About our company
Assured joy, precisely engineered.
Onoyolo takes its name from the Xhosa word for joy. It is an unusual thing to name a hardware importer after — and it is the whole point.
Who we are
A specialised importer, and a technical partner on the ground.
We assist customers that need quality hardware platforms for their professional applications in retail, hospitality, transport & logistics, industrial, mining, manufacturing, healthcare, government and enterprise security sectors. We are registered with local leading distributors, which gives us access to leading brands.
What separates a supplier from a partner is what happens after the delivery note is signed. Local support and warranty management, a spares pool held in country, and NRCS and ICASA certification handled as part of the service rather than passed back to you as a problem.
By the numbers
Fifteen years of specification.
Long enough to have seen which components fail, and in which order.
100+
Satisfied clients
15+
Years experience
3
Office locations
9
Sectors served
How we work
Four commitments
These are not values on a wall. They are the reasons a specification takes longer with us and costs less over five years.
Specify the environment, not the order
The duty cycle, the ambient temperature, the power quality and the failure you cannot tolerate. Get those right and the part number follows.
Keep the chain local
Staging, configuration, kiosk manufacture, spares and warranty all sit in South Africa. A cross-border RMA is a three-week outage; a local swap is an afternoon.
Carry the compliance
NRCS approval and ICASA registration for imported product are ours to obtain and ours to evidence — not a certificate you go hunting for at audit.
Answer the phone
The person who scoped the deployment is the person who picks up when something has gone wrong with it. There is no tier one.
Our story
From one product line to a full estate.
2011
Founded in Johannesburg
Onoyolo opens as a specialist importer focused on point-of-sale hardware for the South African retail market.
2015
Local staging facility
A dedicated configuration and burn-in facility opens, so hardware ships imaged, tested and asset-tagged rather than boxed and hopeful.
2019
Certification practice
In-house NRCS and ICASA handling makes import compliance part of the service rather than a client problem.
2022
Kiosk manufacture
Local design and manufacture of kiosk enclosures brings the whole cabinet under one supplier.
2026
Three office locations
Over one hundred satisfied clients and a spares-holding footprint across three offices.
Where we work
Nine sectors, one standard
Retail & hospitality
High-volume transactional hardware across tills, kiosks and table-side service.
Transport & logistics
Scanning, tracking and dispatch across depots, routes and yards.
Mining & industrial
Fanless, dust-proof edge computing rated for temperature and vibration.
Enterprise security
Biometric terminals and access control hardware for controlled, auditable identity verification.
Healthcare & government
Compliant, auditable estates with documented certification and local cover.
Manufacturing
Shop-floor terminals that interface with legacy plant over serial and fieldbus.
