Mercado
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Mercado, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Mercado's own pricing page, checked 20 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Growth | $15,000 a month | Storefront · Loyalty · Promotions · Multi-channel · Auto-bookkeeping · from ₦15,000/mo |
| Scale | $75,000 a month | 2–50 locations · Multi-terminal SSE · Per-branch P&L · Audit · RBAC · from ₦75,000/branch/mo |
| Starter | Free | 1 chat thread · WhatsApp · POS · Receipts · Inventory · free forever |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | BYOC · AWS · SSO/SAML · White-label · Custom SLA · NDPR & GDPR · Dedicated CSM · contact sales |
The facts
Each one read from Mercado's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accounting
- The product uses double-entry accounting, posts journal entries for sales and closes revenue and expenses into Retained Earnings.checked 20 Oct 2026
- AI analytics
- Mercado advertises SKU and branch demand forecasts, cash-flow anomaly detection, payment fraud scoring and reorder suggestions.checked 20 Oct 2026
- API
- A REST API is offered at api.mercado.africa with order creation, inventory reservation, payment-link return and journal posting.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- The site lists NDPR, PCI-DSS via certified processors, a GDPR EU data residency option, SOC 2 Type II in progress for Q3 2026, and an ISO 27001 audit starting Q2 2026.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Compliance roadmap
- The site says SOC 2 Type II is in progress for Q3 2026 and an ISO 27001 audit starts in Q2 2026.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Customer data
- Orders update customer profiles containing lifetime value, last visit, channel mix and segment membership.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Developer extensibility
- Developer capabilities listed are Server-Sent Events, webhooks, idempotency keys, event IDs, sandbox data and a Next.js theme SDK.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Developer tools
- The developer offering includes REST, SSE, webhooks, TypeScript, Python, and Go SDKs, plus a Next.js theme SDK and sandbox mode.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Mercado advertises live runnable API documentation with curl, TypeScript and Python examples, but no separate public help-center content was found.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Enterprise deployment
- Enterprise customers can deploy primary data in their AWS account, VPC, region, S3 bucket and KMS keys while Mercado runs orchestration.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Enterprise features
- Enterprise features listed include BYOC, SSO/SAML, white-label, custom SLA, NDPR and GDPR support, and a dedicated customer success manager.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Enterprise hosting
- Enterprise deployments can run in the customer's AWS account using its KMS keys and VPC; Mercado says it operates the control plane and does not copy customer data.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hosting model
- hostedchecked 21 Sep 2026
- Independent review availability
- The available third-party product page from Morphlix describes Mercado but provides no customer rating or review-count metric.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The site names Paystack, Flutterwave, Stripe, MTN MoMo, WhatsApp, Instagram catalogs, Okta, Azure AD and Google SSO/SAML.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Inventory
- Inventory supports multiple locations, automatic transfers, low-stock alerts, reservations and movement audits.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Inventory locations
- 50checked 21 Sep 2026
- Launch promotion
- A code named MERCADO60 gives the first Growth month free when used before 31 December 2026.checked 20 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- App marketplace
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
The company
- Cloud ownership model
- Morphlix says its ventures run on AWS and that the studio handles architecture, operations and FinOps.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- The site footer identifies the maker as Mercado Commerce, Inc.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Company locations
- The footer lists Lagos, Nairobi and Accra, while the product site presents those cities as operating markets.checked 20 Oct 2026
- Company status
- Morphlix labels Mercado “In build” and says it is actively being developed inside the studio.checked 20 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
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