What yelo.mu is
yelo.mu is one of Mauritius's established online business directories. It spans more than a thousand categories and thousands of local businesses, and a listing typically carries contact details, an interactive map, a description, images, and customer ratings and reviews. It's a genuinely useful, broad reference for finding almost any kind of company on the island — from accountants to restaurants to tradespeople — and businesses can list themselves.
Because it covers everything, it works like a classic directory: a wide net that helps you find a business and its contact details. Prouva is built for a narrower job, done more deeply.
Where Prouva is different
Prouva does one thing — home-service providers — and builds a deliberate trust model around it. Three differences stand out.
Reviews are structured and verified, not just open ratings
On Prouva, reviews come from signed-in accounts through a short factual survey (one review per customer per provider), and the score is computed from those facts rather than a free-typed star rating. Crucially, a review backed by an invoice or contract is marked Verified and weighs far more, recent experience counts for more than old jobs, and the model is designed to make both fake positive and malicious negative reviews harder to sustain.
Providers can be verified
A provider can claim their listing and earn a Verified badge once their identity and, where applicable, their business registration number (BRN) have been checked — so the badge reflects something that was actually confirmed.
Focused and free, run as a non-profit
Because Prouva covers only home services, search results and the questions asked are tailored to that decision. It's free for customers and providers, with no paid placement, and is run as a non-profit community project.
Which should you use?
These aren't mutually exclusive. For a quick lookup of any business's phone number or address, a broad directory like yelo.mu is handy. When the decision matters more — you're hiring a plumber, electrician, builder or cleaner and want to know who is genuinely reliable — Prouva's verified reviews and provider verification are purpose-built for exactly that judgment. Many people will use both: a directory to find options, and Prouva to check who to trust.
How the two compare
| yelo.mu | Prouva | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | All business types (1,000+ categories) | Home-service providers |
| Cost to use | Free | Free |
| Reviews | Open customer ratings and reviews | Computed from a factual survey; invoice-verified and recent reviews weigh more; one per account; moderated |
| Provider verification | Directory listing of business details | Verified badge after owner identity and BRN checks |
| Who runs it | A commercial directory company | A non-profit community project |
| Best for | Looking up any business's details | Choosing a home-service provider you can trust |
Finding a trusted provider on Prouva
- Search the trade and area you need, and shortlist two or three providers with solid, recent reviews.
- Favour providers with Verified reviews and, where it matters, a Verified business badge.
- Get a written, itemised quote before committing, and agree payment in stages.
- Leave an honest review afterwards — it's what keeps the directory trustworthy for your neighbours.