Ghala Academy

Learn to sell on WhatsApp

Video lessons to get the most out of Ghala — follow a series in order, or jump straight to the lesson you need. Free, no account needed.

The Ghala Academy series

Seven lessons, in order. By the last one your shop is live on WhatsApp, stocked, and collecting money.

Episode 1 · 1:51 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Get started with Ghala

The very first lesson: what Ghala does for your shop, and what to have ready before you connect anything.

Goal: Know what Ghala does and what to prepare

Episode 2 · 1:54 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Sign up for Ghala

The quickest route to an account, from the sign-up form through to your first look inside.

Goal: A Ghala account of your own

Episode 3 · 8:50 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Download and register on the merchant app

Find the Ghala Merchant App on Play Store or the App Store, open your account correctly, and start using it the same day.

Goal: The merchant app installed and signed in

Episode 4 · 1:20 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Connect your WhatsApp number

Onboard yourself, step by step, and link the number your customers already message you on.

Goal: Your WhatsApp number connected to Ghala

Episode 5 · 4:52 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Add your stock

Put products into the app — names, prices, photos, and how many you have — so the shop is ready to sell.

Goal: A catalog customers can order from

Episode 6 · 12:42 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Take payments on WhatsApp

Connect your shop to payment providers so customers check out inside the conversation instead of promising to pay later.

Goal: Money arriving without leaving the chat

Episode 7 · 2:30 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Share your shop link with customers

Where to find the right link, how to send it on WhatsApp, and how to make sure nobody gets lost on the way to your products.

Goal: Customers finding your shop on their own

Running the shop day to day

Once you are live, these are the jobs that come round every week.

4:18 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Record an order yourself

Add manual orders in the merchant app for the sales that happen face to face or over a call.

Goal: Every sale on the books, not just the online ones

4:25 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

How a customer places an order

The buyer's side of it: picking products from your link, seeing the total, and sending a complete order to your WhatsApp in seconds.

Goal: Understand exactly what your customer sees

4:00 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Send a receipt

Produce a receipt from your Ghala shop and get it to the customer straight after they pay.

Goal: Every customer leaves with a receipt

4:23 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Read your sales report

Daily, weekly, and monthly totals, which products actually move, and whether the shop is growing. No more counting in a notebook.

Goal: Decide what to stock next from your own numbers

Also worth watching

Short pieces that answer one question, plus the story behind the product.

4:34 · English

What Ghala really does

Kalebu Gwalugano on where Ghala came from, what problem it solves for the shops using it, and where it is going next.

Goal: See the whole picture before you commit

0:59 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Buying from a shop on Ghala Store

The customer's route through Ghala Store — useful when you are explaining it to someone who has never bought this way.

Goal: Explain the buying flow to a customer

0:36 · 🇹🇿 Swahili

Share your shop link in half a minute

The short version of episode seven, for when you just need the link and nothing else.

Goal: Your shop link sent, right now

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