The vicious cycle

Without records, no credit.
Without credit, no growth.

Kenya's small businesses are trapped between two systems that don't talk to each other. Paper ledgers can't unlock formal finance. Phone-data lenders can't see your real business.

What M-Penny does

Your books, your tax,
and what they prove.

One app for the three things that take a shopkeeper’s week — and they are the same three things a bank, a supplier or KRA will ask you about.

Keeps your books

Every sale, expense, payment and stock movement in one ledger — double-entry, without the double entry.

  • Payments become ledger rows as they arrive
  • Invoices, quotations and delivery notes
  • Stock, suppliers and what you are owed
  • Staff pay, leave and payslips
  • P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, for any period

Keeps you right with KRA

The return filled from your own books, on KRA’s own form — before the deadline rather than after it.

  • eTIMS at the point of sale
  • VAT, PAYE and income tax worked from the books
  • Deadlines that know what you actually owe
  • Nil returns flagged too — they still have to be filed
  • A CPA to check it — with filing by a Tax Agent opening soon

Turns records into proof

Books a lender, a supplier or a landlord will accept — and a picture of your trade that belongs to you.

  • Statements an accountant can sign off
  • A credit picture built from payments that actually arrived
  • Reconciliation that shows where two records disagree
  • Every figure traceable to its own document
  • Yours to export, whenever you want it
Inside the app

Built for the way
shopkeepers actually work.

Not a QuickBooks port — a tool that meets a kiosk where it is.

M-Pesa auto-sync

Every payment in or out becomes a double-entry ledger row. Tap to confirm, or let the engine categorise it.

Smart contracts

Draw a contract, send it to another merchant by number, and let them accept and sign — with optional AI drafting. Any deposit is paid straight to the person it is owed to. Free on Biashara; pay-per-use on Imarika.

eTIMS compliance

Each invoice filed with KRA as you issue it, once your eTIMS is connected. The mandate that worries other shops becomes part of making the sale.

Live credit score

Watch your score climb as your records get cleaner. It's gamified compliance — and it builds the record licensed lenders will read.

Editorial-grade reports

P&L, balance sheet, cash flow — exportable, accountant-readable, lender-acceptable.

Works when the network doesn't

Record a sale with no signal. Your books live on the device and reach your account the moment you are back — and anything still waiting is named, never silently dropped.

Share via WhatsApp

Send the invoice PDF, receipts and statements where your customers already are — WhatsApp included.

Your books are the
collateral you didn't know you had.

Start your 7-day free trial. Connect M-Pesa. Watch your credit score climb. When you're ready for capital, your record shows what you can repay.