For Vendors
1. The term “vendors” in this context refers to any entity that is willingly to use embuku platform to sale their products. The entity can be an individuals, bookstores, publishers or even authors.
2. Upon registration, every vendor before using the platform must agree with our terms and conditions by signing a binding agreement for the respective accounts to be activated by one of our staff members in order to be able to access their dashboard and use the system..
3. Once account is activated and vendors start uploading the product, it is important to take note that the platform accept payments in dollars currency, the vendors should take note and always ensure that the products uploaded prices is a true reflection of the market value in their local currencies by doing the correct conversion rate in the current context of the market.
4. All sales made by vendors, and the amount they expect from embuku payments will always be displayed on their respective dashboards that they will interact with immediately they login.
5. During login the vendors should always ensure they use the correct link from the reserved tab on the top right-hand side on the website else using a wrong link will prompt a failure message.
6. Payments to vendors will be on bi-weekly basis as long as the account has balance from sales made. Note that all transaction charges will be deducted from the total amount of the vendor’s sales.
For Academic Institutions
1. The term “institutions” in this context refers to any academic entity that manages students and has a physical library or gives students academic materials for use in classroom. The institutions willing to use embuku platform will benefit in managing their inventory products digitally along with library management system for managing their members and products.
2. Upon registration, every institution before using the platform must agree with our terms and conditions by signing a binding agreement for the respective accounts to be activated by one of our staff members in order to be able to access their dashboard and use the system. .
3. Once account is activated an institution can manage their inventories, activate their members and even sell some of their e-products for the non members. For institutions that will be selling e-products it is important to take note that the platform accept payments in dollars currency, therefore institutions should take note and always ensure that the e-products uploaded prices’ is a true reflection of the market value in their local currencies by doing the correct conversion rate in the current context of the market.
4. All sales made by institutions, and the amount they expect from embuku payments will always be displayed on their respective dashboards that they will interact with immediately they login.
5. During login the institutions should always ensure they use the correct link from the reserved tab on the top right-hand side on the website else using a wrong link will prompt a failure message.
6. Payments to institutions that sell e-products will be on bi-weekly basis as long as the account has balance from sales made. Note that all transaction charges will be deducted from the total amount of the vendor’s sales.
7. Institutions have the power to set penalties or book cost during issuance, and failure by their members to pay should be updated in the system to ensure that such members don’t get a chance to get away by being blacklisted as defaulters and denying them being granted any book in any institution that uses this same platform. Not until they sort the pending penalty or pay for a book they lost or never returned.
8. Institutions will benefit the most from the integrated library management system that will bring sanity and accountability when it comes to their academic products and members by ensuring that whoever lost any product in any institution will always be obliged at some point to come back and clear their pending arrears. In that regards institutions will pay a monthly fee of USD 50 for the services and maintenance of the site.
For Admins
1. The term “admin” in this context refers to embuku staffs who are the only persons authorized to activate or deactivate bookstores/vendors account, and institutions account based on whether they are verified or breached our agreements respectively.
2. The admins are the sole people responsible for onboarding vendors and institutions. For any help or support vendors or institutions can always feel free to contact any staff they are privy to or contact us directly from this platform. .
3. Every staff member or “admin” should always conduct themselves when dealing with vendors or institutions in a manner that conforms to embuku standards and values. Any admin who breaches our norms, we will have no option but to terminate their account.
4. All embuku staffs will be paid on commission basis of KES 1000 per month based on the number of institutions onboarded and the institutions must have make a subscription from one of the three options given.For instance staff/admin A onboards and activates 100 academic institutions and our of the 100 at least 70 institutions makes subscriptions for one year, staff/admin A will earn a monthly pay of 70X1000 = KES 70,000 per month for the entire year till the subscriptions of the institutions expires.
5. Staffs will work remotely and at their convenient with very minimal supervision while tracking the progress of their respective institutions on boarded from the dashboards with the amount they should be expecting to earn along with the past payment records.
6. Payments to admins/staffs will be end of every month starting from first day of the presiding month to the fifth day by wiring the amount in their accounts added on the system.