PaygOps + NuovoPay: Closing the Digital Divide the Paygo way

Solaris Offgrid is thrilled to announce an unmatched collaboration between PaygOps and innovative Indian manufacturer NuovoPay, which will enable last-mile distributors to offer reliable, secure and accessible smartphones through synergic solutions meant to unlock further access to digital technology for millions of unbanked people in emerging countries.

Through a seamless integration with our flexible PaygOps platform, last-mile operators can now incorporate NuovoPay smartphone financing into their offerings, while being able to complement and streamline their processes with PaygOps flexible features to manage lease, sales, after sales and inventory, thus being able to offer greater value to both the distributors and, ultimately, NuovoPay’s end users.

“We are excited to partner with Solaris Offgrid/PaygOps. The services and offerings of their PaygOps platform are perfectly aligned with what we do at NuovoPay. Our solution, which essentially helps in curbing the digital divide while making smartphone financing seamless and risk free, is complementary to the vision of Solaris Offgrid, which is of enabling companies to deliver life-changing technology to the Next Billion”, Nitesh Bhalothia, Head of Sales at NuovoPay.

NuovoPay is a cloud-based product that enables telecom carriers, device financing companies and financial institutions to de-risk the smartphone financing model with its remote locking technology. They are on a mission to empower finance companies, telecom carriers, and resellers to build a sustainable smartphone financing model.

“As we continue tailoring our IT solutions to serve multiple industries, we believe that NuovoPay is not only a key player in the digital sector, but an important partner whose mission aligns perfectly with that of Solaris Offgrid, which favours PaygOps platform to support them in reaching more households with reliable products and facilitating greater access to consumer financing, while we combine efforts to close the digital gap in the developing world”, Thibault Lesueur, Co-founder and CCO at Solaris Offgrid.

NuovoPay is set out to build a technology platform that will enable people across the world to have easy access to consumer finance and hardware such as smartphones, irrespective of credit history. With its remote device locking technology, NuovoPay streamlines the process of protecting the financed smartphones against non-payments or theft assuring effortless payment requisition. Leasing companies or telecom carriers can leverage NuovoPay capabilities to enable utmost device security and save physical device recovery costs.

Solaris Offgrid supports distributors and manufacturers across all industries in over 35 countries through Product Development Services and flexible IT solutions. Solaris Offgrid’s flagship PaygOps platform is an interoperable B2B SaaS which connects energy and utility appliances (solar devices, water-pumps, cookstoves, smart metres, e-bikes) and payment methods (Pay-as-you-go and Mobile Money) within a suite of enterprise applications or API services, to allow distributors to smoothly manage their operations and tackle their challenges at the last mile, thus enabling them to provide affordable essential products and services to millions of people at the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid.