Upload any SA bank
Drop a statement from any South African bank — CSV, OFX, QIF or the bank’s own export. Then match it in one sitting.
Accounting for South African small business
The books, without the R590 software bill.
Els Books is the ledger for cafés, traders, contractors and shops who will not pay Sage or Xero prices. Bank. Invoices. Bills. VAT201. Debtors. R59 a month.
Demo company: Kloof Street Provisions (Pty) Ltd · VAT 4678123456 · Category A
R59
per month, full books
15%
VAT mapped to SARS boxes
0
contracts, per-user fees, or modules
What you can do this morning
Invoices & supplier bills
Open a job card for the work, then turn it into a South African tax invoice when it is done. VAT number, CIPC, 15% / zero-rated / exempt.
VAT201 ready for eFiling
Boxes 1–20 mapped the way SARS asks for them. Copy the figures onto eFiling, or print the return with the source invoices behind each box.
P&L and balance sheet
Real double-entry, not a spreadsheet dressed up as software. Profit, equity and cash that actually tie.
Debtors that get paid
Aged buckets, risk flags, promised dates, call list and customer statements. The report your Friday collection huddle actually uses.
Built for SA small business
March year-ends, Category A–E VAT periods, payments basis, ZAR, and copy your bookkeeper will recognise.
R59
- Unlimited invoices, bills and contacts
- Upload a statement from any South African bank
- VAT201 for Categories A–E, invoice or payments basis
- Profit & loss, balance sheet, aged debtors
- Tax invoices that satisfy section 20
What the others charge
- Sage Business CloudFrom ± R300–R1,000 / mo
- XeroFrom ± R400 / mo, plus payroll packs
- QuickBooksFrom ± R350 / mo
- A bookkeeper on ExcelYour Saturday, every Saturday
Els Books keeps the work the same — capture, rec, VAT, collect — and drops the price to a number a deli on Kloof Street can actually pay.