the Moniepoint deal changes for you.

The short answer

Orda is strongest in the kitchen and the stock room. Jollozi is strongest at the table and the till. Neither is the right answer for every restaurant.

Stay with Orda, which is becoming Moniebook for Restaurants, if you manage ingredients and recipes closely, take orders from delivery apps, and already use Moniepoint for your payments. Look at Jollozi if guests ordering and paying from their own phones would shorten your service, if you want the bill split without a waiter doing sums, or if you want sales to settle into the bank account you already have.

You can also run one of each. They solve different problems.

What changed with the deal

Moniepoint bought Orda's Nigerian operations. TechCabal reported it on 23 Mar 2026. The price was not disclosed. Orda is to be rebranded and merged into Moniebook, Moniepoint's business management platform, and it runs as a separate business until that is finished. Existing customers keep the same support, and the look moves from Orda's green to Moniepoint's blue (TechCabal, 23 Mar 2026).

The plan for payments: the cashier records the sale in the software, the customer pays by card or bank transfer on a Moniepoint terminal, and the system confirms the payment and links it to the sale on one receipt. TechCabal said Moniepoint expected this "in the coming weeks" in March. Check with Moniepoint whether it is live for your restaurant today, and whether it needs a Moniepoint terminal and a Moniepoint account. Jollozi could not confirm either from public pages when this article was written.

No price for Moniebook for Restaurants was published in the March coverage. Ask for a written quote before you decide, and do not rely on old plan prices you may find online.

What Orda does well

Per the March coverage, Orda tracks stock down to the ingredient, manages menus and recipe combinations, shows sales and daily operations to the owner, and pulls in orders from delivery platforms so walk-in, online and delivery orders sit in one place (Innovation Village, 23 Mar 2026; FinTech Futures).

Those are the things Jollozi does not list today. Jollozi has stock tracking and alerts, but it does not do recipe costing or delivery-app order intake. If those two decide whether your kitchen makes money, Orda is the more complete tool, and Moniepoint's backing makes it a safe choice for a restaurant that already banks with Moniepoint.

Where the table is different

Orda's coverage is about staff taking orders and payments through a Moniepoint terminal. None of the sources read for this article describe guests ordering from their own phones at the table. Some details may have changed, so ask.

This is what Jollozi Table does, today:

1. A guest scans the QR code at the table and sees the menu, which they can filter by diet.
2. They order from their phone, and the order goes straight to the till.
3. They can call a waiter from the same screen.
4. Friends at the same table each see their own items, and there is one bill for the table.
5. The bill splits by what each person ordered, evenly, or by picked items.
6. They pay from the table through FlashPay, their bank approves the payment, and the sale marks itself paid.

That last step matters in a busy room. Without it, someone has to check a bank alert before releasing the table. If you want to see why that check goes wrong, read how to know a transfer has really entered your account.

Side by side

As of 10 Nov 2026, from the sources linked above and the Jollozi product list. "Not described" means the sources read for this article do not mention it, not that it does not exist.

Choose Orda if, choose Jollozi if

Choose Orda if you cook from recipes and want to know the cost of each plate, if delivery apps are a large share of your orders, and if you are comfortable with Moniepoint as your payments provider.

Choose Jollozi if your busiest hour is at the table, if you lose time to bill splitting and to checking transfers, if you want shifts to end with a blind cash count, or if you want sales to settle into the bank you already use.

Choose both if you need recipe costing in the back and table ordering in the front. Run each on one branch first.

Jollozi does not print kitchen tickets today. It shows guest orders on the till. If you need printed tickets at several stations, ask any vendor to show that working before you sign.

Five questions to ask before you switch or stay

1. Is automatic payment confirmation live today, and does it need a particular terminal or account?
2. What is the monthly price in writing, and what changes at renewal?
3. Where does the money land, and how quickly?
4. Can guests order and split the bill themselves, or does a waiter do it?
5. What happens to my sales history if I leave?