The life of a receipt

One receipt,
end to end.

Follow a single eTIMS receipt from a shop counter in Nairobi to a posted line in your books. Every check it passes, and what happens when one of them does not.

01Kenya, every day

Millions of receipts.Nobody can file them all.

Every eTIMS receipt carries a control unit number, a supplier PIN, a tax band and a signature. Every one of them has to end up in your books, and the penalties are counted one invoice at a time.

Unfiled1,284
RC·8841Naivas SupermarketKES 4,320
RC·8842Chandarana FoodplusKES 1,860
RC·8843Bidco Africa LtdKES 22,400
RC·8844Kenya PowerKES 9,120
02The cost of paper

They pile up.They fade. They vanish.

Paper backlogs. Month-end scrambles. One mistyped VAT line that surfaces years later in an audit, long after anyone remembers the purchase.

Unfiled1,284
RC·8841Naivas SupermarketKES 4,320overdue
RC·8842Chandarana FoodplusKES 1,860overdue
RC·8843Bidco Africa LtdKES 22,400
RC·8844Kenya PowerKES 9,120
03Capture

Point a phone.The paper stops mattering.

One pass reads the QR and photographs the receipt, with or without a signal. Nothing is typed, so nothing is mistyped. Captures queue on the phone and upload when a signal returns.

offline

Queued · syncs on reconnect

04Fill in

Every value,lifted into the open.

The QR gives up the supplier and the signature. KRA's verification page gives up the tax band, the VAT and the total. Both are laid out plainly, so a person can check them against the paper in their hand.

Read from the QR
CUIN
KE·24·0001234567
Supplier PIN
P051234567X
Tax band
B (16%)
VAT
KES 564.26
Total
KES 4,320.00
05Check

Weighed againstwhat KRA holds.

Agree and it moves on. Disagree, or come back with no KRA record at all, and it stops. Your accountant gets it with the field and the reason attached, and it is never quietly written into your ledger.

Validated against KRA

CUIN KE·24·0001234567 · schema v2.0

Held for review

total does not reconcile with VAT

Never posted. Routed to your accountant with the field named.

06Post

Chaos becomesa clean ledger.

Approved entries post to QuickBooks Online or Zoho Books as bills, with the supplier, category and tax code already mapped. Every CUIN is tracked, so nothing posts twice.

QuickBooks OnlineBills
Bill #0889KES 12,400
Bill #0890KES 1,860
Bill #0891KES 4,320

Naivas Supermarket Ltd · Food & Beverages · auto-mapped

Where the receipt ends up

Every receipt. Filed.

Rasmi is the layer between an eTIMS receipt and a clean book entry. Scan it, check it against KRA, approve it, post it. Nothing slips through on the way.