About Teregna
Teregna is queue management software for service businesses. Barbershops, salons, clinics, tax offices — any business where people walk in and wait. We manage the line so your customers stay: they check in, see their position live, and get a text when it's their turn. No paper list. No front desk drama.
A customer walks in, counts the heads in front of them, and leaves. The shop owner never knows. The paper list has no way to capture what it didn't see.
Studies on wait psychology consistently show the same thing: an uncertain wait feels longer than a known one. A customer told "it's 35 minutes" will wait. A customer who doesn't know walks at 15 minutes of uncertainty — even if the real wait is only 20.
The fix isn't a shorter wait. It's information. Teregna gives customers a real position, a real estimate, and a text the moment it's their turn. That's it.
We built Teregna specifically for independent and growing service businesses — the kinds of places that run on regulars, reputation, and how well they treat people's time.
ተረኛ (Teregna) is an Amharic word meaning "the one whose turn it is" — the person next in line. The moment someone's name gets called and the wait is over.
We chose it because the whole product is built around that moment. Every feature exists to make it arrive faster, feel more predictable, and leave both the customer and the business owner feeling like the experience was handled with respect.
We're live in the United States — full product, Stripe billing, 30-day free trial, then from $29/month.
We're also live in Ethiopia with a free beta — 100 clients per month, no card needed, 90 days. The dashboard and customer queue run natively in Amharic, Tigrinya, and Afaan Oromo. No other queue management software does this. We built it because these markets are underserved, not because it was easy.
Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa are next, with M-Pesa, Paystack, and local language support. If you're in one of those countries and want early access, .
We're a small, independent team. We ship fast, we don't overclaim, and we fix things before we promote them. We removed every misleading statement from our marketing before we launched — not because someone made us, but because we think that's the only way to build something worth trusting.
Teregna LLC is based in the United States with operations in Ethiopia. If you have a question, want to give feedback, or are running 3+ locations, we'd like to hear from you.