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The third purchase — the one most Dakar buyers underestimate

Statutory accounts belong with your expert-comptable. Payroll belongs with a Senegalese specialist. What is left is the operations layer — what you hold, what you committed to, what it cost and who approved it — and that is the whole of what we sell.

Sound familiar?

If any of these ring true, you are exactly who this was built for.

Three purchases hiding in one word

A statutory ledger, a payroll engine and an operations system are entirely different products, and "un ERP" is used for all three. Buying the wrong one is the most common expensive mistake in this market.

Stock that lives on a road for a week

Cargo landing in Dakar for Bamako is neither in your warehouse nor at your customer for several days. Ask on a Tuesday how much you own in transit and you get a pause, a phone call and an estimate.

An accountant doing archaeology

Most of what an expert-comptable bills a smaller business for is establishing what happened — which receipt, whose approval, why the stock moved. That is not accounting, and you are paying professional rates for it.

Regional operations run as one country

The shared CFA franc removes the exchange rate between member states and nothing else. A combined figure across two tax jurisdictions adds up perfectly and means nothing administratively.

How teams get started

1

Separate the three purchases

Statutory ledger, payroll, operations. Decide which you actually need before any demo. Most organizations need two of the three and almost nobody needs all three from one vendor.

2

Settle the language question honestly

Our interface is English and prints in English. Test it at your least-trained site, not at head office, and ask two real customers how an English invoice would land. If it fails, buy locally and we will say so.

3

Write the handoff to your expert-comptable

What they receive, in what form, on what date — one page, agreed before go-live. It is the single highest-return hour of the whole implementation.

Frequently asked questions

Do you produce OHADA statutory accounts?

No. Our chart of accounts has no account-number field at all — accounts carry a name, a description and a debit or credit nature, and there are fourteen seeded by default. A numbered SYSCOHADA plan cannot be entered even manually, so a statutory presentation is impossible by construction. That is a deliberate design decision rather than an unbuilt feature. Your statutory books belong with a Senegalese accounting package or your expert-comptable; we hold the governed operational records they work from.

Is the interface available in French?

No. The interface is English only, there are no translation files in the product, and there is no setting waiting to be enabled — so this is not a roadmap answer dressed up as a limitation. Printed documents including invoices, purchase orders and delivery notes are produced in English. For many Senegalese businesses this is decisive, and we raise it in the first call rather than the third month. The honest test is to take a demo to your least-trained site and watch someone complete a real task unaided.

Does it handle CFA francs and Senegalese VAT?

Yes, both as built-in presets. The CFA franc is resolved automatically as the base currency from the organization's country, and everything is stored, invoiced, printed and reported in it — with no exchange rate anywhere inside the monetary union. A Senegalese value added tax rate ships as a maintained preset with net, tax and gross separated line by line on purchases as well as sales. Additional tax lines are configurable with their own rates and effective dates, but configured lines are yours to keep current. Confirm current rates with the DGID or your adviser.

Do you file anything with the DGID?

Nothing. We have no integration with the DGID and submit nothing on your behalf. Our only fiscal electronic invoicing integration anywhere is Kenya's eTIMS and it is Kenya-specific and not portable. Requirements in this region have been evolving, so confirm the current position, scope and timing with the DGID or your adviser rather than relying on any vendor's summary — and where an obligation applies to you, you will need a compliant solution from someone else alongside us.

Can you run Senegalese payroll?

Not as turnkey statutory payroll. IPRES, CSS, the income tax scale and sector collective agreements are not maintained calculations in our product — Kenya is our only market where statutory payroll works that way, because it is where we maintain the rules and carry the consequences. What does work is employee records, contracts, leave with balances, attendance, and posting payroll cost into projects and cost centres. The computation and declarations belong with a Senegalese payroll provider or your expert-comptable.

We run operations in Mali and Guinea from Dakar. Does that work?

The operational layer travels well, and the shared currency removes exchange rates between monetary union members entirely — no revaluation of intercompany balances and no translation adjustment on consolidation. What must be right is structure: country as a first-class attribute on every transaction, tax configured per country rather than copied because the currency matches, in-transit locations for stock on the corridor, and statutory books kept per entity locally. Confirm your entity structure with your adviser before configuring anything.

Should a small Dakar business buy this?

Often not, and we will tell you so. If your main need is statutory accounts and payroll and your operations are simple — one location, modest stock, a handful of suppliers — a local accounting package plus a payroll provider is the better purchase and an operations layer would be premature. We earn our place when the operational side carries the complexity: stock across locations or borders, procurement needing approval chains, assets to track, projects to cost, or funders who audit you.

Twenty minutes, and a straight answer

Tell us your working language, who keeps your books and whether you operate outside Senegal. That is usually enough for us to say yes or to point you at a local vendor.