Keep KRA-Ready Sales Records Without a Notebook
AskBiz itemizes, timestamps and stores every sale automatically — so when it's time to deal with eTIMS or hand figures to your accountant, the records are already clean. No card machine, no spreadsheet rebuild at filing time.
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Since the KRA eTIMS (electronic Tax Invoice Management System) rules came in, a lot of small Kenyan business owners have been left unsure what's actually required of them, and worried about the penalties — up to KES 1 million — for getting it wrong. Many are still running the business out of a receipt book or a school exercise book, which is fine for remembering what was sold but a genuine nightmare to turn into the kind of clean, itemized record eTIMS registration and tax filing actually need. AskBiz doesn't file eTIMS invoices for you automatically — that submission step isn't built into the app yet — but it solves the harder half of the problem quietly, in the background: every single sale, from the moment you ring it up on your phone, is itemized, timestamped, and stored, ready to export or hand over whenever you need it.
Notebooks don't survive contact with a tax deadline
A paper record works fine day to day — you know roughly what you sold and what came in. The trouble starts when you actually need that data in a structured form: registering for eTIMS, filing VAT, or answering a KRA query about a specific week's sales. Reconstructing itemized, dated, priced records from handwriting after the fact is slow, error-prone, and stressful, especially if pages are missing or a helper's handwriting is hard to read months later. Business owners we've spoken to aren't confused about wanting to comply — they're confused about how to get from 'notebook' to 'proper digital record' without redoing months of work by hand.
Every sale is already structured — you just export it
There's no separate step where you 'do your records' at the end of the month. Every sale rung up in AskBiz — whether paid by M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN Mobile Money, cash or card — is saved immediately with the item, quantity, price, timestamp and payment method attached. Nothing needs re-typing. When you're ready to register for eTIMS, file VAT, or simply hand your accountant a clean set of figures, you export the period you need instead of piecing it together from memory or paper. It turns compliance from an end-of-month scramble into something that was quietly done for you all along.
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Built for business owners, not data scientists.
Item, price, quantity, timestamp and payment method are recorded the moment you ring up a sale — no manual entry after the fact.
Pull a clean sales record for a day, a month, or a custom period whenever you need it for filing or for your accountant.
Records live on your phone and sync to the cloud, so nothing depends on a notebook page surviving or being legible months later.
M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN Mobile Money, cash and card sales are all recorded the same clean way, with no separate reconciliation.
Every sale carries the exact time it happened, so there is never a guess about which day or week a transaction falls into.
Hand over an export instead of a stack of receipts — your accountant spends less time untangling and more time filing.
How it works
Ring up items with the camera or by tapping, take payment by M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, cash or card — nothing extra to do.
Item, quantity, price, time and payment method are saved automatically the moment the sale completes.
At filing time, or before an eTIMS registration step, export exactly the period you need in a few taps.
The export is clean and structured — ready for manual eTIMS entry or straight to whoever handles your filing.
Frequently asked questions
Stop reconstructing records at filing time
Every sale you ring up from today is already itemized and ready to export. No card required to start.
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