Bookkeeping software
Bookkeeping software in Nigeria that writes the books as you trade
Every sale, payment and receipt posts its own entry with the document attached. Bookkeeping software in Nigeria for people who would rather not rebuild a year of records in the week before it is due.
- Free plan to start
- VAT and WHT included
- Built for cash and transfers
Month closed
July
214 entries reconciled
Bookkeeping software in Nigeria that keeps the ledger current
Every sale, payment and expense posts as it happens, so the ledger reflects today rather than the last time somebody sat down with a spreadsheet.
Entries come from the work
Raising an invoice or receiving a payment writes the entry, with the document attached to it.
Matched, not retyped
Incoming payments match against what is owed, so your records and your balance agree on their own.
Reports whenever you want them
Profit and loss, balances and cash position built from the same entries, at any point in the month.
Profit and loss
August, to date
Revenue
₦8,412,600
Cost of sales
(₦5,180,200)
Gross profit
₦3,232,400
Operating expenses
(₦1,212,800)
Net profit
₦2,019,600
Current as of 3 minutes ago. Nothing was closed to produce it.
A close that is a review rather than a rebuild
The work that usually fills the first week of a month has already happened by the time you get there.
Nothing waiting to be entered
Transactions are already posted and categorised, so closing is checking rather than catching up.
A trail behind every figure
Each entry keeps its source document and who touched it, which is what turns a query into a two minute answer.
Your accountant sees the same thing
Give them their own access instead of exporting a file and answering questions about it for a week.
Reconciliation
This month
Matched automatically
1,284
Needs a decision
6
Unexplained
0
You review the six, not the one thousand two hundred and ninety
The parts imported software usually gets wrong
Bookkeeping is not a universal problem with a universal answer. These five decide whether a system is usable here or merely impressive in a demo.
- Tax your customer deducted before paying
- Corporate customers commonly withhold tax at source. The invoice arrives short, and in most systems it stays open forever. Here the deduction is recorded against that invoice, so the balance closes and the credit is kept as evidence.
- VAT at 7.5 percent, with real exemptions
- Set the rate per product and mark exempt items as exempt. The period total assembles itself from what you actually invoiced rather than from a percentage of turnover.
- Cash that never touched an account
- A large share of trading is still cash, and a ledger that only sees electronic money will never reconcile. Cash sales, cash purchases and the daily count post to the same place as everything else.
- Transfers with a narration that says nothing
- A payment described as three letters and a date tells you nothing about which invoice it settles. Invoices carry their own account numbers, so the money arrives already attached to what it pays for.
- Diesel, transport, levies and the rest
- Real operating costs that no imported chart of accounts anticipates. Categories are yours to set, so margin is measured against what running this business actually costs.
What is in it
Enough to run the books of a small or growing business without a second system, and without a bookkeeper on staff.
Automatic double entry
Every transaction posts both sides. You never have to decide which account takes which.
Documents on entries
The receipt, invoice or payslip sits on the entry it belongs to, not in a separate folder.
A chart of accounts you can shape
Start from a sensible default, then rename and add until it matches how you think about the business.
Live profit and loss
For the month, the quarter or the year, without closing the period first.
Balance sheet
What the business owns and owes, moved by the trading rather than typed in.
Cash position
Across your accounts and the cash on hand, as one figure you can act on.
VAT and WHT reporting
Period totals that trace back to the individual invoices behind them.
Accountant access
A role scoped to the books, a clean export, or both.
Books per location
Separate books per branch with a group view above them, on the same chart of accounts.
Who runs their books this way
Bookkeeping is the one category on this list that every business needs, so the useful question is which size you are and which tools feed it.
Businesses that need it
Free to start
The free plan covers five invoices and ten expenses a month, which is a full year of records for a lot of one-person businesses. Paid tiers begin only when your volume passes it.
- No setup fee
- No minimum contract
- Records exportable at any time
Questions about bookkeeping software in Nigeria
The questions that come up before anybody moves their books. If yours is not here, ask us directly.
What is the best bookkeeping software in Nigeria?
The honest test is not the feature list, it is whether the books stay current in a month when nobody has time. That means the entry has to be created by the transaction rather than typed afterwards, cash has to be treated as seriously as transfers, and tax deducted at source has to be recordable. Niimbu was built around those three, and there is a free plan so you can judge it against your own trading rather than against a demo.
Do I need an accountant if I use bookkeeping software?
For filing and for judgement calls, yes, and good software makes them cheaper rather than unnecessary. What changes is what you are paying them for: reviewing and advising rather than reconstructing twelve months from a carrier bag of receipts.
Can it handle VAT and withholding tax?
Yes. VAT is set per product and applied as you sell, then totalled for the period. Withholding tax deducted by a customer is recorded against the invoice it was deducted from, so the invoice closes at the right amount and you keep the evidence of the deduction.
Does it work if most of my sales are cash?
Yes, and this is where a lot of imported software falls down. Cash sales, cash purchases and the daily count all post to the same ledger as card and transfer payments, and the difference between expected and counted is shown at close rather than discovered at year end.
How is this different from a spreadsheet?
A spreadsheet is fine until two people need the same version on the same day, or until you need the receipt behind a figure from March. The entries here are created by the transaction and carry their document, and several people can be in the books at once without producing three versions of the truth.
Can my accountant get access?
Yes. Roles let you give an accountant or bookkeeper access to the books without exposing payroll, supplier pricing or anything else they do not need. Access is removed in one action when the engagement ends.
What does bookkeeping software cost in Nigeria?
Here it starts free, with no setup fee and no minimum contract. Paid tiers begin when your monthly volume passes the free limits, and the full plan comparison is on the pricing page.
Looking for something else?
Every one of these runs on the same record, so adding a second is a setting rather than another system to reconcile against the first.
Payroll software
Salaries, PAYE, pension and payslips on a schedule instead of a monthly spreadsheet.
CRM software
Customer history that belongs to the business rather than to one person's phone.
Business management software
Selling, stock, staff, spending and books on one record instead of five tools.
Inventory management software
Stock that moves as you sell, with reorder alerts before the shelf empties.
Invoicing software
Invoices raised in a minute, chased automatically, and settled against their own account number.
Expense management software
Receipts captured where the money is spent and filed against a category and a job.
Spend management software
Budgets, card limits and approvals that stop overspend before it happens.
POS software
A counter that logs every sale to a staff member and reconciles at shift close.
Online store builder
A storefront that sells from the same catalogue and stock as the counter.
Project management software
Tasks, costs and revenue against the job, so margin is known per contract.
HR software
One staff record behind hiring, roles, access, leave and the payroll run.
The simpler way to scale your business!
Start free and see it working today, or talk to us about pricing for teams and higher volumes.