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The Foundation

Infrastructure for a More Responsible World.

Kahua gives businesses the infrastructure to connect commerce, customer participation, verified impact, and loyalty through one system.

Kahua — live overview

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What Is Kahua?

Kahua brings giving into your store.

A Shopify app that lets customers round up their purchase to support the planet.

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Installed

01

Add Kahua

Install the app on your Shopify store.

Checkout

Subtotal$48.27
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Total$49.00
+$0.73

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Customers Round Up

At checkout, customers can round up their purchase to support impact.

Business dashboard

Business impact dashboard updated

Customer Passport updated
Contribution recorded

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Kahua Does the Rest

The contribution is recorded, the customer gets credit, and the business can see its impact.

What happens next?

Impact shouldn't end at checkout.

One purchase can become a relationship.

One purchase activates the entire system.

Kahua keeps every customer action connected — from purchase to impact to long-term relationship.

$48.27

Customer purchase

+$0.73

Round-up

The Kahua Flywheel

01

Round-Up

The customer participates during checkout.

Subtotal · $48.27

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Record

The customer's action becomes part of their Mission Mālama Passport and lifetime impact record.

Your Passport

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Reward

Progress can unlock recognition, benefits, experiences, rewards, or brand value.

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Repeat

The customer now has another reason to return, participate again, and deepen their relationship with the brand.

Next visit, ready to go

This is not a funnel. It is a flywheel.

Purchase → Participation → Progress → Value → Return → Purchase

Why Brands Pay

Six reasons purpose-driven businesses choose Kahua.

Your Passport

Growing with every visit

Customer Relationship

Retention

Give customers progress worth returning to.

Repeat Purchases

Every purchase continues their impact story.

Checkout

Subtotal$48.27
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Commerce

Conversion

Give customers an easy way to participate at checkout.

Differentiation

Make purpose part of the experience — not another campaign.

Brand dashboard

Impact

Engagement

Participation

Intelligence

Measurable Impact

See what participation actually creates.

Customer Intelligence

Understand how customers engage with purpose.

Purpose becomes a competitive advantage.

Underneath It All

Simple on the surface. Powerful underneath.

Kahua quietly connects the systems that make Mission Mālama work at scale.

01

Automation

Impact events, customer participation, and progress update automatically.

02

Verification

Connect contributions to trusted partners and documented impact activity.

03

Dashboards

Give businesses visibility into participation, impact, customer activity, and program performance.

04

Passports

Connect customer actions to an individual, growing record of participation and impact.

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Integrations

Connect Kahua with the commerce and business systems brands already use.

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Data + Intelligence

Turn participation and impact activity into useful business insight.

The experience feels simple because the infrastructure is powerful.

Get Started

From integration to impact in four steps.

01

Connect

Connect Kahua to your Shopify store.

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Choose

Choose how customers participate and where impact is directed.

Impact Partners

Reef Restoration
Native Reforestation
Plastic Recovery

03

Launch

Activate Mission Mālama inside the customer journey.

yourstore.com
Subtotal$48.27
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Grow

Track participation, impact, and engagement over time.

Kahua Dashboard — this month

Participation
Impact

The Network Effect

One business makes a difference. Thousands change the system.

1 Business

One place to participate.

10 Businesses

Passport activity spans multiple brands.

100 Businesses

More categories. More participation.

1,000+ Businesses

The ecosystem becomes visible.

Places to participate ↑Passport activity ↑Partner support ↑Collective impact ↑Customer utility ↑Ecosystem intelligence ↑

Every business strengthens the ecosystem.

More businesses create more places to participate, more value for customers, more support for trusted partners, and a stronger Mission Mālama ecosystem for everyone inside it.

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The Future of Commerce

The future belongs to businesses that create more than transactions.

Relationships.
Participation.
Impact.
Loyalty.
Progress.

Kahua gives businesses the infrastructure to create all of it.

Build a business people want to grow with.