About
Named after a forest on the Viphya plateau.
Luwawa Forest Reserve sits in northern Malawi. The software is built in Blantyre by Fickson Limited, for companies that run here.
Why
Most HR software assumes a country it was not built for.
Tools written elsewhere arrive with the wrong currency and tax rules nobody can edit. What is left is a spreadsheet for payroll, a WhatsApp group for leave, and a filing cabinet for everything else.
Luwawa started the other way round: kwacha by default, and deduction rules that each company sets for itself. It began as HR and payroll. Then companies asked for hiring, equipment and check-ins on the same record, and it grew into a workspace for running the whole company.
How we build
Three commitments.
Records over messages
If a decision matters, it belongs on a record with a name and a date against it, not in a thread someone has to scroll back through.
Rates are data, not code
A budget speech should not need a software release. Deduction rules belong to each company, and old versions are kept.
Say what it does not do
Every product page has a Not yet list. If a feature is not built, we say so rather than imply it.
Reach us
Fickson Limited, Blantyre, Malawi.
Pricing, moving a payroll across, a walk-through.
If you already use Luwawa. Support
Something serious. We will confirm receipt.