Digital ROSCA: Reinventing collective savings with an innovative mobile application

Aïssa N.

Apr 16, 2025

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Digital ROSCA: Reinventing collective savings with an innovative mobile application

Digitalization affects all sectors, including community savings. With the emergence of digital ROSCA, traditional community financing solutions are undergoing a major transformation. Through modern platforms like Cirkkle, it is now possible to establish reliable, flexible, and secure savings groups directly from your smartphone.

What is a digital ROSCA ?

A ROSCA is a system of collective savings where each member regularly contributes to a common pot. In each cycle, one member receives the entire sum. This practice, very common in Africa and among diaspora communities, is now propelled by digital technologies.

The mobile savings application: the future of community financing

With Cirkkle, the digital ROSCA becomes accessible to all. The application offers an intuitive interface that allows you to create or join a group, track contributions in real time, and manage payments transparently.

Benefits of digitalized collective savings

  • Increased reliability thanks to digital traceability
  • Flexibility of payment cycles
  • Transparency of financial movements
  • Security of transactions through integrated payment systems

A tool for solidarity credit and crowdfunding

Users of Cirkkle can access forms of solidarity credit without going through traditional banking institutions. This is a strong lever for underbanked populations wishing to fund a personal or entrepreneurial project.

Conclusion: A modern solution for an ancestral practice

The digital ROSCA, through a mobile savings application like Cirkkle, reconciles community traditions and technological innovations. It constitutes a relevant response to current needs for crowdfunding, collective savings, and solidarity credit.

Cirkkle, a simplified joint-stock company with a capital of 17,335 euros, whose registered office is located at 249 rue Lecourbe, 75015 Paris, France, registered in the Nanterre trade and companies register under number 918 626 193, is registered with ORIAS as a crowdfunding intermediary (IFP) under number 23004412. Cirkkle is a payment service provider agent (#736637) of CentralPay, an authorized electronic money institution (CIB 17138) in France and regulated by the ACPR (Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution, 4 place de Budapest – CS 92459 – 75436 PARIS Cedex 09).

Cirkkle, a simplified joint-stock company with a capital of 17,335 euros, whose registered office is located at 249 rue Lecourbe, 75015 Paris, France, registered in the Nanterre trade and companies register under number 918 626 193, is registered with ORIAS as a crowdfunding intermediary (IFP) under number 23004412. Cirkkle is a payment service provider agent (#736637) of CentralPay, an authorized electronic money institution (CIB 17138) in France and regulated by the ACPR (Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution, 4 place de Budapest – CS 92459 – 75436 PARIS Cedex 09).