Fostering a Vibrant Local Economy
Manage business permits, market operations, cooperative societies, and tourism enterprises through one streamlined platform built for Kenyan counties.
Trade & Tourism Dashboard
Is Red Tape Slowing Down Your County's Commerce?
Counties need a smoother path from licensing to market management if they want to attract investment, protect revenue, and serve businesses efficiently.
Businesses face long queues and confusing paperwork for permits and renewals.
Manual market stall allocation and cess collection cause inefficiency and leakage.
Tourism and enterprise data often sits in disconnected records.
Investor follow-up is difficult without a system for tracking opportunities.
What a Unified Platform Fixes
A Unified Platform for Economic Enablement
Unified Business Licensing Portal
Offer one online route for license applications, renewals, payments, and status tracking.
Automated Renewals & Reminders
Keep businesses compliant with reminders and streamlined renewal workflows.
Market & Vendor Management
Digitize stall allocation, vendor records, and daily cess collection.
Co-operatives Registry Management
Manage registration, compliance, and reporting for cooperative societies.
Tourism Enterprise Management
Maintain a current registry of hotels, operators, and tourism sites while supporting promotion.
Investment Promotion & Tracking
Track investor enquiries, applications, and support activity to convert opportunities faster.
Trade and Tourism Teams Move Faster With Better Visibility
Digital workflows remove friction from licensing and renewals.
Vendor, cess, and permit activity becomes easier to reconcile.
Opportunities are easier to track across the department.
Single Business Permits and the ICRMS Compliance Mandate
Single Business Permit (SBP) revenue is one of the highest-volume Own Source Revenue streams across Kenya's 47 counties — millions of active business licences covering retail, hospitality, transport, manufacturing, and market trade. The annual SBP renewal cycle represents the largest single revenue collection event in most county trade departments.
ICRMS Regulations 2025 mandate digital receipting for all county revenue collection, including business permit fees at trade department counters and in the field. Paper-based SBP issuance and cash collection at trade exhibitions, market days, and walk-in counters is now non-compliant with the national revenue management standard — counties that have not transitioned face both audit risk and enforcement exposure.
Market levy collection — from stall holders across hundreds of market sites in each county — is a significant cash OSR stream where leakage accumulates before overnight deposits clear. The M-Pesa STK push model, required under ICRMS, eliminates the cash handling cycle: the transaction syncs to the county revenue system at the point of collection, and the supervisor's dashboard updates in real time.
CountyERP Trade, Tourism & Licensing System automates the SBP lifecycle from application through renewal, with ICRMS-compliant digital receipting at every collection touchpoint — reducing OSR leakage where the transaction volumes are highest.
Calculate Your Savings
Estimate licensing compliance uplift
Project additional permit revenue, faster processing, and better compliance from a digital licensing flow.
Enter your own county figures across the calculator.
KSh 108.5M
Potential annual licensing value not currently captured
KSh 52.4M
Directional year-one licensing uplift
61
Applications auto-processed per day
21,289 hrs
Annual hours saved
Business Licensing Benchmarks
- Typical undigitised compliance level
- 30-45%
- Digital licensing target
- 70%+ active compliance
- Processing time with manual workflows
- 5-10 days
- Penalty uplift via reminders
- 5-10%
Drive Economic Growth in Your County
Drive Economic Growth in Your CountyGive your trade and tourism teams one platform for licensing, markets, tourism oversight, and investor support.